Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good. With its origins in the author's urgent desire to stop smoking, "Cigarettes Are Sublime" offers a provocative look at the literary, philosophical, and cultural history of smoking. Richard Klein focuses on the dark beauty, negative pleasures, and exacting benefits attached to tobacco use and to cigarettes in particular. His appreciation of paradox and playful use of hyperbole lead the way on this aptly ambivalent romp through the cigarette in war, movies (the "Humphrey Bogart cigarette"), literature, poetry, and the reflections of...

As a developing industrial city during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Cleveland attracted diverse national groups. Their many churches and synagogues served as visual focal points and sociat centers in the city's ethnic neighborhoods. Today the resulting ensemble of sacred landmarks adds much to Cleveland's dynamic and visually interesting architecture. This guide, funded in part by the Ohio Arts and Humanities Councils, spotlights more than 120 of these structures with photographs, maps, and descriptive details about each building's architectural significance, construction,...

ber den Sonderstatus des Songschreibers Bob Dylan besteht nicht nur unter Musikbegeisterten Einigkeit, seine Texte haben aus ihm sogar einen ernsthaften Kandidaten fr den Literaturnobelpreis gemacht. Um so mehr fllt es auf, dass sich die Literatur- und Sozialwissenschaften bisher kaum fr Dylan, seine Texte und seine sozialhistorische Rolle interessiert haben. Ein internationaler Kongress, der 2006 in Frankfurt am Main stattfand, hat das gendert. Der Band dokumentiert die Vortrge von Michael Gray, Axel Honneth, Susan Neiman und Klaus Theweleit und anderen sowie die Abschludiskussion. Die...