A lavishly illustrated volume is the authoritative biography of a consummate self-portraitist and...

The Naturing Cosmos inaugurates a major new dialogue between philosophy, design theory, and ecology.

Phrases presents the spoken language from six films by Jean-Luc Godard. Gathered here, in written...

A lavishly illustrated volume is the authoritative biography of a consummate self-portraitist and...

Phrases presents the spoken language from six films by Jean-Luc Godard. Gathered here, in written...

Miklós Szentkuthy uses Casanova's memoirs as a springboard for something far stranger: a swirling...

Miklós Szentkuthy uses Casanova's memoirs as a springboard for something far stranger: a swirling...

The Sixth Desert is a bold, propulsive literary epic--part family saga, part Hollywood tragedy, p...

In this autobiographical essay, Danish poet Søren Ulrik Thomsen returns to the place--and the yea...

A masterwork of poetic urban observation, The Stroller of Paris is Léon-Paul Fargue's luminous lo...

A masterwork of poetic urban observation, The Stroller of Paris is Léon-Paul Fargue's luminous lo...

Wild Things is a book about loss and about the radical clarity that comes when everything falls away

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's luminous meditation on traditional Japanese aesthetics finds unexpected bea...

Ranging from ancient philosophy to pandemic politics, Agamben's profound and disquieting essay di...

In this incendiary fragment, Karl Marx turns bourgeois morality on its head. Crime, he argues, is...

In a world of forbidden magic, two wolves fight for a lost soul. All Clarisse wants is to be free...

Almost 40% of the world's population play video games. Whether on smartphones, consoles or PCs, t...

Quasi il 40% della popolazione mondiale gioca ai videogiochi. Che si tratti di smartphone, consol...

Près de 40% de la population mondiale joue aux jeux vidéo. Que ce soit sur smartphone, sur consol...

In a world where shadows whisper promises of power and every flame casts a darker truth, A Shadow...

Dans l'espace liminal entre la flamme et l'ombre, chaque choix porte le poids de mille conséquenc...

Forgotten by the gods, Adelaide forges her power in the sweet judgment of the sword - her only we...

Paris Spleen is one of the first modern books--formally experimental, morally ambivalent, and rel...

Paris Spleen is one of the first modern books--formally experimental, morally ambivalent, and rel...

In this volume, Agamben has collected all of his fierce, passionate, and deeply personal interven...

This book offers an incisive account of interwar Europe and a warning against the lure of tribal ...

In this volume, Michael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon's long-time friend and biographer, has gathered B...

This book argues against the establishment of a demographically representative social elite, and ...

Baron d¿Holbach¿s 1776 Essay on the Art of Crawling is a delicious satire on the sycophancy and s...

Stephen Leacock writes a masterful account of how humour works¿and of how it very often doesn¿t.

In this short story H.G. Wells conducts a thought experiment. What would become of a community if...

Benjamin offers a personal meditation on his career as a book collector and on the strange relati...

Read the authors discussing their approaches to the craft of writing, the origins of their charac...

In 1931 Lauro de Bosis flew over Rome in a small plane in order to scatter anti-Fascist pamphlets...

Edith Wharton offers a scathing attack on ¿mechanical¿ readers who are having a disastrous impact...

¿More than any other technical design or social institution, the railway stands for modernity.¿ I...

'The drunkard who comes out with an absurd order, the dreamer who suddenly wakes and with his bar...

When Zweig's anonymous narrator sets off to the provinces in search of a lucrative bargain, he fi...

Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eig...

'A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome ...

This book places artworks by Kenneth Goldsmith side-by-side with the original text of Wittgenstei...

Avigdor Arikha was one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. He was born in Rom...

Long neglected by art historians, Anna-Eva Bergman (1909-87) was a painter of major importance wh...

A highly distinctive artistic collaboration and a haunting meditation on religion, violence, and ...

Brilliant and unsparing essays on the blind spots and maladies of contemporary culture.

An anthology from the radical group that reoriented critical revolutionary theory by affirming th...

'We knew very little with any certainty. One thing, though, was confirmed by everyone: that we we...

The 1854 speech traditionally attributed to Chief Seattle of the Duwamish Tribe is a vital docume...