1150 results for '"Johnson, Samuel'

Biology is often viewed today as a bipartisan field, with molecular level genetics guiding us into the future and natural history (including ecology, evolution, and conservation biology,) chaining us...

From the prolifically gifted Pamela Hansford Johnson, neglected peer of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark, comes "a maliciously witty account of literary skulduggery and lofty pretensions, set in...

From the mid-1960s, Samuel Beckett himself directed all his major plays in Berlin, Paris, or London. For most of these productions he meticulously prepared notebooks for his personal use. The...

'A unique and thrilling insight into the brilliant mind of Anne Lister' Sally Wainwright, creator of Gentleman JackFemale Fortune is the book which inspired Sally Wainwright to write Gentleman Jack,...

Seeking to re-imagine the meaning and significance of the international border, Opening the Floodgates makes a case for eliminating the border as a legal construct that impedes the movement of people...

What is the difference between right and wrong? This is no easy question to answer, yet we constantly try to make it so, frequently appealing to some hidden cache of cut-and-dried absolutes, whether...

The Renaissance holds an undying place in our imagination, its great heroes still our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Chaucer. This period of profound evolution in European thought...

The Sounds of Latinidad explores the Latino music scene as a lens through which to understand changing ideas about latinidad in the New South. Focusing on Latino immigrant musicians and their fans in...

A Smithsonian Book of the YearA Nature Book of the Year“Provides much-needed foundation of the relationship between museums and Native Americans.”―SmithsonianIn 1864 a US Army doctor dug up the...

Winner, 2025 Firecracker Awards Winner in Creative Nonfiction, given by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses Raised in a rural Oregon town plagued by poverty, the artist and writer Jaydra...

Looking at the Far East and American ambition in China through the lens of literature.In the imaginations of early Americans, the Middle Kingdom was the wealthiest empire in the world. Its...

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' "BEST COOKBOOKS OF 2023"NAMED ONE OF THE BEST FALL BOOKS BY EATER, FORBES, ROBB REPORT, PLATE, GARDEN & GUN, ANDREW ZIMMERN’S SPILLED MILK, DELISH, AND NY MAG’S THE...

Seeking to re-imagine the meaning and significance of the international border, Opening the Floodgates makes a case for eliminating the border as a legal construct that impedes the movement of people...

Recover from burnout by rediscovering your humanity. Everyone is vulnerable to burnout and anyone can succumb to its effects. Empty suggestions, like "just relax" or work sponsored resilience...

"The best (and the best written) book about Austen that has appeared in the last three decades."—Nina Auerbach, Journal of English and Germanic Philology "By looking at the ways in which Austen...

A classic of alternative biography and feminist writing, this empathetic and witty book gives due to a "lesser" figure of history, Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith, who was brilliant, unconventional, and...

The complete text of a never-before-published play by the distinguished author of Waiting for Godot introduces a play lost for more than forty years whose themes and characters prefigure many of...