Rembrandts son
Titus van Rijns mamma dör när han är ett år gammal, och pappa Rembrandts tålmodiga trolovade, tjänsteflickan Geertje, blir hans älskade nya mamma. Men det förblir inte alltid så. I ett atmosfärrikt tecknat Amsterdam, där ljud och dofter slår...
Libraries, Literatures, and Archives
Not only does the library have a long and complex history and politics, but it has an ambivalent presence in Western culture - both a site of positive knowledge and a site of error, confusion, and loss. Nevertheless, in literary studies and in the...
Fear
For many commentators, September 11 inaugurated a new era of fear. But as Corey Robin shows in his unsettling tour of the Western imagination--the first intellectual history of its kind--fear has shaped our politics and culture since time immemori...