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The author emphasizes Adrienne Harris's skillful use of autobiographical material in his writing, an aspect that contributes to making it a remarkable essay. He also argues that any psychoanalytic writing about is invariably autobiographical, and that this is also the way, in Walter Benjamin's phrase, to move from mere chronicle to history. Nothing in a psychoanalytic essay tastes true unless it has first been immersed in the subjectivity of the narrator. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Keats's Reading/ Reading Keats" is a collection of essays that explores John Keats's reading practices and his engagement with other authors. The essays challenge the idea of Keats as a solitary poet and instead highlight his interactions with contemporaries. The book also examines how later poets were influenced by Keats's writings. The essays delve into Keats's appreciation for musicality in poetry, his ability to hear his own lines as he wrote, and his exploration of gender and existential dilemmas. The collection concludes with original poems and reflections on Keats's legacy. Overall, "Keats's Reading/ Reading Keats" offers valuable insights into Keats's creative process and his impact on the poetic tradition. [Extracted from the article]

"A Unique People in a Unique Land: Essays on American Jewish History" by Edward S. Shapiro explores the relationship between Jewish culture, religious observance, and American society. The book examines the various aspects of Jewishness and Judaism in the United States, including identity, religious affiliation, and the role of wealthy Jewish business owners and philanthropists. The collection of essays, written between 1984 and 2014, provides a historical perspective on American Jewish history and the evolving perspectives within the Jewish academic community. While some of the essays may be outdated and not aligned with contemporary scholarship, they offer insights into a conservative political perspective on American Judaism and its evolution. [Extracted from the article]

The book "Salt in the Coffee Cup: Notes on Creation and Writing" by Carlos Fajardo Fajardo is a reflection on poetic creation and the ethical role of the poet in a degraded world. The author emphasizes the importance of reading as part of the process of understanding and projecting the fictional worlds created by the work. The author's writing style is characterized by short texts, essays, and aphorisms. The text analyzes the poet's creative process and their role in society today, as well as the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in their work. It also mentions the influence of various authors in the text and highlights the importance of reading as a way to understand culture. In the end, it concludes that the poet possesses a method and that their work seeks to transcend death and provide serenity to the reader. [Extracted from the article]

Medical Services and Warfare is a subscription-based web database published by Adam Matthew Digital that contains digitized historical documents, such as biographies, essays, medical records, charts, and maps that pertain to major wars throughout the centuries. This includes the Crimean War, American Civil War, and other conflicts. The information covered within this platform's period date ranges from 1850 to 1949. These materials give a front line view of how the battlefield, and its casualties, helped shape modern medicine through medical developments, such as anesthesia, prosthetics, antibiotics, and hygiene and sanitation. This review will assess the layout of the database, content, help, and searching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"The New Public Art: Collectivity and Activism in Mexico since the 1980s" is a book edited by Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra that explores the evolution of public art in Mexico. The collection of essays challenges the traditional associations of public art with state-sponsored and monumental forms of expression, instead focusing on themes such as site-specificity, feminism, antiracism, and migrant poetics. The book highlights the diverse perspectives and voices that contribute to the Mexican public sphere, including Afro-diasporic and Indigenous traditions. It also raises questions about the role of art in shaping a more inclusive and democratic society. [Extracted from the article]

Thomas Hurka's I Games, Sports, and Play i is a collection of essays with two seemingly cohesive aims. It is intended to be both (1) a conference proceeding focused on the work of the late Bernard Suits and (2) a printing of the first posthumously released original work by Suits in the thirteen years since his passing. [Extracted from the article]

The text is a review of the book "Oligarchic Structures and Majority Faction: Philosophical Essays on Morals, History and Politics" written by Howard G. Callaway. The author analyzes American politics from a historical-political perspective and highlights the importance of addressing the variations and peculiarities of human values in social order. The book is divided into chapters that address topics such as oligarchic structures, factionalism, and political representation. The author also provides a historical overview of the consolidation of the American Union and analyzes the Hegelian influences on the thinking of Josiah Royce. The last chapters focus on the 20th century and the present, addressing topics such as romanticism, European integration, and the current risks of liberal democracy. [Extracted from the article]

The text is a review of the book "The Zero Degree of Politics and Other Essays on Democracy in Mexico" written by Alfonso Vázquez Salazar. The author reflects on democracy in Mexico and its process of reconfiguration in recent years. The book is divided into four thematic axes that address the relationship between philosophy and politics, politics and democracy in Mexico, the electoral process, and the future of democracy in the country. The author highlights the importance of political reflection to understand national life and poses new interpretive challenges for the current Mexican reality. [Extracted from the article]

The acclaimed author discusses influential authors, her native Haiti, and the challenges of life in America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A writer and translator explores the relationship between human presence and place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The book "Contemporary Hispanic-American Poets: Poetics and Metapoetics (XXXXI centuries)" edited by Milena Rodríguez Gutiérrez is the result of a research project on Hispanic-American poets and their contribution to contemporary poetic tradition. The book includes thirteen essays that explore the continuity of the subgenre of "poetic art" in poetry written by women, as well as its exclusion in the metapoetic canon of Hispanic-American literature. The essays address concepts such as metalanguage, metaliterature, and metapoetry, and review the Hispanic-American metapoetic canon from José Martí and Rubén Darío to Jorge Luis Borges. The book highlights the importance of metapoetry in contemporary Hispanic-American poetic tradition written by women, and analyzes works by specific authors such as Gabriela Mistral, Winétt de Rokha, Carmen Ollé, and Victoria Guerrero, among others. [Extracted from the article]