An intimate look inside Plymouth Plantation that goes beyond familiar founding myths to portray real life in the settlement-the hard work, small joys, and deep connections to others beyond the shores of Cape Cod Bay.0The English settlement at Plymouth has usually been seen in is…
A new history of German literature
You've probably seen it before: a human brain dramatically lit from the side, the camera circling it like a helicopter shot of Stonehenge, and a modulated baritone voice exalting the brain's elegant design in reverent tones. To which this book says: Pure nonsense. In a work at o…
The widespread belief that Spain and Morocco are joined through their Andalusi past from a time when Christians, Muslims, and Jews coexisted in medieval Iberia actually arose in the 1800s, as Spain's justification for colonizing Morocco. Eric Calderwood shows how a piece of Span…
In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. In Part 1, Benjamin is represented by two …
This volume offers extensively annotated translations of essays from 1927 through 1930, years of profound political and cultural transition.
Volume 2, part 2 contains, in addition to the important longer essays ("Franz Kafka," "Karl Kraus," and "The Author as Producer") the extended autobiographical meditation "A Berlin Chronicle"; extended discussions of the history of photography and the social situation of the Fre…
This volume offers extensively annotated translations of essays that are key to Benjamin's rewriting of the story of modernism and modernity, as well as a diary from 1938 and penetrating studies of Bertolt Brecht, Franz Kafka and Eduard Fuchs.