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Zimzum: God and the Origin of the World by Christoph Schulte 9781512824353
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £43.02The Hebrew word zimzum originally means "contraction," "withdrawal," "retreat," "limitation," and "concentration." In Kabbalah, zimzum is a term for God's self-limitation, done before creating the... -
American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality: Searching for the Higher Self, 1875-1915 by Catherine Tumber 9780847697496
Booksplease Price: £40.79Contrary to popular thought, New Age spirituality did not suddenly appear in American life in the 1970s and '80s. In American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality, Catherine Tumber... -
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume V: Probing the Authenticity of the Parables by John P. Meier 9780300211900
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.17Since the late nineteenth century, New Testament scholars have operated on the belief that most, if not all, of the narrative parables in the Synoptic Gospels can be attributed to the historical... -
Julian by Gore Vidal 9780349147147
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal's finest historical novelsJulian... -
The Annotated Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9780674049239
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £27.20A brilliant essayist and a master of the aphorism ("Our moods do not believe in each other"; "Money often costs too much"), Emerson has inspired countless writers. He challenged Americans to shut... -
Young Rain by Kevin Hart 9780268030889
RRP: £23.50Booksplease Price: £14.39In a 1985 interview with fellow poet John Kinsella, Kevin Hart reflected on the nature of poetry: "People sometimes think that the spiritual world is distinct from, even distant from, this world. . ... -
Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage by Grace Schulman 9781885983527
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.33A New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Selection "Grace Schulman makes me want to live to be four hundred years old, because she makes me feel there is so much out there, and it's unbearable... -
Enchantment: The Seductress in Opera by Jean Starobinski 9780231140904
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63We often look to the theater for spectacle and wonder, but in opera, we find pure enchantment. What is it about the marriage of music and the stage that fills us with such bewilderment and passion?... -
Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in America by Deborah R. Geis 9780472066230
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14Tony Kushner's complex and demanding play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes has been the most talked about, analyzed, and celebrated play of the decade. The critic Harold Bloom has... -
The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume Three by Daniel Chanan Matt 9780804752107
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £40.78This third volume of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition completes the Zohar's commentary on the book of Genesis. Here we find spiritual explorations of numerous biblical narratives, including Jacob's... -
Genius to Improve an Invention: Literary Transitions by Piero Boitani 9780268029517
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.69The Genius to Improve an Invention derives its title from John Dryden's phrase for the British tendency to take up literary masterpieces from the past and "perfect" them. Distinguished literary... -
Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse by Anahid Nersessian
Booksplease Price: £20.42"When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over--like this world, and some of the people in it." In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would... -
Hebrew Melodies by Heinrich Heine 9780271084800
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.41One of the most important German poets of the nineteenth century, Heinrich Heine was a convert without conviction. He chose Christianity over Judaism as a means of securing an academic career, but... -
Why Education Is Useless by Daniel Cottom 9780812237207
Booksplease Price: £52.86Education is useless because it destroys our common sense, because it isolates us from the rest of humanity, because it hardens our hearts and swells our heads. Bookish persons have long been... -
Vincent Scully: Architecture, Urbanism, and a Life in Search of Community Dr A. Krista Sykes 9781350298415
Booksplease Price: £30.53The renowned architectural historian and critic, beloved Yale professor, and outspoken public activist Vincent Scully (1920-2017) emerged in the 1950s as a guiding voice in American architecture... -
Music's Making: The Poetry of Music, the Music of Poetry by Michael Cherlin 9781438498454
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £59.58A personal voyage of discovery drawing on musicology, literary theory, Jewish studies, and philosophical phenomenology.As a work of musical theory, or meta-theory, Music's Making draws extensively on... -
The Prague Orgy by Philip Roth
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by... -
The Lives of Things by Jose Saramago
Booksplease Price: £14.57Combining bitter satire, outrageous parody and uncanny hallucinations, this collection of Jose Saramago's earliest stories from the beginning of his writing career attests to the novelist's... -
THE AMERICANIST 9780472115778
Booksplease Price: £39.32"I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual and social memoir for which he will be remembered. His self-portrait is... -
Benjamin's Crossing by Jay Parini
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31There is no such thing as history, you see. It's a dream, perhaps even a dream of a dream . . .Walter Benjamin is dead. One of the most radiant minds of the twentieth century has been snatched away... -
The Analects by Confucius 9780143106852
