The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
Movie Watch
The Stanford prison experiment was ostensibly a psychological study of human responses to captivity...
Brain on Fire (2016)
Movie Watch
Based on the true story of Susannah Cahalan and her book by the same name, this movie follows a 21...
Recessional - Or, the Time of the Hammer
Book
Modernist and contemporary literature are marked by a preoccupation with time, specifically with the...
This Little Art
Book
Part-essay and part-memoir, THIS LITTLE ART is a manifesto for the practice of literary translation....
Eddie's Bastard
Book
In this rich, deeply resonant literary debut, twenty-eight-year-old William Kowalski explores the...
fiction literary fiction contemporary American
Modernism at the Microphone: Radio, Propaganda, and Literary Aesthetics During World War II
Book
As the Second World War raged throughout Europe, modernist writers often became crucial voices in...
Challenging the Modern: Conservative Revolution in German Music, 1918-1933
Book
This book challenges commonplace conceptions of musical conservatism during Germany's Weimar...
Cultural Amnesia
Book
In this book can be heard the merest edge of an enormous conversation. As they never were in life,...
Hermann Hesse: A Biography
Book
Anillustrated biography drawing on Hesse's own work and on the recollections of his family and...
A Difficult Death: The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen
Morten Hoi Jensen and James Wood
Book
While largely unknown today, Danish writer and Darwin translator Jens Peter Jacobsen was the leading...