Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
Movie
Kon Ichikawa examines the beauty and rich drama on display at the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo,...
The Importance of Pawns (Chronicles of the House of Valois)
Book
Based on historical events and characters in sixteenth-century France, this timeless tale pits envy,...
Historical Fiction
Hair (1979)
Movie
Claude Bukowski leaves his families ranch in Oklahoma for New York en route to his drafting for...
Amiable With Big Teeth
Book
A monumental literary event: the newly discovered final novel by seminal Harlem Renaissance writer...
Fiction
Structuralism
Book
Originally published in English in 1971, structuralism was an increasingly important method of...
Poems
Francois Villon and David Georgi
Book
One of the most original and influential European poets of the Middle Ages, Francois Villon took his...
Fortune's Formula
Book
In 1956 two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting rich. One was...
London: A History in Paintings & Illustrations
Book
London has been an irresistible subject for generations of artists and draughtsmen, who have...
Marcel Mauss: A Biography
Marcel Fournier and Jane Marie Todd
Book
This book is the first intellectual biography of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), the father of modern...