Winner, Louisiana Literary Award 2003

Leading Harvard philosophy professor William Ernest Hocking (1873-1966), author of 17 books and i...

Ordinary Enchantments investigates magical realism as the most important trend in contemporary in...

When Nashville became a Catholic diocese in 1837, it was mostly an aspirational exercise. The few...

Felix Faure Street opens with a gruesome scene, with two incompetent police officers standing bef...

Jean Price-Mars (1876-1969) was a doctor, teacher, diplomat, and one of Haiti's most visionary in...

Bioethics Mediation offers stories about patients, families, and health care providers enmeshed i...

As if in direct response to The New Yorker's question of 'The Power of the Pen: Does Literature C...

Using the one-act comedy El parto de Juan Rana (John Frog Gives Birth) as a point of departure, V...

Michael Iarocci traces the ways in which Spain went from being central to European history and id...

Essays focus on Baroque as a concept and category of analysis which has been central to an unders...

Featuring many personal accounts, the twenty-four essays in this collection explore the challenge...