Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik

During the sweeping changes taking place in 19th century Japan, no thinker was more important than Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901). Born into a low-ranking samurai family, he traveled to Nagasaki at age …

What was known and understood about the nature of the Nazi dictatorship in Britain prior to war in 1939? How was Nazism viewed by those outside of Germany? The British Press and Nazi Germany consider …

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, India stood on the brink of an exciting new era. Yet only a decade later, a series of corruption scandals and acts of violence against women had tarnishe …

First published in 1989. Mas“udi was born in Baghdad about 896 AD, during the Caliphate of Mu“tadid and died in Egypt sometime around the year 956, eleven years after the Buwaihids, a Shi“a dynast …

“An honest, compelling and important account, and a critical plea for a fusion of farming, food and nature to provide global ecological security“ CHRIS PACKHAM Why are so many animals facing extinc …

The prizewinning author of The Innocents examines the relationships among fact, fiction, fictionalization, and appropriation in this thought-provoking work. “In all creative writing, the question of …

"The Future of the Women’s Movement" by Helena M. Swanwick is a thought-provoking essay advocating feminism, women’s rights, and social change. Swanwick, a prominent figure in the suffrage …

Iceberg Slim“s last published novel is perhaps his greatest. Death Wish, written in Slim“s typically hard-hitting and highly compulsive prose, tells the story of Chicago“s Mafia and the power stru …