Shows the surprising ways T. S. Eliot's work sheds light on—and proves useful to—the contemporary struggle for a freer and more just world.

Inspiring stories of six US presidents and the distinctive leadership characteristics that set them apart and transformed America.

The story of Woodstock, N.Y., over the last 100 years and how a small, rural town coped with the many challenges of changing times.

An approachable and readable translation of a classic work of Chinese literature and landmark work of non-Western fiction writing.

Cooper's 1846 novel about the Anti-Rent Wars in upstate New York, now available in a scholarly edition.

Provides a fascinating and in-depth look into the life, career and legacy of one of the most important New Yorkers of the Gilded Age.

A groundbreaking study of Farid al-Din ʿAṭṭār, one of Persian literature's greatest poets.

Poems that chronicle an exiled speaker's battle with family-imposed religious dogma, their quest for acceptance, and their journey towards self-discovery through biblical language, surrealism, and absurdism.

Explores the remarkable range of artists who have worked in Woodstock, New York for over a century.

Prose poems that chronicle the eschatological age in which we live.

Renowned poets and scholars address the question of how poetry sounds and signifies in different contexts.

The facts and legends of New York's famed artistic hub told by one of its key participants.

Poems that step up to our world's disasters, level with its possibilities, and interrogate faith, justice, militarism, madness, and the joy of intimate relationships.

The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.

Poignant and vulnerable essays that weave together seemingly disparate themes of wild places and mountain stewardship, books and reading, and building a new life after loss.

The neglected small group swing sound of the 1940s–60s takes its place in the pantheon of jazz literature.

Long Island's longest-tenured winemaker weighs in on what makes the North Fork so unique for fine wine production.

Aims to let silence disclose itself by cultivating attunements with silences’ happening.

Originally published in Hebrew in 1944, this fascinating and moving account may well be the first memoir of the Holocaust.

A moving tale of contemporary Haiti told through the intersecting lives of four young people struggling to hold on to hope and their identities amid a militarized coup in the early 1990s.

An explorer’s walking guide to downstate New York’s awesome boulders and rock formations.

A granddaughter's intimate portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt at her longtime home of Val-Kill as well as on a diplomatic trip to Europe and the Middle East.

Reality merges with illusion in this novel of northwestern China.

Examines the Yiddish-Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz's alignment with the Jewish working-class in Eastern Europe and his devotion to progressive politics.

Retraces Hölderlin's journeys to Bordeaux and back in 1801–02, explaining why they are turning points in the great poet's life.