I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward DarknessDawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race car drivers, ghosts, and demons. In a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed. Family and caretakers drift in and out. Meanwhile, all the women who have lived and died in that house are waiting for her to join them. They are preparing to throw her a party. As day turns to night, four

darkness and light

and Shanghai to Tanzania’s utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman’s Empty Quarter—and many places beyond

people determine their own lives

‘It is one of the most remarkable biographical pieces ever written

Jeff Deutsch—the former director of Chicago’s Seminary Co-op Bookstores

In this work he discusses the resurgence of the East and the challenge it poses to Western supremacy

rejects the Victorian belief that women must choose between virtue and ambition

the mystifying Helen

and Eldar Shafir

time itself is the invisible ingredient

“Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing the staggering price our ancestors paid for civilization and political order

The first of the book’s three main parts finds Coates on his inaugural trip to Africa – a journey to Dakar