Arts, Literature and Humanities

Stoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that still inspires peo...

Born in Tehran in 1957, filmmaker Mohsen Ostad Ali Makhmalbaf grew up in the religious and politically charged atmosphere of the 1960s, and the Jun...

“Not writing is always a relief and sometimes a pleasure. Writing about what cannot be written, by contrast, is the devil’s own job.”In this unusua...

A fire broke out in the coal seams of their town years ago, and the flames are still smoldering underground. Margaret and Fritzi, the two sisters w...

This guidebook focuses on 25 buildings in Dhaka, representing different architecturalphases since the Mughal era, beginning in the early 17th centu...

The English language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the...

Discover the city of Jaipur, Rajasthans capital. Founded on the XVIII century by the Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh and planned according to Indian Vastu...

Bangladesh in 1971 showed vividly and terribly, the deadly effects of war. Piles of corpses, torture cells, ash and destruction everywhere in the w...

A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, is a comedy about four noble lovers who join the beggar community for a pastoral life of dance and song. Or is...

The connections between race and sexuality are constant in our lives, yet they are not often linked together in productive, analytical ways. This ...

Hasan Azizul Huq is known for his stories that bring a powerful social consciousness to bear on the lives of ordinary people in contemporary Bangla...

Red Blooms in the Forest

John Kerrigan is one of the foremost critics of English literature. This richly informed collection brings together his essays on such major figure...

Banaphool which means wildflower was the pen name of beloved Bengali writer Balaichand Mukhopadhyay (1899–1979). Wildfire brings together forty-fi...

Fantasy Fictions from the Bengal Renaissance presents two masterpieces of Bengali literature by Rabindranath Tagore’s nephews, Abanindranath Tagore...

Known for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, Laszlo Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generation and the winn...

"For more than half a century, James D. Hart's The Oxford Companion to American Literature has been an unparalleled guide to America's literary cul...

Friendship as Social Justice Activism brings together academics and activists to have essential conversations about friendship, love and desire as ...

Few writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878–1956) has seen in r...

In this novel from esteemed political writer Tariq Ali, a father, Vlady, loses his job when he refuses to renounce socialist beliefs in the newly u...

This book brings together sixteen comic artists, all women, from India and Germany to explore how women see the world and themselves, and how that ...

This magnificent, sprawling novel, a classic of Hindi literature, spans almost an entire century in the lives of several families and generations o...

It’s Berlin in the summer of 2003 sunshine for weeks on end, weather to fall in love. And that’s just what Christian Eich, the main character in Ul...

“Tarkovsky for me is the greatest,” wrote Ingmar Bergman. Andrey Tarkovsky only made seven films, but all are celebrated for its striking visual im...

In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By calling into question the c...

Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theo...

Psychology of Sex and Gender is an engaging and empirical text that not only introduces students to foundational (i.e., historical/contextual) unde...

Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein. Few can be said to have had as broad an impact on European art in the twentieth century as these two cultural gia...

A rumour that ends in calamity; A girl who is demonised because of her ‘evil’ horoscope; A man who preys upon young girls; A train journey that for...

The Complete SketchUp Companion for Interior Design focuses on the skills and requirements necessary to design and explore interiors―from composing...

‘Deepa Agarwal’s writing stands up against women’s marginalization with rare artistry.’ — K. Satchidanandan‘Some stories begin at the beginning and...

Set against a rural backdrop of 20th century Bengal, the story of Bipradas (1935) revolves around the life and family of the central protagonist Bi...

Sadhana: The Realisation of Life *Sadhana* is a concise introduction to the spiritual heritage of ancient India by Rabindranath Tagore. With chapte...

Stray Birds, consisting of epigrams and short verses, has two sources. The first source is Kanika (literally, fragments) published in 1899. Most of...

In the Shadow of the Devi Kumaon: Of a Land, a People, a Craft

A young woman who has been living abroad returns to her hometown of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. Her sister Ines a beautiful, impetuous painter wh...

Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science,...

Gayatri chakravorty spivak’s ethics and politics in Tagore, Coetzee and certain scenes of teaching attempts to track the ‘literary’ in the producti...

The poems in this new volume by Abdourahman A. Waberi are introspective and inquisitive, reflecting a deep spiritual bond with words, with the hist...

This lyrical novel tells the story of a young man living in Egypt in the 1990s, a time of great turmoil. We see student riots at Cairo University, ...

Austrian poet and playwright Ernst Jandl died in 2000, leaving behind his partner, poet Friederike Mayrocker and bringing to an end a half century ...

The poems of Ulrike Almut Sandig are at once simple and fantastic. This new collection finds her on her way to imaginary territories. Thick of It c...

This lyrical novel, set in the surroundings of the Palestinian village of Zakariyya, weaves a narrative rich in sensory detail yet troubled by the ...

“Think of the vicious wit of Virginia Woolf, laced with the tender melancholia of Hélène Cixous, spiked with the subtle eroticism of Anaïs Nin.” —...

Christa Wolf tried for years to find a way to write about her childhood in Nazi Germany. In her 1976 book Patterns of Childhood, she explained why ...

Arwa Salih was a member of the political bureau of the Egyptian Communist Workers Party, which was founded in the wake of the Arab–Israeli War and ...

PRAISE FOR: “Agnihotri draws you in with her well fleshed out characters. Their dreams, idiosyncrasies and disappointments are all too real; as ar...

As speaking animals, we continuously make use of an unassuming grammatical particle, without suspecting that what is at work in its inconspicuousne...