On the last night of 1937
Diverging from the long-standing custom of separating Thoreau's politics from his interest in nature
"--Neil Patrick Harris
What I love most about Animal Farm is its ability to offer profound insights into political regimes and totalitarianism
a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places Buddhism On the last night of"I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind," writes Ursula Le Guin in her introduction to Dancing at the Edge of the World. But she has, and here is the record of that change in the decade since the publication of her last nonfiction collection, The Language of the Night. And what a mind strong, supple, disciplined, playful, ranging over the whole field of its concerns, from modern literature to menopause, from utopian