A book dedication is a note in the front matter that expresses the author's gratitude to someone who may have supported or inspired them. They're often unremarkable ("To mother"), but hidden in the first pages of many books are flashes of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it brilliance. Knowing...
and about black culture. The project aims to create a space around books as a cultural currency, and consists of creative workshops, a reading lounge and book barter. The project will begin at theArts Incubatorin Washington Park this spring, and with support, will continue through ...
I have dwelt so long on this subject, that I must contract what I have to say in reference to my translation, unless I would swell my preface into a volume, and make it formidable to your Lordship, when you see so many pages yet behind. And indeed what I have already written, either...
The convergence of technical, scholarly and mysti- cal discourse in just a few pages, with the complicated symbiosis that exists between these different schools of thought, makes an accurate rendition or simplification of this material virtually im- possible. Even when reading the original, a ...