Who sets language policy today? Who made whom the grammar doctor? Lacking the equivalent of l'Academie francaise, we English speakers must find our own way looking for guidance or vindication in sourc
Homer's epic about the horrors and heroism of the final year of the Trojan War is one of Western literature's most enduring and moving tales. Joe Sachs, whose translations are known for being faithful
Heidegger's Being and Time (1927) challenged earlier thinking about the basic structures of human being, our involvement in practical affairs, and our understanding of history, time, and being. Mark B
To mark Eva Brann’s fiftieth year on the faculty of St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, twenty-three of her colleagues, friends, and former students have contributed essays, poems, and artwork
In A Parkinson’s Primer, John Vine starts where his education about Parkinson’s began, with his diagnosis at the age of sixty of Parkinson’s disease. With candor A Parkinson’s Primer describes the sym
"At the crossroads of the Eastern and Western worlds, Salonica—now Greece's third largest city, Thessaloniki—was an oasis in a desert of conflicting powers and interests. A Turkish territory until 19
“Oh, what a delightful book! This is the clearest explanation of relativity available—and the most fun. It’s great to have it available again. Whether or not you’re a scientist, you will relish this b
In Feeling Our Feelings, Eva Brann considers what the great philosophers on the passions and feelings have thought and written about them. She examines the relevant work of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoic
Peter Kalkavage’s The Logic of Desire: An Introduction to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit guides the reader through Hegel’s great work. Given the book’s legendary difficulty, one may well ask, “Why ev
John Keats is among the greatest English poets. (He himself imagined he would be counted so!) For some readers, his odes define the essence of poetry. We also discover in Keats a great composer of sonnets. Here, for the first time published in a separate edition, are all sixty-four sonnets, the first written when Keats was eighteen, the last just five years later. Reading these poems, you'll experience the wonder of Keats's growing poetic powers; you'll feel the "shock of recognition" when you come upon the great ones. Presented with an introduction by Edward Hirsch, and accompanying explanatory notes, the sonnets stand out as a triumph of their own."Between 1814 and 1819, John Keats wrote sixty-four sonnets. He was eighteen years old when he composed his first sonnet; he was turning twenty-four when he completed his last one. He restlessly experimented with the fourteen-line form and used it to plunge into (and explore) his emotional depths. You can sit down and read these poems in a
These stories, ten in all, take place in Ireland, New York City and Washington, D.C., and Virginia, Texas, and Colorado. The characters represent the various stages of man—from boyhood and youth to th
“A delightfully literary and eclectic memoir about the manifold joys of birding.”—The Bloomsbury ReviewAll around the world, birds are the subject of intense, even spiritual, fascination, but relative
This original, intellectually ambitious, beautifully written meditation on 20th-century German history is viewed through the prism of one family's story. The story begins after World War I with Andrea
An entertaining and adventurous story of discovery, this historical rendering presents the Japanese experience of American culture based on the records and travelogues of Japanese envoys sent to the U
“This inspiring guide includes places everyone means to go to some day, all described with the usual clarity of the author of On Writing Well.”—The New York Times“A fascinating take on ‘the search for
"Experiencing a change of aspect is characterized by our recognition that something has altered and nothing has altered." —from Fat WednesdayIn Fat Wednesday, John Verdi probes how the inexplicable co
