A soul that can transcend three millennia and travel beyond physical boundaries, visits England in 1593 to interrogate a poet.Considering the sexist pen that the poet used in one specific play and its cultural ripple effect that could impact women's rights in the future, the soul torments the playwright through a cross-examination.

In 2013, the tyrant of Iran, Ali Khamenei wakes up after a prophetic dream. Panicked, he calls his estranged wife, and the debating conversation exposes a connection between his dream and a satanic secret of Islam.On that very morning a deaf-mute oracle, sequestered in solitary confinement by the regim for two decades, predicts the dictator's dream on the wall of his prison cell: the rise of a man who will build one empire and destroy another.

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize winning author presents the stories of a wide range of Muslim women in the Middle East. As an Australian American and an experienced foreign correspondent, Brooks' thoughtful analysis attempts to understand the precarious status of women in the wake of Islamic fundamentalism."Frank, enraging, and captivating." - The New York TimesNine Parts of Desire is the story of Brooks' intrepi...

A previously unknown and unpublished tale, by respected scholar and novelist Kathleen Herbert, who retells Guinevere's story from her point of view. This is a view of Guinevere which speaks to our age.

"Absorbing . . . a testament to the ways in which narrative truth-telling—from the greatest works of literature to the most intimate family stories—sustains and strengthens us.”—O: The Oprah MagazineIn this stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, Azar Nafisi shares her memories of living in thrall to a powerful and complex mother against the backdrop of a country’s political revolution. A girl’s pain over family secrets, a young woman’s discovery of...

Now, a remarkable anthology brings together 104 Urdu poems of the celebrated Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz (newly translated to English by Dr. Khalid Hameed Shaida). Born one hundred years ago in Sialkot, one of Pakistan’s cradles of poetry, Faiz’s mastery of the classical traditions of preceding generations of poets arose from the exhaustive study of works in Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi, Arabic, Persian, and English. But he was not content to limit himself to aesthetics and form, and over the c...

A Syrian-born female psychologist speaks out against the evil of radical Islam: "Forged in justifiable anger, this [is a] flamethrower of a book" ( Kirkus Reviews).On Feb. 21, 2006, Wafa Sultan gave one of the most provocative interviews ever given by a Muslim woman on the Al Jazeera network. In the middle of the interview, she told her male Muslim interviewer that it was her turn to speak. And she did. She told him to "shut up".This simple yet radic...

"In this satisfying, lyrical memoir," an American woman discovers her true faith—and true love—by converting to Islam and moving to Egypt ( Publishers Weekly).Raised in Boulder, Colorado, G. Willow Wilson moved to Egypt and converted to Islam shortly after college. Having written extensively on modern religion and the Middle East in publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times Magazine, Wilson now shares her remarkable...

In a secluded garden, a diary holds the final, ecstatic secret of a dark initiation.The White People is perhaps Arthur Machen's most celebrated and haunting work, taking the form of a frame narrative that presents a single, terrifying manuscript: the diary of a young girl.The story begins with two men discussing the nature of sin and innocence, leading one to produce a handwritten notebook left behind by a girl who...

What does ISIS really want? This is the definitive account of the strategy, psychology, and fundamentalism driving the Islamic State.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS •“Worthy of Joseph Conrad . . . gripping, sobering and revelatory.”—Tom Holland, New StatesmanThe Islamic State inspired a wave of true believers to travel to Syria from Europe, America, and the Middle East, in numbers not seen since ...

Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. This selection includes almost all of his short stories, including "The Canterville Ghost," "The Fisherman and his Soul," and "The Remarkable Rocket."Alongside THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE, Harper Perennial will publish the short fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, Leo ...