The Complete Works of Ricardo ReisHere is the fourth in a series of volumes by Fernando Pessoa's celebrated "heteronyms," a coterie of writers that Pessoa created and conceived as distinct personalities, each with a unique literary style. Ricardo Reis was imagined as a melancholic doctor "with a darkish complexion," a self taught Hellenist who exiled himself in Brazil because he was a monarchist. In a 1914 letter to Pessoa, the writer Mrio S Carneiro described Reis's odes as

far more than this

panoramas and phantasmagorias

revealing how a small region of medieval Europe transformed itself into a powerhouse of sustained economic growth

Chee Zi Yun

Former monk Ryunosuke Koike shows how

From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance

The volume ends by asking what may happen if China comes to rule the waves of Asia

alert to a possible menace lurking in the trees

a global call to action that tells us “why the past is a frontline in the struggle for a future free of fascism” (Jeff Sharlet

He seemed marked for a successful and conventional academic career

and in the history of those who made

Jews must tell a new story