“An ingenious revision” of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Gothic story told through the eyes of the fiend (The New York Times Book Review).Mr. Hyde is trapped, locked in Dr. Jekyll’s house, certain of his inevitable capture. As the dreadful hours pass, he has the chance, finally, to tell his side of the story—one of buried dreams and dark lusts, both liberating and obscured in the gaslit fog of Victorian London’s sordid backstreets.Summoned to li...

'Brilliant observations on the anthropology of power. You will laugh aloud and you won't put it down' Daniel KahnemanIn this eye-opening exploration of the human weaknesses for power, Daniel Levin takes us on a hilarious journey through the absurd world of our global elites, drawing unforgettable sketches of some of the puppets who stand guard, and the jugglers and conjurers employed within. Most spectacular of all, however, are the astonishing contortions performe...

Spanning more than three millennia, From Israel to Israel traces the extraordinary journey of the Jewish people from the rise of the ancient kingdom of Israel to the founding of the modern State of Israel. It is a story of faith, resilience, exile, and return - a testament to the endurance of memory and the unbreakable bond between a people and their destiny.This sweeping narrative brings to life the towering figures of Jewish history - kings, prophets, philosophers, and p...

The Holocaust: A Concise HistoryBy Daniel LevinThe Holocaust is often remembered through images of camps, gas chambers, and mass graves-scenes so overwhelming they can feel detached from ordinary history. This distance, while understandable, obscures a crucial truth: the Holocaust did not erupt suddenly or irrationally. It unfolded through a process.The Holocaust: A Concise History offers a clear, disciplined account of how genocide became possible in the heart of m...

Golda Meir: My Life for a Homeland is the extraordinary story of a girl who rose from the frozen streets of Kiev and the crowded tenements of Milwaukee to become one of the founding mothers of the State of Israel. In this moving, vivid, and slightly fictionalized autobiography, Golda's voice speaks with fierce honesty about fear, hope, and the unbreakable will to build a future from nothing but dreams.Born into a world where survival was never guaranteed and antise...

What sort of society could bind together Jacques Roubaud, Italo Calvino, Marcel Duchamp, and Raymond Queneau—and Daniel Levin Becker, a young American obsessed with language play? Only the Oulipo, the Paris-based experimental collective founded in 1960 and fated to become one of literature’s quirkiest movements.An international organization of writers, artists, and scientists who embrace formal and procedural constraints to achieve literature’s possibilities, the Oulipo (the French...

An “extraordinary” (Nylon) firsthand account of the creation of a modern cult and the costs paid by its young victims: a group of college roommates“Intense . . . [a tale] of hard-won survival, and creating a life after the unimaginable.”—SalonThe inspiration for the Hulu docuseries Stolen Youth, directed by Zach Heinzerling and co-produced by Daniel Barban LevinIn September 2010, at the be...

“The / drugs, the page, none of it is here. That was years ago,” Daniel Barban Levin writes in his debut collection of poems, trying to create an inventory of blank spaces, to describe the persistent presence — the psychological furniture — of what no longer exists. “There was a room. I lived there. / Now, I can’t find it anymore.”Written in the wake of the media storm surrounding the revelation of the Sarah Lawrence cult, interrogating the constructs of confessionalism and journal...

Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family's farm; his wife, Marion; their daughter, Ida; and their neighbour, Christine, an artist. While Patrice plans a surprise for his wife's fortieth birthday, inexplicable events start to disrupt the hamlet's quiet existence: anonymous, menacing letters, an unfamiliar car rolling up the driveway. And as night ...

The daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French humorist Éric Chevillard, published in English for the first timeÉric Chevillard is one of France’s leading stylists and thinkers, an endlessly inventive observer of the everyday whose erudition and imagination honor the legacy of Swift and Voltaire—with some good-natured postmodern twists.This ensemble of comic miniatures compiles reflections on chairs, stairs, stones, goldfish, objects found, st...

Sphinx is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly talented and inventive French author Anne Garréta, one of the few female members of Oulipo, the influential and exclusive French experimental literary group whose mission is to create literature based on mathematical and linguistic restraints, and whose ranks include Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, among others.A beautiful and complex love story between two characters, the narrator, "I,"...

This book surveys the legal issues confronting courts as they decide school desegregation cases, and the extent to which social science research has been brought to bear on those issues. It examines the relationship between school segregation and residential segregation.