A collection of stories that trace the threads of loss and displacement running through all our lives, by the acclaimed, award-winning author of The Theory of Light and Matter

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After surviving the most dangerous mission of his career, John Dempsey is back at Ember. But Ember has changed--and so has he. Meanwhile, a new adversary sees an opportunity to…

This study surveys the growth of European intervention outside Europe between 1860 and 1914. It treats its subject, ‘imperialism’, as a process of increasing contact, influence and control. The problems…

These 10 short stories explore loss and sacrifice in American suburbia. In idyllic suburbs across the country, narrators struggle to find meaning or value in their lives because of–or in…

All the hard questions about human action are about what to include in a story, what can be left out, and how to characterize what gets included. A narrative selects…

Transcendence is commonly taken to be about another world, one that transcends this one. Instead, I would say that transcendence is about unanswerable questions, and unanswerable questions arise naturally in…

What if you wanted to treat all of life as good, in full view of its pains? It is not ‘simply’ that all of life is good, because its pains…

In 55 years of teaching in both high school and college, I’ve always wondered why American history is presented the way it is. History texts try to cover the big…