First published in German in 1905, Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours: Prayers to a Lowly God has not been wholly translated into English in more than 40 years. Annemarie S. Kidder, a native ...

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the mystical Austrian Rainer Maria Rilke was one of the most widely read poets in Europe. However, in the near-century since his death, the works of Rilke ...

I inherited many books from my older brothers—esoteric books from the 1970s on running and weightlifting, and Pietro di Donato’s classic novel Christ in Concrete, about an Italian immigrant family of ...