"The Other Bible presents a rare opportunity to discover the poetic and narrative riches of the early, ancient holy texts of Judeo-Christian literature that were excluded from the official canon of the Old and New Testaments, and to read firsthand their visionary discourses on the nature of God, hum[...]

Mao Zedong, leader of the revolution and absolute chairman of the People's Republic of China, was also a calligrapher and a poet of extraordinary grace and eloquent simplicity. The poems in this beautiful edition (from the 1963 Beijing edition), translated and introduced by Willis Barnstone, are exp[...]

The people we've come to call gnostics were passionate advocates of the view that salvation comes through knowledge and personal experience, and their passion shines through in the remarkable body of writings they produced over a period of more than a millennium and a half. Willis Barnstone and Marv[...]