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Since its completion in 1955, Alain Resnais's Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) has been considered one of the most important films to confront the catastrophe and atrocities of the Nazi era. But was it a film about the Holocaust that failed to recognize the racist genocide? Or was the film not about the Holocaust as we know it today but a political and aesthetic response to what David Rousset, the French political prisoner from Buchenwald, identified on his return in 1945 as the 'concentrationary universe' which, now actualized, might release its totalitarian plague...

"Impact" is a fast-paced novel depicting the tragic lives of three young adults embarking on missions of murders-missions that will shake the very core of the two main characters, Frank and Lucas. With a natural dialogue and surprising twists, Impact will touch hearts with its story of redemption and love.

Pontiac, Michigan, is a city on the move-positive things happening, crime dropping, murders dropping. The people of the small city are excited about themselves and their future, but not everyone is happy. One notorious drug dealer is not happy at all. He sends out two killers to...

Franz Rosenzweig's near-conversion to Christianity in the summer of 1913 and his subsequent decision three months later to recommit himself to Judaism is one of the foundational narratives of modern Jewish thought. In this new account of events, Benjamin Pollock suggests that what lay at the heart of Rosenzweig's religious crisis was not a struggle between faith and reason, but skepticism about the world and hope for personal salvation. A close examination of this important time in Rosenzweig's life, the book also sheds light on the full trajectory of his philosophical development.

This book is the first in any language to follow the evolution of rasa from its origins in dramaturgical thought--a concept for the stage--to its...

Many of these stories, Pollock observes, rise out of the depths of terror, flirting with disaster only to end with a profound sense of relief at what medical discourse calls a "good outcome." Others represent pain, make counterclaims on reproductive technologies, and suggest complex associations between maternity, sexuality, and body politics in the...