This book is a passionate call for citizen action to uphold the rule of law when government does not. Arguing that post-9/11 legislation and foreign policy severed the executive branch from the will
Shakespeare’s sonnets are indisputably the most enigmatic and enduring love poems written in English. They also may be the most often argued-over sequence of love poems in any language to date. But wh
Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is th
The author of the landmark study The Body in Pain, Elaine Scarry offers a stunning and original analysis of the “claim of emergency” that modern governments have used to undermine democracy and increa
In Thinking in an Emergency, renowned social theorist Elaine Scarry examines one of the most troubling political issues of our time: the "claim of emergency" that modern governments use to undermine
Renowned scholar Elaine Scarry's book, The Body in Pain, has been called by Susan Sontag "extraordinary...large-spirited, heroically truthful." The Los Angeles Times called it "brilliant, ambitious, a
During his impeachment proceedings, Richard Nixon boasted, “I can go into my office and pick up the telephone and in twenty-five minutes seventy million people will be dead.” In this incisive, masterf
Dreaming by the Book explores the almost miraculous processes by which poets and writers teach us the work of imaginative creation. Writers from Homer to Heaney instruct us in the art of mental compos
A fascinating case for the identity of Shakespeare’s beautiful young manShakespeare’s sonnets are indisputably the most enigmatic and enduring love poems written in English. They also may be the most
The scientific research literature on memory is enormous. Yet until now no single book has focused on the complex interrelationships of memory and belief. This book brings together eminent scholars fr
“Elaine Scarry’s consistently radical way of posing essential questions redirects inquiry in the most valuable ways, a tribute to a disciplined and erudite imagination put almost exclusiv
