“Over the years I have developed a distaste for the spectacle of joie de vivre, the knack of knowing how to live,” begins the title essay by Phillip Lopate. This rejoinder to the cult of hedonism and
This book provides an account of the vigorous survival of an Islamic community in the strife-torn borderlands of the lower Mekong delta and its creative accommodation to the modernising reforms of th
"Before ever setting out on my adventures in Yucatan I did not know that I was preparing to walk a spiritual path in that ancient country. Before going there I had not taken much account of my yearnin
How many of us have felt like Phillip Z? He has a staunch belief in the Twelve Steps, yet struggles with the concept of a Higher Power. In A Skeptic's Guide to the 12 Steps, the author investigates e
Poetry. Though known today mostly as an essayist, Phillip Lopate worked seriously as a poet for fifteen years during the 1970s and 1980s. As Henri Cole writes: "Phillip Lopate may be an American ambas
Most Americans are concerned about their politicians' inability to identify, much less solve their nation's problems. America Unraveled explores a number of America's most pressing social issues, the
The continueing story of Johnnie, a young skinhead; how he survives his ordeal of having had to jump ship in the frigid waters of Port Philip Bay and how he and Joe both find new loves. Set in Austral