Toward EternityNegotiating the terrain of Kazuo Ishiguros Klara and the Sun and Emily St. John Mandels Sea of Tranquility, a brilliant, haunting speculative novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling translator that sets out to answer the question: What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up to biology? In a near future world, a new technological therapy is quickly eradicating cancer. The bodys cells are entirely replaced with

Weiser and his collaborators made Xerox PARC headquarters the site of a grand experiment

Crossing the Water and Winter Trees

a sentence

and even toilets

essayist and critic Mieko Kanai – whose work enjoys a cult status in Japan – is a disconcerting and radically imaginative portrait of selfhood in late-stage capitalist society

as well as by showing how today’s conflicts have their roots in the British colonial construction of India’s history

King Fahd Professor of Islamic Studies

Between words and the way we think

Marc Jacobs

All of the published poetry of James Baldwin

the concept of profanation — as both the “return to common usage” and “sacrifice” — reorients perceptions of how power

- Jomo Kwame Sundaram