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Zublinka Among Women
Zublinka is a beloved friend, author, and philosopher who, at the age of 70, lives a rich and varied life of the mind and spirit. The warm and witty novel shows that goodness is possible and seldom unalloyed.
Hsi-Wei Tales
After performing a perilous service for the future Emperor, the peasant Chen Hsi-wei turns down the customary rewards in favor of receiving an education. The Court is astonished by this unheard-of request, but orders the strict teacher Shen Kuo to do what he can with the boy. In the course of copying out the words of the ancient masters, Hsi-wei begins writing poems of his own. As a young man, Hsi-wei leaves the capital for a vagabond life, supporting himself by making straw sandals. He encounters people of all stations and occupations, trekking through landscapes both flat and mountainous. He learns of the terrible price of building the Grand Canal, the miseries caused by floods, droughts, and endless wars. To his astonishment, Hsi-wei gains a degree of fame, first as a curiosity, then as a writer whose poems are beloved by the people and pass into the vast life of China.
Heiberg's Twitch
Fiction. The fourteen stories in HEIBERG'S TWITCH were not selected for their resemblance to one another, but for their differences in character, tone, and form. The aim is to deploy imagination and invention to furnish tales about the variety of human conditions, the scope of thought, the diversity of experience. Settings range from a Scandinavian island to ancient Chinese courts, from the streets of Hyde Park in Boston to the galleries of midtown Manhattan, from Southern California to Eastern Europe, from Africa to South America—in one story, both continents at once. The stories are populated by schoolboys and poets, dictators and delinquents, college girls and composers, businessmen and scientists. Each tale conjures its own world, has its own language, aims to illuminate a distinct experience, a unique situation. Like human life, the stories in HEIBERG'S TWITCH are comic sad, pathetic, perplexing, and tragic.
The Decline of Our Neighborhood
The eleven stories in The Decline of Our Neighborhood provide further proof that Robert Wexelblatt is a writer of uncommon intelligence and verve. Unusual characters in strange circumstances struggle here for meaning and vision. Glnin, a writer, suddenly finds himself president of an unnamed republic. Katy Moffit, sometime comic and smart alec, takes on the sleepy town of Benton, Indiana. Appearances are also made by Ishl Teitelbaum, the Savior; "the famous courtesan Lucina", who visits the hermit Arnaud and falls in love; the Alpha Company Artists' Collaborative; Isaac Fehderflos, a well-known violinist, and improbably a second Isaac Fehderflos, who is not a violinist; and the astonishing Olmaler, painter in oils, better known as O'Malley, who does not want to live if he cannot paint - and means it. As always, Wexelblatt's stories are about both language and people. They enter the consciousness of the reader in surprising and moving ways. Readers who have not encountered Robert Wexelblatt's work are in for a treat. Those who already know him will be eager to see what's new in his delightful universe.
Other Places, Other Times
Other Places, Other Times is a collection of historical fictions. Half are set in Sui China, half in a variety of times and locations.
Losses
A single father who is a new IRS agent, his cherished and imaginative little girl, a divorced woman having second thoughts about motherhood, a couple who think two ways about becoming parents, a mysterious and crooked financial wizard — these are the people from whose relationships, enterprises, gains, and losses this story is woven. Has there been a crime and, if so, can the miscreant be caught? How valid are the claims of a father and a mother? When they clash, what becomes of their child?
The Posthumous Papers of Sidney Fein
A collection of essays by an imaginary author, compiled by an imaginary editor.
Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West
A collection of essays on Nathanael West's novel, Miss Lonelyhearts, arranged in chronological order of publication.
We Are Amphibians
We Are Amphibians tells the fascinating story of two brothers who changed the way we think about the future of our species. As a pioneering biologist and conservationist, Julian Huxley helped advance the Òmodern synthesisÓ in evolutionary biology and played a pivotal role in founding UNESCO and the World Wildlife Fund. His argument that we must accept responsibility for our future evolution as a species has attracted a growing number of scientists and intellectuals who embrace the concept of Transhumanism that he first outlined in the 1950s. Although Aldous Huxley is most widely known for his dystopian novel Brave New World, his writings on religion, ecology, and human consciousness were p...
How to Research Like a Dog
A provocative book that proposes a new and surprising inspiration for philosophy today—the canine thinker from Kafka’s story “Investigations of a Dog.” Written toward the end of Kafka’s life, “Investigations of a Dog” (Forschungen eines Hundes, 1922) is one of the lesser-known and most enigmatic works in the author’s oeuvre. Kafka’s tale of philosophical adventure is that of a lone, maladjusted dog who challenges the dogmatism of established science and pioneers an original research program in pursuit of the mysteries of his self and his world. In How to Research Like a Dog, Aaron Schuster uses the canine as a guide dog to rediscover Kafka’s fictional universe, while taki...
