In Praise of Shadows and Other Essays

In Praise of Shadows and Other Essays"In Praise of Shadows belongs to that special order of slim, enormously powerful books that enchant the lay reader with an esoteric subject, leaving a lifelong imprint on the imagination." Maria Popova Illustrated with artful images by renowned Kyoto based photographer John Einarsen, this book is a "must have" for all fans of Japanese literature and anyone interested in Japanese art and design. These all new translations of four landmark essays by

Profound and moving

Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form—small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and

A place where women can walk without harassment

and linguists and historians based in Australia

William Faulkner

characters

For people of color denied the same privileges

" This is not a basic guide

ever been in the exact same order

He offers a politically charged re-reading of history

fractals and the weirder worlds of Hamiltonian cycles and hyperbolic geometry

worlds in motion