"Time and Words" is a series of articles and sermons written by a Presbyterian Cuban pastor-theologian before and after the Cuban Revolution. It is one man's account of how those seismic changes affected not only the reformed church in Cuba, but the society as well. It would be facile to dismiss the work as dated, and therefore irrelevant. The truth is, is that both the reformed churches and the society they serve are still very much in a holding pattern where personal freedoms remain restricted by a punishing socialist government in the throes of a long overdue self-appraisal. For those who...

Translated by William McNaughton, former chair at Hong Kong University, and poet David Young at Oberlin College, these poems showcase Qin Guan, a relatively unknown 11th -century master of Chinese verse whose company could include the likes of the esteemed Li Po (Li Bai) and Du Fu. Praised by the illustrious Wang An-shih, Guan was a disciple of Su Shih (Su Dongpo) one of China's masters of multiple literary forms, and who strived to loosen the poetic conventions of the day. As an acolyte would, Qin Guan blew out the conventional even more by writing about his encounters with courtesans, a...