Fringed by the two great rivers of Central Asia, the Oxus and the Jaxartes, Tajikistan can boast not only of breathtaking mountain scenery, but also 3,000 years of history. The land where Alexander the Great fought desperately against the Scythian nomads, his most formidable adversaries, Tajikistan [...]
The Swiss writer of whom Hermann Hesse famously declared, 'If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place', Robert Walser (1878-1956) is only now finding an audience among English-speaking readers commensurate with his merits - if not with his self-image. After a wandering, [...]
Concept Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) is a unique, classroom-tested model of reading instruction that breaks new ground by explicitly showing how content knowledge, reading strategies, and motivational support all merge in successful reading instruction. A theoretical perspective (engagement i[...]
In a small, exquisite clothbound format resembling the early Swiss and German editions of Walser s work, Thirty Poems collects famed translator Christopher Middleton s favorite poems from the more than five hundred Walser wrote. The illustrations range from an early poem in perfect copperplate handw[...]
A pseudo-biographical stroll through town and countryside rife with philosophical musings, The Walk has been hailed as the masterpiece of Walser s short prose. Walking features heavily in his writing, but nowhere else is it as elegantly considered. Without walking, I would be dead, Walser explains, [...]
A Little Ramble: In the Spirit of Robert Walser is a project initiated by the gallerist Donald Young, who saw in Walser an exemplary figure through whom connections between art and literature could be discussed anew. He invited a group of artists to respond to Walser's writing. A Little Ramble is a [...]