Frederic V Grunfeld: 3 books

Prophets Without Honour: Freud, Kafka, Einstein, and Their World by Frederic V. Grunfeld (with an introduction by Michael Brenner; 134,000 words, 16 illustrations) Prophets Without Honour is a collective biography set in an extraordinary epoch of cultural history sometimes called “the Weimar...

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was not only the world’s greatest sculptor, known for such works as The Thinker, The Kiss, The Hand of God, and dozens of others, but also one of the most remarkable personalities of modern times: an artist who outraged contemporaries with his disturbingly unfinished...

A renaissance man in the Middle Ages, Alfonso the Learned of Castile marshaled the talents of Christians, Jews, and Muslims in an extraordinary outpouring of scholarship and art. Here, in this short-form book, is his little-told story.