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...Harvard University Press (HU Press)) began composing a reference book that attempts to redefine the standard approach to writing about America’s literary history, from foundation to modern-day. Aided by an editorial board and an impressive list of contributors, their creation is a 200-essay compendium they named “A Literary History of America.” Touching upon subjects from “The Scarlet Letter” to the Star Spangled Banner, the Winchester rifle to cybernetics, the essays begin with a focused analysis of one incident or figure and then extend outwards...
Wilt Idema, chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, noted that the Encyclopedia was intended as “a complete compendium of human knowledge” at the time...
...addition to aiding researchers, the Review should benefit from placement in this prominent online compendium, said Laura Farwell Blake, interim head of research services in Lamont Library. “This puts the Harvard Review in the company of the journals in JSTOR, and that’s a good place to be. It brings a local resource very much into the global world...
...address some of the mysteries of Jewish sexuality. “This is meant to be a playground for new thinking on Jewish sex,” Ruttenberg said of her book. “I just sort of convened the conversation.” The book, a compendium of essays from leading Jewish and non-Jewish academics on topics ranging from masturbation to modesty, was published in June by New York University Press. Yet despite the academic credentials of the authors who penned most of the book’s essays, Ruttenberg said that she designed The Passionate Torah...
...hardbound, with glossy pages, offering glimpses of supremely stylish natives amid their glamorous lives. Its basic unit of currency would be the family, of course, rather than the individual. Italian Touch, a 368-page book released this month by the Italian fashion company Tod's, is just such a compendium. Edited by journalist Donata Sartorio and with photographs by Paolo Leone, the book captures the lives, ambitions and traditions of more than a hundred families, many well known from the society and business pages. Sartorio calls the on-the-go famiglie "moccasin people." Representing la dolce vita on each member...