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Poland is a country which sporadically hits the headlines of the Anglo-Saxon world. It has suffered the dubious distinction of being wiped off the political map in 1795 to be resurrected after the Fir...
Poland is a country which sporadically hits the headlines of the Anglo-Saxon world. It has suffered the dubious distinction of being wiped off the political map in 1795 to be resurrected after the Fir...
Czeslaw Milosz’s greatness as a writer has something to do with his gift for going straight to the heart of a question – be it moral, artistc, political, autobiographical – and answe...
“Road-side Dog is an elusive as well as allusive work, a book not exactly of poetry but not of prose either… a pleasure” Richard Bernestein, The New York Times
Czeslaw Milosz is the winner of the 1978 Neusdadt International Prize in Literature and the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include many volumes of poetry, most recently Collected Poems 1931...
An up-to-date travel guide with 131 color photos and 22 maps.
When Africa makes international news, it is usually because war has broken out or some bizarre natural disaster has taken a large number of lives. Westerners are appallingly ignorant of Africa otherwi...
In A Stanislaw Lem Reader, Peter Swirski has assembled an in-depth and insightful collection of wrightings by and about, and interview with, one of the most fascinating writers on the twentieth centur...
Haile Selassie, King of Kings, Elect of God, Lion of Judah, His Most Puissant Majesty and Distinguished Hishness the Emperor of Ethiopia, reigned from 1930 until he was overthrown by the army in 1974....