Robert Pogue Harrison is Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature at Stanford. His latest book is Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition. (April 2013)
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A New Kind of Woman
April 25, 2013
The Lives of Margaret Fuller
by John Matteson
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
by Megan Marshall
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America: The Struggle to Be Reborn
October 25, 2012
The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States
by Mark Fiege, with a foreword by William Cronon
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The Book From Which Our Literature Springs
February 9, 2012
Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible
by Robert Alter
The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes
translated from the Hebrew and with commentary by Robert Alter
The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
by Timothy Beal
The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible
by Harold Bloom
Bible: The Story of the King James Version, 1611–2011
by Gordon Campbell
The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations
edited by Bart D. Ehrman and Zlatko Pleše
On Eagles’ Wings: The King James Bible Turns 400 edited by Liana Lupas
Manifold Greatness: The Making of the King James Bible
edited by Helen Moore and Julian Reid
Majestie: The King Behind the King James Bible
by David Teems
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The Faith of Harold Bloom
October 13, 2011
The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life
by Harold Bloom
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Saved by the Vision of Beatrice
May 26, 2011
La Vita Nuova
by Dante Alighieri, translated from the Italian by David R. Slavitt, with an introduction by Seth Lerer
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The Magic of Leopardi
February 10, 2011
Canti
by Giacomo Leopardi, translated from the Italian and annotated by Jonathan Galassi
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Emerson: The Good Hours
October 28, 2010
Selected Journals, 1820–1842
by Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Lawrence Rosenwald
Selected Journals, 1841–1877
by Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Lawrence Rosenwald
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A Great Conservationist, by Jingo
November 5, 2009
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
by Douglas Brinkley
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
by Timothy Egan
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The Ecstasy of John Muir
March 12, 2009
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
by Donald Worster

