THE HEART OF THE MATTER IBD

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The Heart of the MatterMorris Berman wrote one of the best works of cultural history (theá&ldquo,Consciousness&rdquo, trilogy) and one of the best works of political history (theá&ldquo,American Decline&rdquo, trilogy) in recent decades. Since retiring, his output has been equally impressive: essays, memoirs, fiction, broad-gauged appraisals of Japanese and Italian culture. The stories in The Heart of the Matter, especially the title story, are astonishingly, even maniacally inventive. His imagination almost tires you out.á--George Scialabba, author of The Modern Predicament, How To Be Depressed, and other worksáA group of would-be moon travelers takes a time machine back to Los Alamos in 1945, disrupts the Manhattan Project, and heads off the Cold War. A woman of 24, and a man of 85, copy Gandhi',s practice of lying together naked without having sex. An archivist at the Met stumbles across a manuscript of Anaximenes, 6th century BC, which contains material that Plato apparently plagiarized. A 7-year-old boy gives his parents the slip and joins a traveling circus act, where he learns about love and magic. These are just a few of the delightfully fresh stories in Morris Berman',s new collection of page-turners, which are at once funny, erotic, droll, and politically incorrect. Guaranteed to have you laughing out loud on cold winter nights.áMorris Berman is the author of a number of books. His latest works, published by Echo Point Books, include Genio: The Story of Italian Genius, Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West, Are We There Yet?&mdash,Essays and Reflections, 2010 to 2017, and Spinning Straw into Gold: Straight Talk for Troubled Times.á