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Maurice Blanchot: A Critical Biography
by Christophe Bident, translated from the French by John McKeane
March 12, 2020 issue
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Robert Pogue Harrison teaches literature at Stanford. His latest book is Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age. (March 2020)
The Nothing Beyond Nothing
Maurice Blanchot: A Critical Biography
by Christophe Bident, translated from the French by John McKeane
March 12, 2020 issue
The Prophet of Envy
On the enduring relevance of René Girard’s thought to our social and political realities
Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard
by Cynthia L. Haven
Evolution and Conversion: Dialogues on the Origins of Culture
by René Girard, with Pierpaolo Antonella and João Cesar de Castro Rocha
Deceit, Desire, and the Novel
by René Girard, translated from the French by Yvonne Freccero
Violence and the Sacred
by René Girard, translated from the French by Patrick Gregory
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
by René Girard, translated from the French by Stephen Bonn and Michael Metteer
A Theater of Envy: William Shakespeare
by René Girard
Battling to the End: Conversations with Benoît Chantre
by René Girard, translated from the French by Mary Baker
December 20, 2018 issue
The True American
New books examine the many contradictions of Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau: A Life
by Laura Dassow Walls
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau, with an introduction and annotations by Bill McKibben
Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau
by Kevin Dann
Thoreau’s Animals
by Henry David Thoreau, edited by Geoff Wisner and illustrated by Debby Cotter Kaspari
Thoreau and the Language of Trees
by Richard Higgins, with a foreword by Robert D. Richardson and photographs by Richard Higgins
The Boatman: Henry David Thoreau’s River Years
by Robert M. Thorson
This Ever New Self: Thoreau and His Journal
an exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York City, June 2–September 10, 2017; and the Concord Museum, Concord, Massachusetts, September 29, 2017–January 21, 2018
When I Came to Die: Process and Prophecy in Thoreau’s Vision of Dying
by Audrey Raden
Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau
by Branka Arsić
Thoreau’s Wildflowers
by Henry David Thoreau, edited by Geoff Wisner and illustrated by Barry Moser
August 17, 2017 issue
Dante: He Went Mad in His Hell
Dante: The Story of His Life
by Marco Santagata, translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon
October 27, 2016 issue
Dante on Trial
Dante and the Limits of the Law
by Justin Steinberg
Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity
by Prue Shaw
February 19, 2015 issue
Dante: The Most Vivid Version
Inferno
by Dan Brown
Inferno
by Dante, translated from the Italian by Mary Jo Bang, with illustrations by Henrik Drescher
The Divine Comedy
by Dante, translated from the Italian by Clive James
October 24, 2013 issue
A New Kind of Woman
The Lives of Margaret Fuller
by John Matteson
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
by Megan Marshall
April 25, 2013 issue
America: The Struggle to Be Reborn
The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States
by Mark Fiege, with a foreword by William Cronon
October 25, 2012 issue
The Book From Which Our Literature Springs
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
February 9, 2012 issue
The Faith of Harold Bloom
The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life
by Harold Bloom
October 13, 2011 issue
Saved by the Vision of Beatrice
La Vita Nuova
by Dante Alighieri, translated from the Italian by David R. Slavitt, with an introduction by Seth Lerer
May 26, 2011 issue
The Magic of Leopardi
Canti
by Giacomo Leopardi, translated from the Italian and annotated by Jonathan Galassi
February 10, 2011 issue
Emerson: The Good Hours
Selected Journals, 1820–1842
by Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Lawrence Rosenwald
Selected Journals, 1841–1877
by Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Lawrence Rosenwald
October 28, 2010 issue
A Great Conservationist, by Jingo
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
November 5, 2009 issue
The Ecstasy of John Muir
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
by Donald Worster
March 12, 2009 issue
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