"Friendship as Social Justice Activism" brings together academics and activists to have essential conversations about friendship, love, and desire as kinetics for social justice movements. The contributors featured here come from across the globe and...

Banaphool – which means wildflower – was the pen name of beloved Bengali writer Balaichand Mukhopadhyay (1899-1979). "Wildfire" brings together forty-five short pieces by Banaphool that are brilliantly representative of his uncompromising, multifacet...

A young woman who has been living abroad returns to her hometown of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. Her sister Ines – a beautiful, impetuous painter – who still lives there, soon appears and promptly asks for financial help. But the returning sister kn...

"Ruven Preuk stands apart from the village, on an August day in 1911, and listens". Thus begins an epic bildungsroman about the life of Ruven Preuk, son of the wainwright, child of a sleepy village in Germany's north, where life is both simple and ha...

Bengali writer Riza Rahman is the author of more than fifty novels, as well as countless short stories, set in Bangladesh and bringing to life the difficult, mostly forgotten lives of its poorest and most disadvantaged citizens. "Letters of Blood" is...

Clowns are not just the stuff of backyard children's parties anymore. These days, clown doctors see patients – especially children – to introduce humor and imagination into an anxiety-filled and painful experience. The origins of medical clowning can...

This gripping novel brilliantly straddles the divide between thrillers and literature. Moinul Ahsan Saber here tells the story of Kobej Lethel, a ruthless soldier of fortune employed by a corrupt village chief. Lethel has never had a problem with the...

Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting works of the silent era, including "Strike", "October",...

Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting works of the silent era, including "Strike", "October",...

Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting works of the silent era, including "Strike", "October",...