The Publisher's Desk
The Publisher's Desk
On names.
On the reigning system of belief in the modern West.
On the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment.
On living through screens.
On honey in the Bible.
Envy is the seed of doubt planted in our admiration.
Benedict XVI: A Life Volume One: Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council 1927–1965
Peter Seewald
Bloomsbury, pp.512, $35.00
St. Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence, by Joseph de Maistre, edited and translated by Richard A. Lebrun
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, and Letters
Vladimir Nabokov
Vintage, pp.527, $18.00
Various (edited by
David M. Bethea and Siggy Frank)
Cambridge, pp.327, $26.00
Nabokov and the Real World: Between Appreciation and Defense
Robert Alter
Princeton, pp.232, $19.95
When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep, by Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold; The Book Of Sleep, by Haytham El Wadany (translated by Robin Moger); The Chinese Dreamscape: 300BCE – 800CE, by Robert Ford Company; Sleep In Early Modern England, by Sasha Handley
The Lost Worlds of John Ford: Beyond the Western, by Jeffrey Richards