Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922

Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922Marina Tsvetaeva ranks with Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Boris Pasternak as one of Russias greatest twentieth century poets. Her suicide at the age of forty eight was the tragic culmination of a life buffeted by political upheaval. The essays collected in this volume are based on diaries she kept during the turbulent years of the Revolution and Civil War. In them she records conversations of women in the markets, soldiers and peasants on the

A modern-day Bengali Decameron

Keep this colon-clearing collection toilet-side or take it with you wherever you go

Laâbi never ceases searching

The book ranges widely across Victorian intellectual life and beyond

If for no other reason than the pleasure of enjoying this fruit of sovereign scholarship

Polly Barton attempts to exhaust her obsession with the country she moved to at the age of 21

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Low draws from decades of research in public spaces across the Americas

How to build a fairer

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Imitated and rebranded as ‘New Age’ or ‘spiritual’

in honor of his husband