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23One of the most influential books in human history, in a revelatory new translation.China's first and greatest teacher, Confucius traveled from state to state as an itinerant philosopher. The... -
Joan of Arc and Sacrificial Authorship by Ann W. Astell 9780268032609
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.91A host of modern authors have portrayed Joan of Arc as a heroine. Identifying with the medieval saint and martyr as a figure of the artist, they tell her story as a way of commenting on their own... -
Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism by Moshe Idel 9780826496669
Booksplease Price: £66.88While many aspects of Sonship have been analyzed in books on Judaism, this book constitutes the first attempt to address the category of Sonship in Jewish mystical literature as a whole - a category... -
Music's Making: The Poetry of Music, the Music of Poetry by Michael Cherlin 9781438498461
Booksplease Price: £26.07A personal voyage of discovery drawing on musicology, literary theory, Jewish studies, and philosophical phenomenology.As a work of musical theory, or meta-theory, Music's Making draws extensively on... -
The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 9780820346076
RRP: £86.95Booksplease Price: £73.17This authoritative textual edition presents Tobias Smollett's translation of Cervantes's Don Quixote in the form most faithful to Smollett's own intentions. It includes Francis Hayman's twenty-eight... -
Again, the Dawn: New and Selected Poems, 1976 - 2022 by Grace Schulman 9781885983336
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.26Exquisite new work along with a selection of her finest poems spanning five decades from the essential poet and national treasure, Frost Medal winner Grace Schulman.Again, the Dawn draws together... -
The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume Four by Daniel Chanan Matt
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £43.40Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed and overwhelmed readers ever since it emerged mysteriously in medieval Spain toward the end of the thirteenth century. Written in a unique, lyrical... -
After 1945: Latency as Origin of the Present by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40What is it the legacy that humankind has been living with since 1945? We were once convinced that time was the agent of change. But in the past decade or two, our experience of time has been... -
Midnight Is Not in Everyone's Reach 9781628976120
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.18A polyphonic novel set over the course of three days, Midnight is Not in Everyone's Reach is a stunning meditation on memory and time from Antonio Lobo Antunes, considered by many to be Portugal's... -
The English Bible, King James Version: The Old Testament by Herbert Marks 9780393927450
Booksplease Price: £23.28In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, these long-awaited volumes bring together succinct introductions to each biblical book, detailed explanatory annotations, and a wealth... -
From Bondage: Mercy Of A Rude Stream Volume 3 - `A masterpiece, not remotely like anything else in American literature' by Henry Roth
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £4.01'A landmark of the American literary century' Boston Globe Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It Sleep, Henry Roth returned with Mercy of a Rude Stream - a... -
Vincent Scully: Architecture, Urbanism, and a Life in Search of Community by Dr A. Krista Sykes 9781350298378
Booksplease Price: £99.09The renowned architectural historian and critic, beloved Yale professor, and outspoken public activist Vincent Scully (1920-2017) emerged in the 1950s as a guiding voice in American architecture... -
Stanley Cavell's American Dream: Shakespeare, Philosophy, and Hollywood Movies by Lawrence F. Rhu 9780823225965
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £54.22This book explores Cavell's writings along converging lines of thought rather than in isolated categories. The author claims that, after Cavell's celebrated reading of King Lear turned into a... -
Serious Noticing: Selected Essays by James Wood
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works'James Wood is a close reader of genius... By turns luscious and muscular, committed and... -
Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir by John T. Irwin
Booksplease Price: £25.63Early in the twentieth century a new character type emerged in the crime novels of American writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler: the "hard-boiled" detective, most famously... -
Tangle of Matter & Ghost: Leonard Cohen's Post-Secular Songbook of Mysticism(s) Jewish & Beyond by Aubrey Glazer 9781618115492
RRP: £77.99Booksplease Price: £55.07Tangle of Matter & Ghost: Leonard Cohen's Post-Secular Songbook of Mysticism(s) Jewish & beyond analyzes the lyrical poetry of Leonard Cohen through a post-secular lens. The volume fuses... -
Barefoot by Kevin Hart 9780268103149
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Barefoot is Kevin Hart's eighth collection of poems; it is rich in elegies, meditations on lost love, and celebrations of new love. The title speaks of mourning, pilgrimage, and the direct sensuous... -
Tangle of Matter & Ghost: Leonard Cohen's Post-Secular Songbook of Mysticism(s) Jewish & Beyond by Aubrey Glazer 9781618115812
RRP: £23.50Booksplease Price: £15.66Tangle of Matter & Ghost: Leonard Cohen's Post-Secular Songbook of Mysticism(s) Jewish & beyond analyzes the lyrical poetry of Leonard Cohen through a post-secular lens. The volume fuses... -
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RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.40'A landmark of the American literary century' Boston Globe Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It Sleep, Henry Roth returned with Mercy of a Rude Stream - a... -
The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 by Peter Cole
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and...