Essays

In this collection of essays on the work of, and conversations with, John Berger, thirty-seven of his friends, artistic collaborators and followers...

Reality versus fiction is at the heart of the current literary debate. We live in a world of docu-drama, the ‘real life’ story. Works of art, novel...

Arthur Miller was not only one of America's most important twentieth-century playwrights, but he was also one of its most influential literary, cul...

'Language is a body, a living creature ... and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revoluti...

In Junkspace, architect Rem Koolhaas itemised in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is here updated and...

Let Me Tell You brings together the brilliantly eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with frank and inspiring lectures on writing; comic e...

In this extraordinary memoir, neuroscientist Andrew Lees explains how William Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and troubled drug addict, played an ...

Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and another ...

Bread is an object that is always in process of becoming something else: flower to grain, grain to dough, dough to loaf, loaf to crumb. Bread is al...

Smokers, survivalists, teenagers, collectors… The cigarette lighter is a charged, complex, yet often entirely disposable object that moves across t...

Hair, a primary marker of our mammalian nature, is an extraordinary indicator of economic and social standing, political orientation, religious aff...

We all wear hoods: the Grim Reaper, Red Riding Hood, torturers, executioners and the executed, athletes, laborers, anarchists, rappers, babies in o...

The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there,...

"What is Singapore’s Next Big Thing?" An intellectual salvo from young and passionate Singaporeans inhabiting different slices of Singapore society...

In his latest collection of essays, author, physician and humanist philosopher Raymond Tallis meditates on the wonder of human consciousness, free ...

In these provocative, powerful essays acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang (Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, Who We Be) takes an incisive and wide-ranging ...

Identity has never been so much in the spotlight – or rather its vulnerability and fragility in a digital culture that breaches the normal firewall...