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  • Said on Opera

    by Edward Said ...
    One of the late twentieth century’s most celebrated and influential public intellectuals, Edward W. Said was also a critic of astonishing range. This book presents his insightful and elegant analyses of four major operas—originally delivered as the Empson Lectures at Cambridge University in 1997—showcasing the power of Said’s critical acumen to unsettle canonical interpretations.In close readings ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Music at the Limits

    by Edward Said ...
    Music at the Limits is the first book to bring together three decades of Edward W. Said's essays and articles on music. Addressing the work of a variety of composers, musicians, and performers, Said carefully draws out music's social, political, and cultural contexts and, as a classically trained pianist, provides rich and often surprising assessments of classical music and opera.Music at the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography

    by Edward Said ...
    Edward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal disintegration in his constant re-narration of the past. Using the author's personal letters as a guide to understanding his fiction, Said draws an important parallel between Conrad's view of his own life and the manner and form of his stories. The critic also argues that the author, who set his fiction in exotic locations like East Asia and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Freud And The Non-European

    by Edward Said, Jacqueline Rose ...
    Series Book 8 - Radical Thinkers
    Banned by the Freud institute in Vienna, this controversial lecture eventually became Edward Said’s final book. Freud and the Non-European builds on Said’s abiding interest in the psychoanalyst’s work to examine Freud’s assumption that Moses was an Egyptian and from there explore the limits of identity. Such an unresolved, nuanced sense of identity, Said argues, might one day form the basis for a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Little Mountain

    by Elias Khoury ...
    Translated by Maia Tabet ...
    Written in the opening phases of the Lebanese Civil War (1975--1990), Little Mountain is told from the perspectives of three characters: a Joint Forces fighter; a distressed civil servant; and an amorphous figure, part fighter, part intellectual. Elias Khoury's language is poetic and piercing as he tells the story of Beirut, civil war, and fractured identity. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Beethoven and the World in 1824

    by Harvey Sachs ...
    The premier of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year—and the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential compositions in the history of music. Described in vibrant detail by eminent musicologist Harvey Sachs, this symbol of freedom and joy was so unorthodox that it amazed and confused listeners at its ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Bookseller of Kabul

    by Åsne Seierstad ...
    This phenomenal international bestseller is " an admirable, revealing portrait of daily life in a country that Washington claims to have liberated but does not begin to understand" ( Washington Post) .This mesmerizing portrait of a proud man who, through three decades and successive repressive regimes, heroically braved persecution to bring books to the people of Kabul has elicited extraordinary ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Oxford History of Western Music: 5-vol. set: 5-vol. set

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    by Richard Taruskin ...
    The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin. Now in hardcover, the set has been reconstructed to be available for the first time as individual books, each one taking on a critical time period in the history of western music. All five books are also being offered in a shrink ... Read more

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  • My Road from Damascus

    A Memoir

    by Jamal Saeed ...
    Translated by Catherine Cobham ...
    Finalist for the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction“A lyrical, extremely rich narrative of loss, memory, and trauma.” — STARRED review, Kirkus ReviewsAn extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity — and yet, there is a poetic quality to the telling.” — Frances Itani, award-winning author of Deafening and ... Read more

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  • Beethoven: The Music and the Life

    The Music and the Life

    by Lewis Lockwood ...
    An authoritative work offering a fresh look at Beethoven’s life, career, and milieu. “Magisterial” —New York Review of Books.This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts. Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent personal, historical, political, and cultural frameworks in which Beethoven worked and examines their effects on ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Strange Times, My Dear

    The PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature

    Edited by Nahid Mozaffari, Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak ...
    When Arcade Publishing originally contracted this extraordinary collection of poetry and literature, the Department of the Treasury was attempting to censor the publication of works from countries on America’s “enemies list.” Arcade, along with the PEN American Center, the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, and the Association of American University ... Read more

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  • Mozart

    A Life

    by Peter Gay ...
    A biography of the greatest musical mind in Western historyMozart's unshakable hold on the public's consciousness can only be strengthened by historian and biographer Peter Gay's concise and deft look at the genius's life. Mozart traces the development of the man whose life was a whirlwind of achievement, and the composer who pushed every instrument to its limit and every genre of classical music ... Read more

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