
A History Of Reading
Tracing the complete story of reading from the age when symbol first became sign through to the electronic texts of the present day, Steven Roger F...
View full detailsTracing the complete story of reading from the age when symbol first became sign through to the electronic texts of the present day, Steven Roger F...
View full detailsAstounding is the landmark account of the extraordinary partnership between four controversial writers--John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. H...
View full detailsLanguage is humanity’s most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways tha...
View full detailsThree years before he died, David Bowie made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life - a list that formed something akin to a...
View full detailsIn this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk shares stories and generous advice on what makes writing power...
View full detailsFrom the internationally best-selling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, a spellbinding journey into the secrets of his art--the narratives ...
View full details‘The writer is the engineer of the human soul,' claimed Stalin. Although one wonders how many found nourishment in Turkmenbashi's Book of the Soul ...
View full details“The role of the critic,” Daniel Mendelsohn writes, “is to mediate intelligently and stylishly between a work and its audience; to educate and edif...
View full detailsIn this personal portrait of Edward Said written by a close friend, Dominique Edde offers a fascinating and fresh presentation of his oeuvre from h...
View full detailsTranslated by Will Schutt Ferrante's four-volume novel cycle known in English as the Neapolitan quartet has become a global success, with over ten ...
View full detailsThe names of T. S. Eliot, William Golding, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney are synonymous with the publishing house Faber & Faber, f...
View full detailsNo subject is too fringe or too mainstream for the unstoppable Zadie Smith. From social media to the environment, from Jay-Z to Karl Ove Knausgaard...
View full detailsSince its first publication in 1992, David Rattray's How I Became One of the Invisible has functioned as a kind of secret history and guidebook to ...
View full detailsA novel in seven volumes, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is considered a major literary work of the twentieth century. And even more crucia...
View full detailsFor Adam Phillips - as for Freud and many of his followers - poetry and poets have always held an essential place, as both precursors and unofficia...
View full detailsIn the first major biography of Baldwin in more than a decade, Bill V. Mullen celebrates the personal and political life of the great African-Ameri...
View full detailsSince its publication nearly 70 years ago, George Orwell's 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politici...
View full detailsIn Pirates and Publishers, Fei-Hsien Wang reveals the unknown social and cultural history of copyright in China from the 1890s through the 1950s, a...
View full detailsThe Chinese Revolution was a complex and protracted event staged by competing groups and individuals with different hopes and expectations. Its vet...
View full detailsThis is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary...
View full detailsTranslated by Lotfali KhonjiEdited by Valerie Miles The ruler of a totalitarian state seeks validation from a former schoolmate, now the nation's f...
View full detailsYou could describe D.H. Lawrence as the great multi-instrumentalist among the great writers of the twentieth century. He was a brilliant, endlessly...
View full detailsOver the past three years, the Mekong Review has transformed itself from an obscure magazine born in Cambodia to an acclaimed quarterly of culture ...
View full detailsMurder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intrigui...
View full detailsSince the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books. But in the twentieth-century despots enjoyed unprecedented print runs to (literall...
View full detailsWhen she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: a woman writing in a landscape dominated b...
View full detailsThe never-before-told story of one extremely rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible, and its impact on the lives of the fanatical few who were lucky enou...
View full detailsTwo centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral com...
View full detailsIn The Spider's Thread, Keith Holyoak looks at metaphor as a microcosm of the creative imagination. Holyoak, a psychologist and poet, draws on the ...
View full detailstranslated by Tess Lewis A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, "The Storyteller," this collec...
View full detailsIf Vasily Grossman's 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pastern...
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