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Super Gay Poems
A major poet and literary critic leads an aesthetic adventure through poems about queer experience, by writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, nonbinary, gender fluid, and more. A groundbreaking anthology edited by...
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Dreaming Reality
A cutting-edge neuroscientist and a leading clinical psychologist look to religious, mystical, and mind-altering experience to challenge scientific orthodoxies concerning consciousness. We are nothing but a pack of neurons, Francis Crick...
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A Fractured Liberation
A poignant return to Korea's forgotten "Asian Spring"-a moment ripe with possibility denied by the postwar US military occupation. When Japanese imperial rule ended in August 1945, the Korean peninsula erupted with hopes that had been...
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Kant
A foremost Kant expert takes us on a lively tour through the revolutionary ideas of the founder of modern philosophy. Immanuel Kant is undoubtedly the most important philosopher of the modern era. His Critique of Pure Reason,...
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This Craft of Verse
"A wondrously limpid testament to the pleasures of reading." -Steven Poole, The Guardian Six incandescent lectures on literature from the patron saint of mirrors, metafiction, and infinite libraries. For more than thirty years, Jorge...
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
"Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous." -The Atlantic One of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time gives a master class on the philosophy of fiction. Umberto Eco was fond of pointing out that all writing is...
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The Shape of Content
"The clearest, most forceful statement on art by an artist of our time that I have read." -Frank Getlein, New Republic An illustrated guide to artistic creation from one of the twentieth century's most provocative and expressive...
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Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
Timeless lessons on the pleasures of listening, the dilemmas of composition, and the meaning of artistic freedom from a founder of musical modernism. In October 1939, Igor Stravinsky took the stage at Harvard not as a conductor but as a...
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The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery
A landmark account of the origins of American slavery, revealing how ancient Roman ideas were used to defend the establishment of a slave empire in the English Atlantic world. The period from 1550 to 1700 was critical in the development...
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The Highest Exam
Combining personal narratives with decades of research, a vivid account of how the gaokao-China's high-stakes college admissions test-shapes that society and influences education debates in the United States. Each year, more than ten...
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Other Traditions
"An entertaining and shrewd little book ... Ashbery is an accomplished raconteur." -Charles Simic, New York Review of Books The most influential American poet of his generation appraises the lesser-known writers who shaped his own...
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