Beneath My Skin is an exploration of the self, the mind (neurodivergent or otherwise), and the world... more

A collection of 30 poems, Beneath My Skin is an exploration of the self, the mind (neurodivergent or... more

Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.... more

Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.... more

As biology becomes more quantitative and computational, increasing numbers of physical scientists, m... more

One of the early-twentieth century Southern intellectuals and artists of the early twentieth century... more

Mt. Holyoke, which overlooks the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, has been a tourist destina... more

The Japanese first encountered Western scientific technology around 1543, when the Portuguese drifte... more

Zen and the art of tea-the classic book about the Japanese tea ceremony that is as much a guide to l... more

, his unabashed imperialist views have come under increased scrutiny. In If, scholar Christopher Benfey brings this...... more

As biology becomes more quantitative and computational, increasing numbers of physical scientists, m... more

critic Christopher Benfey shares stories--of his mother s upbringing in rural North Carolina among centuries-old folk...... more

One of the foremost critics in contemporary American letters, Christopher Benfey has long been known for his brilliant...... more

Benfey re-creates the summer of 1882, the summer when Mabel Louise Todd-the prot g to the painter Heade-confesses her love...... more

A translator of Flaubert and Gautier, Lafcadio Hearn was the master of a gaudy and sometimes self-co... more

Sixty years ago, at the height of World War II, an extraordinary series of gatherings took place at ... more

War II--calling it her method of facing the war --and, as Christopher Benfey argues in his introduction, the essay was...... more

When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the...... more

Benfey offers an insightful appreciation of Liebling’s photographs and the light they shed on Dickinson and her work; he...... more

Dickinson has conditioned our responses to her; and Christopher Benfey surveys her imprint on contemporary American poetry. Each...... more