Bright Air Black
In brilliant poetic prose Bright Air Black brings us aboard the ship Argo for its epic return journey across the Black Sea from Persia's Colchis - where Medea flees her home and father with Jason, the Argonauts, and the Golden Fleece. Vann's reima...
Legend of a Suicide
Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a .44 magnum to his head and commits suicide on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that moment, gripped by its memory and the shadow it...
De som inte vann
Mathieu tittade överväldigad ut över publikhavet. Han rättade till glasögonen och klickade i foten i pedalen. Trots en lugn fasad skakade han inombords. Han var framme vid sina drömmars mål Tour de France. I sällskap av tjugotvå lag fyllda med för...
Burden of Southern History
C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the interrelated themes of southern identity, southern distinctiveness, and the strains of irony that ch...
Vann Nath: Painting the Khmer Rouge
The true story of the Cambodian painter Vann Nath, who used his art to fight against barbarism and tyranny. In 1978, a young painter named Vann Nath was arrested by the Khmer Rouge, the violent and totalitarian Communist Party of Kampuchea that ru...
