"As Americans enter the new century, their interest in the past has never been greater. In record numbers they visit museums and historic sites, attend commemor
Can today’s society, increasingly captivated by a constant flow of information, share a sense of history? How did our media-making forebears balance the tensi
Before his death in 2003, Bernard Williams planned to publish a collection of historical essays, focusing primarily on the ancient world. This posthumous volume
This book is a novel by the American writer Henry James, first published in 1917. The novel explores themes of time, memory, and the nature of art, and is notab
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closes