Looks at the theories about Christian origins and church history suggested in the novel, "The Da Vinci Code," and explains how they ignore or misinterpret the available information as it has been understood in Catholic tradition.

Bevat ook de verhalen uit de bundel 'Het rijk van Bittertong' (1932). Omslag Robert Nix. Sumatra.

A bold exploration of the controversial role that black women writers have played in the making of African-American literature by the bestselling author of Sex and Racism in America. "Confirms that black women authors are celebrating a literary Fourth of July in America".--Plain Dealer. (Anchor)

A cultural history of a famous collaboration, Virgil Thomson's and Gertrude Stein's making of the modernist opera, Four Saints in Three Acts. Watson explores the transatlantic, commercial, racial, gay, and artistic aspects of this story (NewYork/Paris, with Kansas City thrown in for fun; Thomson's score echoes the very American rhythms of his youth). Juicy, smart, and sophisticated writing and analysis.

Met in de 'voliere' onder andere Arthur van Schendel, Ter Braak en Du Perron, van Nijlen, Marsman, Slauerhoff, Bloem, die de schrijver  beschouwt als vogels van diverse pluimage..

Western feminists have in the past singled out the veiling of women as a potent symbol of women’s oppression under Islam. Daphne Grace explores the far more complex and contested role of veiling over the last 120 years. Looking at the ways in which the veil is used in literature, and its representations in writing from the East and the West, she shows how veiling has come to stand for both oppression and resistance. Grace asks why, at the start of the new millennium, veiling seems more popular than ever – and explores what veiling means for the women themselves.Chapters are arranged geographically and chronologically, beginning with the 'imperial gaze' of Victorian England, moving to the Arab Islamic world of the Middle East and the Maghreb and finally to India, in the process exploring the nationalist, religious, political and cultural meanings of the veil in its many manifestations, then and now.

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