Books

With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the bu...

by Jonathan Edwards Highly respected preacher and founder of the First Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards, teaches on charity, and love. The most th...

When change requires you to challenge people's familiar reality, it can be difficult, dangerous work. Whatever the context--whether in the private...

This book highlights encouraging news about programs that produce better outcomes for disadvantaged children and families. It includes a comprehen...

It's hard to be in the minority. If you're the only person from your ethnic or cultural background in your organization or team, you probably know...

Everybody wants to live a better life. Whether we are graduating college or encountering post-retirement opportunities and challenges, we want to ...

This marvelous collection of over 60 pithy essays inspired by Visser’s column in Saturday Night magazine explores the cultural significance of eve...

by Ian Ross Winner of the Governor General's Award. Life is tense on the Partridge Crop Reserve. The Chief is in Las Vegas (again), the band is in ...

by Aime Cesaire A troupe of black actors perform their own Tempest. Cesaire’s rich and insightful adaptation draws on contemporary Caribbean societ...

by J.B. Priestley "An Inspector Calls", first produced in 1946 when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has recently enjoyed an enormo...

by Joy Kogawa Gently to Nagasaki is a spiritual pilgrimage, an exploration both communal and intensely personal. Set in Vancouver and Toronto, the ...

This extraordinary new play by an exciting new voice in the American drama was runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize. After its acclaimed run at Yale R...

Interest in Kierkegaards writings continue decade after decade as generation after generation of readers discover their relevance. Kierkegaard wro...

Recently revived at New York's Circle in the Square, where Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly alternated playing the roles of the brothers, this A...

When a Salvation Army officer learns that her father a wealthy Armaments manufacturer has donated lots of money to her ORGANIZATION she resigns in...

by Oscar Wilde Although Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) created a wide range of poetry, essays, and fairy tales (and one novel) in his brief, tragic life, ...

This 1884 masterpiece may have its genesis in the hostile reception Ibsen — widely regarded as the father of modern realist drama — had received f...

by Sophocles In his long life, Sophocles (born ca. 496 B.C., died after 413) wrote more than one hundred plays. Of these, seven complete tragedies ...

The plays of John Millington Synge (1871–1909) are filled with the humors, sorrows, and dreams of the country folk of the Aran Islands and the wes...

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medea centers on the myth of Jason, leader of the Argonauts, who has won the dragon-guar...

This is the biography of an American slave who was born in Africa. His adventures took him to Rio de Janeiro, New York, Boston, Canada, and Britai...

Stormy Seas combines a vivid and contemporary collage-based design with dramatic storytelling to produce a book that makes for riveting reading as...

The intrigues of such aptly named characters as Lady Sneerwell, Sir Joseph Surface, Lady Candour, and Sir Benjamin Backbite have amused theater au...