{"product_id":"9780967967547","title":"Cries in the New Wilderness","description":"\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eMikhail Epstein was born in Moscow in 1950 and graduated from Moscow State  University summa cum laude in philology in 1972. He was the founder and  director of the Laboratory of Contemporary Culture in Moscow. In 1990,  Epstein moved to the United States, where he spent a year in Washington,  D.C., as a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center. He is now  Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at  Emory University.    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpstein's recent books in English include After the Future: Paradoxes of  Postmodernism and Contemporary Russian Culture; Russian Postmodernism: New  Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture (with two coauthors); and Transcultural  Experiments: Russian and American Models of Creative Communication (with  Ellen Berry). He is the author of 15 books and approximately 400 essays and  articles, translated into 14 languages. In 2000, Mikhail Epstein was the  recipient of the Liberty Prize, established in 1999 and awarded once a year  to prominent Russian cultural figures who have made an outstanding  contribution to American society. He has also received, among many other  awards, the 1995 Social Innovations Award from the Institute for Social  Inventions (London) for his electronic Bank of New Ideas, and the 1991  Andrei Belyi Prize (St. Petersburg) for the best work in literary criticism  and scholarship.    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEve Adler is professor of Classics at Middlebury College in Vermont. She has  authored (with Vladimir Shlyakhov) Russian Slang \u0026amp; Colloquial Expressions  and translated from German Philosophy and Law by Leo Strauss.    \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dry, Paul Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035015626992,"sku":"9780967967547","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780967967547_p0.jpg?v=1763879342","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780967967547","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}