5061 results for '"David Smith'

Finalist for the National Book Award for PoetryWinner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection“[Smith's] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy.”—The...

FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRYFINALIST FOR THE 2021 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR POETRYDanez Smith is our presidentHomie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the...

First published in 1776, the year in which the American Revolution officially began, Smith’s Wealth of Nations sparked a revolution of its own. In it Smith analyzes the major elements of political...

This is the first full-length survey of one of the leading playwrights of the postwar generation. Through his career as playwright, filmmaker, and director, David Hare has been at the forefront of...

Stevie Smith is among the most popular British poets of the twentieth century. Her poem "Not Waving but Drowning" has been widely anthologized, and her life was celebrated in the classic movie Stevie...

Nietzsche and Heidegger saw in modernity a time endangered by nihilism. Starting out from this interpretation, David Levin links the nihilism raging today in Western society and culture to our...

Tracing a remarkably varied career, this monograph on the painter David Diao follows his stylistic evolution--from abstraction to genre-defying and candid self-exploration. This book accompanies the...

Adam Smith’s masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern...

V. 1. Its Story To The Reformation -- V. 2. From The Reformation To The Eighteenth Century -- V. 3. From The Eighteenth Century To The First World War. David L. Edwards. Includes Bibliographical...

No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores...

In this sweeping work of memoir and commentary, leading cultural critic Paul Chaat Smith illustrates with dry wit and brutal honesty the contradictions of life in "the Indian business." Raised in...

A groundbreaking account of the Secret Gospel of Mark, one of the most hotly debated documents in Christian historyIn 1958, at the ancient Christian monastery of Mar Saba just outside Jerusalem,...

How writers after Adam Smith helped shape our thinking about economics and politicsFew issues are more central to our present predicaments than the relationship between economics and politics. In the...

David Harvey tackles Marx's notebooks that have spawned wide-ranging and raging controversiesWhen leading scholar of Marx, Roman Rosdolsky, first encountered the virtually unknown text of Marx’s...

How nineteenth-century “disciplines of attention” anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being “spiritual but not religious”Today, we’re driven to distraction, our attention...

“Tracy K. Smith’s poetry is an awakening itself.” —VogueCelebrated for its extraordinary intelligence and exhilarating range, the poetry of Tracy K. Smith opens up vast questions. Such Color: New and...

From the author of The Penguin State of the World Atlas, an essential tool for understanding the modern Middle EastThe Middle East is in a constant state of change, and understanding it has never...

Guest edited by Terence Winch—NEA Fellow and editor of the “pick of the week” on the Best American Poetry blog—the 2025 edition marks a poignant farewell to series editor David Lehman, celebrating...

An Amazon Best Book of 2015, A Kirkus Reviews' Best Book of 2015 "A brave book with beautiful sentences on every page."--New York Times "Piercing...a tour de force."--Los Angeles Times In 2000,...

David Rabe, the Tony award-winning playwright of Hurlyburly and In the Boom Boom Room, brings his intense vision to the world of fiction, with a short story collection of astonishing range and...