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Keeping the Faith

Summer Meditations

by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson


A Matter of Survival

October, Eight O'Clock

by Norman Manea, translated by Cornelia Golna and Anselm Hollo and Mara Soceanu Vamos and Max Bleyleben and Marguerite Dorian and Elliott B. Urdang


The Master Builder of Venice

The Sculpture of Jacopo Sansovino

by Bruce Boucher


‘He Doth Not Sleep’

The New Shelley: Later Twentieth-Century Views

edited by G. Kim Blank

Shelley's Poetry and Prose

edited by Donald H. Reiman, edited by Sharon B. Powers

The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts Volume XI: The Geneva Notebook of Percy Bysshe Shelley

transcribed and edited by Michael Erkelenz

Shelley's First Love: The Love Story of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Harriet Grove

by Desmond Hawkins

Love's Children

by Judith Chernaik

Shelley's Goddess: Maternity, Language, Subjectivity

by Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi

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On the Edge

Alma

by Gordon Burn


The New Inequality

The End of Equality

by Mickey Kaus


Blazing Passions

Red Sorghum

directed by Zhang Yimou (1987)

Horse Thief

directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang (1986)

The Big Parade

directed by Chen Kaige (1985)

Yellow Earth

directed by Chen Kaige (1984)

Raise the Red Lantern

directed by Zhang Yimou (1991)

Fists of Fury

directed by Lo Wei (1972)

Shanghai Blues

directed by Tsui Hark (1984)

Peking Opera Blues

directed by Tsui Hark (1986)

A Chinese Ghost Story

directed by Ching Siu-ting (1987)

A Better Tomorrow

directed by John Woo (1986)

Boat People

directed by Ann Hui (1982)

Rouge

directed by Stanley Kwan (1988)

Once Upon a Time in China

directed by Tsui Hark (1991)

A Touch of Zen

directed by King Hu (1975)

A Terra-Cotta Warrior

directed by Ching Siu-ting (1990)

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Revealing Bakhtin

Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics

by Gary Saul Morson and Caryl Emerson


Outing Mrs. Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt: Vol. 1, 1884–1933

by Blanche Wiesen Cook


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