"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English."--"The New Yorker"One week before her thirtieth birthday, the simple life of dutiful wife and mother Natalya is upended when the arrival of her son's charming new tutor unleashes a whirlwind of love, lust, and [...]

Because of their faith in the crucified Messiah, the Christian nations are indebted to Israel. Yet they have largely marginalized and even rejected God's chosen people. In this volume Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger reflects on a number of subjects and concerns common to both Christians and Jews - the [...]

Nature, History, State: 1933-1934 presents the first complete English-language translation of Heidegger's seminar 'On the Essence and Concepts of Nature, History and State', together with full introductory material and interpretive essays by five leading thinkers and scholars: Robert Bernasconi, Pet[...]

"No better guide over the thousand-year period called the Middle Ages could be found than Josef Pieper. In this tour de monde medievale, he moves easily back and forth between the figures and doctrines that made medieval philosophy unique in Western thought. After reflecting on the invidious implica[...]

The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973 c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture of her life as tutor and companion to the young Empress Shoshi. Told in a series of vignettes, it offers revealing glimpses of the Japanese imperial palace the auspicious birth of a prince, riva[...]

Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting. His album is filled with moving insights into the lives of those he encounters peasants and landowners, doctors an[...]

"Phenomenological Interpretations of Aristotle", the text of a lecture course presented at the University of Freiburg in the winter of 1921 and 1922, was first published in 1985 as volume 61 of Heidegger's collected works. Preceding "Being and Time", the work shows Heidegger attempting, through the [...]

Set in three households in Maputo, this is the story of how a South African conspiracy to infiltrate and destabilize Mozambique creates tragedy for ordinary people. It weaves together present events and past memories in the drama of a few short hours.[...]

Nedjma is a masterpiece of North African writing. Its intricate plot involves four men in love with the beautiful woman whose name serves as the title of the novel. Nedjma is the central figure of this disorienting novel, but more than the unfortunate wife of a man she does not love, more than the u[...]