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Offers insight into Tagore’s heavenly desires, his ongoing quest for Brahama Vihara, and illuminates the remarkable dive......more
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Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created disturbing stories out of Japan’s cultura......more
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The three sections of Bei Dao’s affecting new book of poems, Old Snow--"Berlin," "Oslo," "Stockholm"--are poignant remin......more
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This important and much-disputed essay edited by Ezra Pound from the manuscript of Ernest Fenollosa (and published in In......more