Christopher E.G. Benfey

War and the Iliad

War and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer's art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and death.Simone Weil's The Iliad, or the Poem of Force is one

The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan

Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival

A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain , Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade