Paul Dry Books: 62 books
by Kevin Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
"One of the great and lasting books about Greece." —Patrick Leigh Fermor
In 1947, at the age of twenty-three, Kevin Andrews received a fellowship to study medieval fortresses in the Peloponnese. This opportunity to travel through areas little-frequented by foreigners—during and...
Along Those Lines
The Boundaries that Create Our World
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
After years of crossing borders in search of new birds and new landscapes, Peter Cashwell's exploration of lines between states, between time zones, and between species led him to consider the lines that divide genders, seasons, musical genres, and just about every other aspect of human life. His...
Same-Sex Marriage and American Constitutionalism
A Study in Federalism, Separation of Powers, and Individual Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The two-decades-long controversy over same-sex marriage in the United States was finally resolved on June 26, 2015, when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which held that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses required states to...
From Berlin to Jerusalem
Memories of My Youth
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
"A serene, lucid and stylish essay in intellectual autobiography that at the same time commemorates a vanished world."—Times Literary Supplement
"An extraordinary life—one that itself takes on symbolic, if not mystical, significance." —Robert Coles
From Berlin...
Open Secrets / Inward Prospects
Reflections on World and Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
In her latest book, Eva Brann has collected observations and aphorisms written over more than thirty years. Open Secrets / Inward Prospects divides in a rough but ready way into two sorts: observations about our external world well known to all but not always openly told, and sightings of...
The Music of the Republic
Essays on Socrates' Conversations and Plato's Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
“This collection of Eva Brann’s is one of the most valuable aids a lover of Plato could have.”—Walter Nicgorski, University of Notre Dame
In fourteen essays, Eva Brann talks with readers about the conversations Socrates engages in with his fellow Athenians. In doing so, she shows how...
by Paula Marantz Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
"Cohen has made an essential classic cool."—Beth Kephart
"Juliet Capulet would find a worthy BFF in Beatrice Bunson."—Cordelia Frances Biddle
High school begins, and to Beatrice Bunson nothing is the same, not even her best friend, Nan. The "new" Nan...
Homage to Americans
Mile-high Meditations, Close Readings, and Time-Spanning Speculations
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
In her latest collection of essays and lectures, Homage to Americans, Eva Brann explores the roots and essence of our American ways.
In “Mile-high Meditations,” her flight’s late departure from the Denver airport prompts a consideration of her manner of waiting (i.e.,“being”)....
by Eva Brann
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
These two long essays make up a short book, one full of depth and knowledge, in which Eva Brann gets at the roots of our thinking—without tearing things apart.
Then
In the first essay, Brann parses out the schema and meaning of Herodotus's The History (The Persian Wars)....
by Eva Brann
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Eva Brann, who has taught at St. John’s College, Annapolis, for sixty years, wrote these essays largely as clarifying incitements to students who were reading, or ought to have been reading, the works discussed. In her words: "The first essay looks at the 'Pre-Socratics' Heraclitus and Parmenides....
by Sister Miriam Joseph, Marguerite McGlinn
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Who sets language policy today? Who made whom the grammar doctor? Lacking the equivalent of l'Académie française, we English speakers must find our own way looking for guidance or vindication in source after source. McGuffey's Readers introduced nineteenth-century students to "correct"...
So Many Books
Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
"Gabriel Zaid's defense of books is genuinely exhilarating. It is not pious, it is wise; and its wisdom is delivered with extraordinary lucidity and charm. This is how Montaigne would have written about the dizzy and increasingly dolorous age of the Internet. May So Many Books fall...
Tattered Banners
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
“With his eye for detail, his taste for anecdote, and his sheer delight in the process of living, Rodzianko has created a delightful, if often sad, work.”―Gary Saul Morson, from his new foreword for this first American edition
"Capacious, powerful, and subtle―a forgotten work with...
by Alice Thomas Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
"A work of astonishing illumination and delight...so edgy, bright and subversive about women's inner lives and experience."—Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review
A New York Times Notable Book
In The Summer House trilogy, three very different women, with three very distinct...