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    On Settler Colonialism

    Adam Kirsch

    A prominent public intellectual tackles one of the most crucial political ideas of our moment

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    The Wounded Surgeon: Confessions and Transformations in Six American Poets

    Adam Kirsch

    This book reclaims the achievements of six American poets–Lowell, Bishop, Berryman, Jarrell, Schwartz, and Plath–by offering critical biographies of the poetry.

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    Invasions: New Poems

    Adam Kirsch

    In his second collection of poems, Adam Kirsch examines the world we live in now, a world in which the dangers of history have invaded the pleasures of private life…

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    The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature

    Adam Kirsch

    An essential exploration of a rich literary tradition from the Bible to modern times, by a rare literary authority (New York Times Book Review) and one of our keenest critics…

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    The Discarded Life

    Adam Kirsch

    A collection of moving and meditative poems that richly evoke a Gen X childhood in Los Angeles, exploring how our early recognitions shape our lives.

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    The Global Novel: Writing the World in the 21st Century

    Adam Kirsch

    What will 21st century fiction look like? Acclaimed literary critic Adam Kirsch examines some of our most beloved writers, including Haruki Murakami, Elena Ferrante, Roberto Bolano, and Margaret Atwood, to…

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    The Thousand Wells: Poems

    Adam Kirsch

    For 2002 The New Criterion Poetry Prize has been awarded to Adam Kirsch. His melodious verse renders the joys and sorrows of romantic love and the agonizing dialectics of American…

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    Jacob El Hanani

    Adam Kirsch

    The recent work of this New York-based artist who works with extraordinary painterly and calligraphic artistic detail.

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    The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century

    Adam Kirsch

    An erudite and accessible survey of Jewish life and culture in the twentieth century, as reflected in seminal texts.

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    The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century

    Adam Kirsch

    An erudite and accessible survey of Jewish life and culture in the twentieth century, as reflected in seminal texts.

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    The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature

    Adam Kirsch

    An accessible introduction to the classics of Jewish literature, from the Bible to modern times, by one of America’s finest literary critics (Wall Street Journal).

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    The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us

    Adam Kirsch

    From Silicon Valley boardrooms to rural communes to academic philosophy departments, a seemingly inconceivable idea is being seriously discussed: that the end of humanity’s reign on earth is imminent, and…

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    Why Trilling Matters

    Adam Kirsch

    Lionel Trilling, regarded at the time of his death in 1975 as America’s preeminent literary critic, is today often seen as a relic of a vanished era. In this book…

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    Who Wants to Be a Jewish Writer?: And Other Essays

    Adam Kirsch

    From one of today’s keenest critics comes a collection of essays on poetry, religion, and the connection between the two

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    The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry

    Adam Kirsch

    A collection of essays which survey the world of contemporary poetry. It scrutinises the reputation of poets such as Billy Collins and Sharon Olds and admires the achievements of writers…

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    Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas

    Adam Kirsch

    Essays from a great poet-critic-intellectual (Daily Beast).

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    Come and Hear - What I Saw in My Seven-and-a-Half-Year Journey through the Talmud

    Adam Kirsch

    A literary critic’s journey through the Talmud.

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    The Republic of Plato

    Allan Bloom,Adam Kirsch

    The best available English translation…. [It] compels intelligent readers to come to grips with what Plato actually wrote.‘ , American Political Science Review

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    Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling

    Lionel Trilling

    A great critic’s quarrels with himself and others, as revealed in his correspondence.

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    The Republic of Plato

    Allan Bloom

    The best available English translation…. [It] compels intelligent readers to come to grips with what Plato actually wrote.‘ , American Political Science Review

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    The Republic of Plato Lib/E

    The definitive translation of Plato’s Republic, the most influential text in the history of Western philosophyLong regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato’s Republic that has yet been published…

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    The Blessing and the Curse Lib/E: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century

    Adam Kirsch

    From the vast emigration of Jews out of Eastern Europe to the Holocaust to the creation of Israel, the twentieth century transformed Jewish life. The same was true of Jewish…

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    The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century

    Adam Kirsch

    An erudite and accessible survey of Jewish life and culture in the twentieth century, as reflected in seminal texts.

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    The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century

    Adam Kirsch

    An erudite and accessible survey of Jewish life and culture in the twentieth century, as reflected in seminal texts.

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    Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling

    Lionel Trilling

    A great critic’s quarrels with himself and others, as revealed in his correspondence.

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    Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling

    Lionel Trilling

    A great critic’s quarrels with himself and others, as revealed in his correspondence.

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    Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling

    Lionel Trilling

    A great critic’s quarrels with himself and others, as revealed in his correspondence.

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    Only Yesterday: A Novel

    S. Y. Agnon

    When Israeli Nobel Laureate S. Y. Agnon published the novel Only Yesterday in 1945, it quickly became recognized as a major work of world literature, not only for its vivid…

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    Irving Penn: Centennial

    Maria Morris Hambourg,Jeff L. Rosenheim

    The definitive book on the work of a virtuosic and revered American photographer

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    Primary Stein: Returning to the Writing of Gertrude Stein

    Following Gertrude Stein’s efforts throughout her life to shift the focus from her personality to her writing, these essays focus on her primary texts, including novels, plays, lectures, and poetry…

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    Primary Stein: Returning to the Writing of Gertrude Stein

    Following Gertrude Stein’s efforts throughout her life to shift the focus from her personality to her writing, these essays focus on her primary texts, including novels, plays, lectures, and poetry…

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    Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics

    Carissa Veliz, Adam Kirsch, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Ryan Ruby, Michael Walzer, David A. Bell, Emily Ogden, Stephen Darwall, Kian Tajbakhsh, Wendy Gan

    Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time. In this edition of Liberties: Carissa Veliz -…

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