Hell or High Winter...Because no one is listening.

Argues that cultural politics - specifically America’s often covert patronage of the arts - played a highly important role in the transfer of imperial authority from Britain to the United…

Catherine the Great ruled Russian from 1762 until her death in 1796. Her letters provide an intimate history of the Russian state as well as a portrait of her character…

Philip Roth has without doubt been one of the most important writers of fiction in the United States during the latter part of the twentieth century. This title collects essays…