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Lionel Trilling, regarded at the time of his death in 1975 as America's preeminent literary critic, is today often seen as a relic of a vanished era. His was an age when literary criticism and ideas seemed to matter profoundly in the intellectual life of the country. In this eloquent book, Adam Kirsch shows that Trilling, far from being obsolete, is essential to understanding our current crisis of literary confidence--and to overcoming it.

By reading Trilling primarily as a writer and thinker, Kirsch demonstrates how Trilling's original and moving work continues to provide an...

Liebe geht durch den Garten. Erfolgsautorin Lisa Kirsch (»Das Glück in vollen Zügen«) schreibt beste deutsche Unterhaltung: lebensnah, romantisch und humorvoll.

Maddie hat es fast geschafft: Ihr Traumjob als Musicaldarstellerin ist zum Greifen nah. Um richtig Fuß zu fassen, darf sie sich auf keinen Fall ablenken lassen. Doch dann stolpert Maddie durch Zufall in den Gemeinschaftsgarten "Grüne Freiheit". Auf einmal merkt sie, was ihr gefehlt hat: Sie genießt das Gefühl von frischer Erde zwischen den Fingern, freundet sich mit der wilden Lila an und bekommt Herzklopfen, wenn...

While ethnography ordinarily privileges anthropological interpretations, this book attempts the reciprocal process of describing indigenous modes of analysis. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research with the Yonggom people of New Guinea, the author examines how indigenous analysis organizes local knowledge and provides a framework for interpreting events, from first contact and colonial rule to contemporary interactions with a multinational mining company and the Indonesian state.

This book highlights Yonggom participation in two political movements: an international campaign...

"Jonathan Kirsch has written another blockbuster about the Bible and its world." --David Noel Freedman, Editor-in-Chief of the Anchor Bible Project

"Kirsch tackles the central issue bedeviling the world today - religious intolerance... A timely book, well-written and researched." --Leonard Shlain, author of The Alphabet and the Goddess and Sex, Time and Power

"An intriguing read." --The Jerusalem...