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LOOKING AT PICTURES--a selection of Robert Walser's writings on art and artists, presents a little-known side of the eccentric Swiss genius: his great writings on art. His essays consider Van Gogh, Cezanne, Rembrandt, Cranach, Watteau, Fragonard,...

In 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage-set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural life of the city. Berlin Stories collects...

"The Lost Generation from Professor Michael Shelden evokes one of the most creative periods in American literature. Paris of the 1920's served as a base for such authors as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. In...

This book is a catalog that accompanied an exhibition of the same name at the Columbus Museum of Art.

Two of the world's most influential thinkers reflect on the value of equality and debate what citizens and governments should do to narrow the gaps that separate us. Ranging across economics, philosophy, history, and current affairs, Thomas...