John Merriman, editor

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Tawfiq al-Hakim, translated by Denys Johnson-Davies

Includes The Song of Death, The Sultan's Dilemma, and Not a Thing Out of Place, as well as the title play, an absurdist comedy.  More >

James Gibbs, editor

Distinguished scholars analyze the plays, poetry, and prose of Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. Introductory essays trace Soyinka’s career and place his work in the general context of African literature; the book also includes a definitive bibliography of his work and a chronology of his publications.  More >

Tayeb Salih, translated by Denys Johnson-Davies

Salih's shocking and beautiful novel reveals much about the people on each side of a cultural divide. A brilliant Sudanese student takes his mix of anger and obsession with the West to London, where he has affairs with women who are similarly obsessed with the mysterious East. Life, ecstasy, and death share the same moment in time. First published in Arabic in 1969.  More >

Mikel Dufrenne

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Henry Pleasants, editor and translator

Hugo Wolf (1860-1903), the renowned composer of German lieder, left another legacy to musical world. His musical criticism, which first appeared in the Wiener Salonblatt from 1884 to 1887, is now available to the English-speaking world, complete with annotations by music critic and author Henry Pleasants.  More >

Fouzi El-Asmar, translated by G. Kanazeh and Uri Davis

Poems of home and exile by Fouzi El-Asmar, a Palestinian poet and journalist. Most selections are presented in dual English/Arabic text.  More >

Nicholas Kaldor

Among topics discussed are the new monetarism, the international monetary payments system, the economics of development (with reference to chronic inflation suffered by certain Latin American countries), Britain's long economic decline, and Britain's entry into the Common Market.  More >

Egon Klemp, compiler and editor

This lavish volume charts the course of exploration and settlement in the Americas with maps found in major museums and libraries around the world. Reproduced with painstaking accuracy, the maps are accompanied by scholarly commentary prepared by Egon Klemp, who describes the history of each  map and the discoveries that generated it. The maps are grouped by region, placed in chronological  More >

Nehemia Levtzion, editor

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