The author's look at Icelandic sagas is aimed beyond academic circles to inquiring readers of…
Author: John L. Murphy
Beast: by Paul Kingsnorth
Part of a projected trilogy, Beast dramatizes the plight of a refugee caught within chaos.
Look Blue Go Purple: Still Bewitched
Still Bewitched makes the claim for Look Blue Go Purple to ascend the Flying Nun…
The Kingdom: by Emmanuel Carrère
Compares St. Paul's fervor to Philip K. Dick's fictional and autobiographical immersions into altered reality.
October: by China Miéville
"The question for history is not only who should be driving the train, but where."
Rediscover: Rollerskate Skinny
The quartet brought an ambition rivaling the Beatles to their two albums.
The Religion of the Future: by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
The Religion of the Future encourages emancipation from the mediocre aims of liberal democracy.
The End of Imagination: by Arundhati Roy
These 21 selections allow a wider audience access to a woman bent on confronting the…
Looking to Heaven: Volume 1: by Stanley Spencer
Volume one commences with Spencer's recollections of his youth
Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol: by Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
Takes up the conversion of the Buddha "from stone to flesh" as the statues and…