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In her critically acclaimed, ingenious memoir, Sarah Messer explores America s fascination with history, family, and Great Houses. Her Massachusetts childhood home had sheltered the Hatch family for 325 years when her parents bought it in 1965. The will of the house s original owner, Walter Hatch which stipulated Red House was to be passed down, "never to be sold or mortgaged from my children and grandchildren forever" still hung in the living room. In Red House, Messer explores the strange and enriching consequences of growing up with another family s birthright. Answering the riddle...

The influence of Zen Master Ikkyu (1394-1481) permeates the full field of medieval Japanese aesthetics. Though best known as a poet, he was central to the shaping and reshaping of practices in calligraphy, Noh theater, tea ceremony, and rock gardening, all of which now define Japan s sense of its cultural tradition. Ikkyu is unique in Zen for letting his love of all appearance occupy him until it destroys any possibility for safety or seclusion. In his poetry, he turns the eye of enlightenment to all phenomena: politics, pine trees, hard meditation practice, sex, wine. A lifelong outsider to...