4890 results for '"Douglas J. Brewer'

Writing with equal insight about New York City, Hollywood, and the small-town Pennsylvania world where he grew up, John O’Hara cultivated an unsentimental and often unsparing realism, aiming, he...

F. D. Maurice was a leading nineteenth-century theologian famous for founding the movement called Christian Socialism. In the first major reassessment of Maurice's work for many years, Jeremy Morris...

Timothy Warner, a PhD student who goes by the nickname "Moth," wakes up on his ninety-ninth day of sobriety with an intense craving for a drink. He immediately calls his uncle Ed, a former alcoholic...

In the title story of her taut new fiction collection, Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense, Joyce Carol Oates writes: Life was not of the surface like the glossy skin of an apple, but deep...

Longlisted for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award "Special Envoy is an exceedingly French spy thriller."--New York Times Book Review A dazzling satirical spy novel, part La Femme Nikita,...

Peace, many would agree, is a goal that democratic nations should strive to achieve. But is democracy, in fact, dependent on war to survive?Having spent their celebrated careers exploring this...

This book provides the first unified examination of the relationship between Radon transforms on symmetric spaces of compact type and the infinitesimal versions of two fundamental rigidity problems...

In the early nineteenth century, London publishers dominated the transatlantic book trade. No one felt this more keenly than authors from Ireland, Scotland, and the United States who struggled to...

Presents both versions of the screenplay John Huston commissioned Sartre to write about Freud and discusses the background of the work

The poetry of the Great War is among the most powerful ever written in the English language. Unique for its immediacy and searing honesty, it has made a fundamental contribution to our understanding...

According to Vasari, the young Michelangelo often borrowed drawings of past masters, which he copied, returning his imitations to the owners and keeping originals. Half a millennium later, Andy...

Murderers, crazed widows, beggars and betrayed women - these are the pitiful figures who appear throughout Wordsworth's early narrative poetry. Analysing Wordsworth's use of pathos, from the two...

A selection of poems utilizes images of childhood, biblical stories, fairy tales, and mythology to examine human relationships and provide an enlarging perspective on adult life