"[This novel] is basd on the true life story of Hason al-Wazzan, the sixteenth-century traveller and writer who came to be known as Leo the Africanus, or Leo the African. From his childhood in Fez, having fled the Christian inquisition, through his many journeys to the East as a…
A fictional work in which a twenty-six-year-old Albert Einstein, working in a patent office in Switzerland, imagines possible worlds in which time works differently as he formulates his theory of relativity.
In 1905, Einstein publishes three important papers based on his dreams, each one with a different concept of time.
Introduction: the portrait of a voice -- Heterobiography and the utopia of man -- Heterobiography, violence, and the law -- The madness of the documentary and the aesthetics of the body -- The author? in theory, dead: heterobiography and responsibility -- The polluted swamp: het…
Barabbas is the acquitted; the man whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus of Nazareth, crucified upon the hill of Golgotha. Barabbas is a man condemned to have no god. "Christos Iesus" is carved on the disk suspended from his neck, but he cannot affirm his faith. He cannot p…
From Anchee Min, the author of the internationally bestselling memoir "Red Azalea"--The eagerly awaited sequel, in which she comes to America to find her way, her voice, and her love.
"When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months she was the most celebrated woman in the city. As a dancer, she shocked and delighted audiences; as a courtesan, she betwitched the era's richest and most powerful men. But as paronoia consumed a country at war, M…
