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The Two Solzhenitsyns

The Oak and the Calf: Sketches of Literary Life in the Soviet Union

by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, translated by Harry Willetts


Art of a Nasty Time

Nazi art showed how certain already prevalent German traditions and characteristics could be harnessed to the Nazi cause. What is more, they recalled corresponding features in the art of other countries—the kind of tame classicism, flashy Italianate portraiture, sub-Barbizon rusticity, and lumpy earthiness that could be found also in London, Rome, Paris, and New York.

Art in the Third Reich

by Berthold Hinz, translated by Robert Kimber and Rita Kimber


The Crime of Reform

David Rothman’s case against our inherited system for treating criminals, juvenile delinquents, and the mentally ill.

Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America

by David J. Rothman


Perfectly Clear

The Real War

by Richard Nixon


Life Among the Ninnies

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume Seven (1966-1974)

edited and with a preface by Gunther Stuhlmann


The Iranian Revolution

Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution

by Michael M.J. Fischer

The Rise and Fall of the Shah

by Amin Saikal

The Fall of the Shah

by Fereydoun Hoveyda, translated by Roger Liddell


Rats or Cheese?

Faith, Reason, and the Plague in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany

by Carlo M. Cipolla, translated by Muriel Kittel

The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

by Carlo Ginzburg, translated by John Tedeschi and Anne Tedeschi


The Poets’ Greece

Twenty Contemporary Greek Poets

edited by Dino Siotis and John Chioles

The Sovereign Sun: Selected Poems

by Odysseus Elytis, translated by Kimon Friar

The Axion Esti

by Odysseus Elytis, translated by Edmund Keeley and George Savidis

Angelos Sikelianos: Selected Poems

translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard

Poems

by George Seféris, translated by Rex Warner

Scripture of the Blind

by Yannis Ritsos, translated by Kimon Friar and Kostas Myrsiades

Ritsos in Parentheses

translated by Edmund Keeley

The Fourth Dimension: Selected Poems of Yannis Ritsos

translated by Rae Dalven

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One Man’s Milton

Poet of Exile: A Study of Milton's Poetry

by Louis L. Martz


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