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The Craft of Poetry
A Primer in Verse
A wonderfully accessible handbook to the art of writing and reading poetry—itself written entirely in verse How does poetry work? What should readers notice and look out for? Poet Lucy Newlyn demystifies...
Goering's Man in Paris
The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World
A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world "[Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a personality and axis point from which to explore a...
Why the New Deal Matters
A look at how the New Deal fundamentally changed American life, and why it remains relevant today"The New Deal was America's response to the gravest economic and social crisis of the twentieth century. It now...
The Wondering Jew
Israel and the Search for Jewish Identity
A celebrated Israeli author explores the roots of the divide between religion and secularism in Israel today, and offers a path to bridging the divide"A thoughtful social, political, and philosophical...
Invisible Ink
A Novel
Patrick Modiano explores the boundaries of recollection in a "mesmerizing, enigmatic novel" (Publishers Weekly)“Nobel Prize winner Modiano’s title smartly ties together the theme, plot, and...
Americans in Spain
Painting and Travel, 1820-1920
The art and culture of Spain significantly influenced many of America’s most renowned 19th- and 20th-century artists. Mary Cassatt visited the country early in her career and first garnered the attention of the French...
Intentions in Great Power Politics
Uncertainty and the Roots of Conflict
Why the future of great power politics is likely to resemble its dismal past Can great powers be confident that their peers have benign intentions? States that trust each other can live at peace; those that mistrust...
Founding God’s Nation
Reading Exodus
In this long-awaited follow-up to his 2003 book on Genesis, humanist scholar Leon Kass explores how Exodus raises and then answers the central political questions of what defines a nation and how a nation should govern itself...
Unrevolutionary Mexico
The Birth of a Strange Dictatorship
An essential history of how the Mexican Revolution gave way to a unique one-party state In this book Paul Gillingham addresses how the Mexican Revolution (1910-1940) gave way to a capitalist dictatorship of...
Scots and Catalans
Union and Disunion
A landmark account that reveals the long history behind the current Catalan and Scottish independence movements A distinguished historian of Spain and Europe provides an enlightening account of the...