Do young people today find meaning in the Holocaust? That’s the question that prompted a writing project across North America, Italy, and Australia asking young people to share their ideas about this time in history. Some students wrote...
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Auteur:Sommaire:This monumental anthology charts the ongoing American and international response to the legacy of the seminal poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Beginning with Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous 1855 letter ("I greet you at the beginning of a...
- Auteur:Ross, AlexSommaire:
This program is read by the author, and includes excerpts from Richard Wagner's musical compositions throughout. A New York Times Notable Books of 2020 Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international...
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Auteur:Sommaire:Major thinkers engage with King's less studied writing, arguing its marginalization has let King be drafted into projects he would not endorse.
- Auteur:Booth, MichaelSommaire:
There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and...
- Auteur:Mackay, PeterSommaire:
This Strange Lonelinessis the first comprehensive account of the poetic relationship between Seamus Heaney and William Wordsworth. Peter Mackay explores how Heaney repeatedly turns to the Romantic poet's work for inspiration,...
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Auteur:Soderstrom, MarySommaire:Taking us on walks through Paris, New York, Toronto, North Vancouver and Singapore, Mary Soderstrom examines how cites have changed the lives of ordinary citizens—in positive and negative ways. Making the city walkable again is crucial...
- Auteur:Kingsnorth, PaulSommaire:
Set in the years after the Norman invasion of England, The Wake tells the story of a fractured band of guerrilla fighters who take up arms against the invaders. Based on known historical facts about the almost forgotten war of...
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Auteur:Laron, GuySommaire:A big-picture history that examines the Six Day War, its causes, and its enduring consequences against its global context
- Auteur:Stavans, IlanSommaire:
Distinguished man of letters Ilan Stavans believes Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha "invented modern consciousness." In these lectures, Stavans explores the work's impact within Renaissance Spain and...
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Auteur:Roy, WendySommaire:What happens next? That was the question asked of early-twentieth-century authors Nellie L. McClung, L. M. Montgomery, and Mazo de la Roche, whose stories and novels appeared serially and kept readers and publishers in a state of...
- Auteur:Mikaberidze, AlexanderSommaire:
An examination of the far-ranging international context of the Napoleonic Wars. The author examines one region at a time, discussing major political-military events and decision-making affected by the conflicts waged by France. 2020....
- Auteur:Zirin, DaveSommaire:
In 2016, amid an epidemic of police shootings of African Americans, the celebrated NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick began a series of quiet protests on the field, refusing to stand during the US national anthem. By "taking a knee,...
- Auteur:Paré, ArleenSommaire:
A long poem memorializing the art and lives of sculptors Frances Loring and Florence Wyle. Arleen Paré, in her first book-length poem after her Governor General Literary Award-winning Lake of Two Mountains, turns her cool, benevolent...
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Auteur:Roitman, GinaSommaire:In Tell Me a Story, Tell Me the Truth, author Gina Roitman has captured her own experience as the daughter of Holocaust survivors in the character of Leah Smilovitz. An outsider, she belongs neither to her parents’ painful generation...
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Auteur:Sullivan, RosemarySommaire:The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators--her father, Josef...
- Auteur:Green, JonathanSommaire:
The best art has the uncanny ability not only to give pleasure to those who view it but also to inspire a desire to respond. The best artists are a force for all art, and renowned Gullah artist Jonathan Green's work has inspired a wide...
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Auteur:Francis, DanielSommaire:At the end of World War I, Canada was poised on the brink of social revolution. At least that is what many Canadians, inspired by the success of the Russian Revolution in 1917, hoped and others dreaded. Seeing Reds tells the story of...
- Auteur:Strathern, PaulSommaire:
During his lifetime, Jean-Paul Sartre enjoyed unprecedented popularity for a philosopher, due partly to his role as a spokesman for existentialism--at the opportune moment when this set of ideas filled the spiritual gap left amidst the...
- Auteur:Dagenais, Maxime, Mauduit, JulienSommaire:
Starting in 1837, rebels in Upper and Lower Canada revolted against British rule in an attempt to reform a colonial government that they believed was unjust. While this uprising is often perceived as a small-scale, localized event,...
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