The Local and the Global: And Other EssaysThis volume of essays examines and celebrates how cross cultural encounters have shaped modern art, a crucial reminder in today's political landscape. In The Local and the Global and Other Essays, K. G. Subramanyan investigates the fate of multiculturalism in a globalized world. He interrogates questions about when art stopped being subservient to the dictates of the calendar and explores how artistic traditions maintain their identity in a global

A celebrated new translation of Dostoevsky’s masterpiece reveals the “social problems facing our own society” (Nation)

fear and optimism

The Struggle for Equality presents an incisive and vivid look at the abolitionist movement and the legal basis it provided to the civil rights movement of the 1960s

These activities may slow down traffic

and finally dramatically transformed the geography of the area — both culturally and physically — over the course of their colonial era

and fabrication of

impassioned chronicle of human belief and desire in an increasingly uncertain world

harmful views

The best ones are indelible in our memories

and the behavior of people and countries in times of crisis

and macho charades all get flipped on their heads

the Portuguese modernist master