Arts and Culture

Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain and Europe as well as America, this book shows how the imminence and outbreak of World War II ignited the imaginations…

Born in Shor-Tyube, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, in 1951, Dungan ethnographer and creative writer Ali Dzhon is widely regarded as the preeminent writer on the material and spiritual culture and…

A riveting history and maritime adventure about the shipwreck Vrouw Maria and the priceless masterpieces destined for Catherine the Great. Pegasus Books (2020) View book…

From awkward schoolgirl to Caterer to the Stars, Mary Giuliani weaves together a collection of hilarious memories, from professional growing pains to her long journey to motherhood, never…

Australia is a top vacation destination. Many people are daunted by the long flight and particularly Americans, often with only two weeks vacation, wonder where to start when…

Edward Gibbon once attributed to the rise of Christianity in Rome to the group’s “intolerant zeal.” This book, already being praised by scholars, offers a new, radically different perspective…

Known for her beauty and angelic voice, Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, la Belle Creole, was a Cuban-born star of early nineteenth-century Parisian society. Moving from colonial Cuba…

Finite Transcendence: Existential Exile and the Myth of Home argues the universality of the realization of finitude in the experience of exile, positing “faith” and “exile” as fundamental…

Just as often as superheroes journey into the afterlife, they also return from it. Their surprising immortality has created its own set of storytelling rules and expectations; it…

A portrait of daily life during the “Fall of Rome,” told from the harbor town at Ostia. Cambridge University Press (2013) View book listing >…