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Beginning with O
Imaginative and uninhibited, Beginning with O is the 72nd volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets This is a book of letting go, of wild avowals, of unabashed eroticism; at the same time it is a...
The Solace Is Not the Lullaby
Jill Osier’s poems of quiet attention comprise this 114th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, called "stunning" by Kimberly Burwick in OrionThe hollow more than shape is certain. The...
(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love
Gender and Aspirational Labor in the Social Media Economy
An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to “make it” in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid work Profound transformations in our digital society have...
The Midrash on Psalms
The Midrash is a succession of homilies concerned with the recurrence or comparison of words and situations in the Scriptures as a means of bringing forth their contents. Compiled by Jewish rabbis since 200 A. D., its...
The Code of Maimonides (Mishneh Torah)
Book 8, The Book of Temple Service
This translation of the Eighth Book of the Code of Maimonides describes the architectural form of King Solomon’s Temple and the sacrificial worship conducted by the ancient priesthood. The temple service and priestly...
In Bluebeard's Castle
Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture
“Four impressive lectures about the culture of recent times (from the French Revolution) and the conceivable culture of times to come.” –New Yorker "An all too convincing diagnosis of what is...
The Code of Maimonides (Mishneh Torah)
Book Two, The Book of Love
The code of Maimonides (1138–1204) is one of the most famous and important writings in Hebrew since the Bible. This masterful translation of the second book of the code, The Book of Love, deals primarily with laws...
The Mishnah
A New Translation
The eminent Judaica scholar Jacob Neusner provides here the first form-analytical translation of the Mishnah. This path-breaking edition provides as close to a literal translation as possible, following the syntax of...
Tolstoy or Dostoevsky
An Essay in the Old Criticism, Second Edition
George Steiner's Tolstoy or Dostoevsky has become a classic among scholars of Russian literature. An essay in poetic and philosophic criticism that bears mainly on the Russian masters, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky...
Edward I
Edward I—one of the outstanding monarchs of the English Middle Ages—pioneered legal and parliamentary change in England, conquered Wales, and came close to conquering Scotland. A major player in European diplomacy and war, he...