Novelist, playwright, film actor, martial artist, and political commentator, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was arguably the most famous person in Japan at the time of his death. Henry Scott Stokes, one of Mishima's closest friends, was the only non-Japanese allowed to attend the trial of the men involved in Mishima's spectacular suicide. In this insightful and empathetic look at the writer, Stokes guides the reader through the milestones of Mishima's meteoric and eclectic career and delves into the artist's major works and themes. This biography skillfully and compassionately illuminates the achievements and disquieting ideas of a brilliant and deeply troubled man, an artist of whom Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata had said, "A writer of Mishima's caliber comes along only once every two or three hundred years."

The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima

Biographies & Memoirs

Stokes, Henry Scott

Community & Culture

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Using a personal, anecdotal, and humorous style, Underhill examines the good and not-so-good reasons why people become lawyers, exposing popular myths, and looking at different types of lawyers, and the skills lawyers need.

Majoring in Law: How to Get from Your Freshman Year to Your First Job (Majoring in Your Life)

Business & Money

Underhill, Stefan

Job Hunting & Careers

A Platonic dialogue in the form of a double anachronism--the action takes place two centuries after our era--Joseph Brodsky's only play, Marbles, is set in a prison cell that alone provides for the three unities of classic drama: those of time, place, and action. A nightmare rather than a utopia, this play proceeds according to the immanent logic of mental aggravation as its two characters, the inmates Publius and Tullius, examine the tautology of their psychological, historical, and purely physical confines. The fusion of its dour, somewhat terrifying vision with the macabre hilarity of its verbal texture allows Marbles to take its audience beyond the farthest reaches of the theatre of the absurd, into territory more suitable for modernist imagination than for human experience.

Marbles: A Play in Three Acts

Literature & Fiction

BRODSKY, JOSEPH

Dramas & Plays

In the 1970s, Calvin Trillin informed us that the most glorious food in an American city was not to be found at the pretentious rooftop restaurant he called La Maison de la Casa House, Continental Cuisine. With three hilarious books, he established himself as "our funniest food writer" and, in Craig Claiborne's phrase, "the Walt Whitman of American eats." Now the three books have been combined in what Trillin calls The Tummy Trilogy.

The Tummy Trilogy: American Fried/Alice, Let's Eat/Third Helpings

Humor & Entertainment

TRILLIN, Calvin

Humor

Singer's first colleciotn of stories, Gimpel the Fool, is a landmark of world literature and attracted international attention when it was first published in 1957. The title story, beautifully translated by Saul Bellow, follows the exploits of gimpel, an ingenuous baker, who is universally deceived but declines to retaliate. Other protagonists are not so innocent. Hodel, of "The Gentleman from Cracow, " is wed to Ketev Mriri, Chief of the Devils, and Nathan, of "The Unseen," leaves his wife for a demon in the form of a young woman. Enlightened or condemned, all characters inhabit the pre-World War II ghettos of Poland, and take shape in Singer's distinctive prose.

Gimpel the Fool: Stories

SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS

Contemporary

Rosshalde is the classic story of a man torn between obligations to his family and his longing for a spiritual fulfillment that can only be found outside the confines of conventional society.Johann Veraguth, a wealthy, successful artist, is estranged from his wife and stifled by the unhappy union. Veraguth€™s love for his young son and his fear of drifting rootlessly keep him bound within the walls of his opulent estate, Rosshalde. Yet, when he is shaken by an unexpected tragedy, Veraguth finally finds the courage to leave the desolate safety of Rosshalde and travels to India to discover himself anew.

Rosshalde

Romance

HESSE,HERMANN

The Haw Lantern

Poems exploring the theme of loss, meditations on the conscience of the writer, and exercises in an allegorical vein are featured in this collection of thirty-one poems

HEANEY, SEAMUS

Poetry

Giving Birth: How it Really Feels

Women share their birth experiences, including Caesarean birth, twins, miscarriage, and the support of husbands

Giving Birth: How It Really Feels

KITZINGER, SHEILA

Medical Books

Portrays a Texas ranch foreman who may well be the last American cowboy, a man who stubbornly clings to the traditions through which he defines his manhood

The Last Cowboy

KRAMER, Jane

Mitford's brave look at the funeral business, her attack on the Famous Writers School, and her war against a California University that insisted on fingerprinting her are accompanied by her running commentary on the strategies of muckraking journalism

Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking

History

MITFORD, JESSICA

Americas

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