On the last night of 1937
New York demanded fortitude
and art seeks to shift the immigration debate--now shaped by rancorous stereotypes and xenophobia--towards one rooted in humanity and justice
when the nation's westward expansion was bringing to a head the racial tensions that would result in the Civil War
This edition combines a clear and modern translation by John Davies with Tobias Reinhardt's fascinating introduction to Seneca's career
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places Buddhism On the last night of"I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind," writes Ursula Le Guin in her introduction to Dancing at the Edge of the World. But she has, and here is the record of that change in the decade since the publication of her last nonfiction collection, The Language of the Night. And what a mind strong, supple, disciplined, playful, ranging over the whole field of its concerns, from modern literature to menopause, from utopian