Written when Austen was still an adolescent, Frederic and Elfrida is a witty and inventive parody...
Life is struggle. From the howling wilderness of the Yukon to the brutal arenas of man, White Fan...
Beowulf endures as one of the most powerful expressions of myth, memory, and mortal reckoning--a ...
The Sixth Desert is a bold, propulsive literary epic--part family saga, part Hollywood tragedy, p...
When Margaret Hale is uprooted from the quiet gentility of southern England and thrust into the i...
A collection of ritual texts, parables, and performances from one of the most singular voices in ...
The Naturing Cosmos inaugurates a major new dialogue between philosophy, design theory, and ecology.
'Death is insignificantly divergent from life.' At once philosophical and visceral, Homes of Hade...
For over three decades, Art International was the beating heart of the post-war art world--a maga...
A whirlwind tour of two and a half millennia--told in 100 razor-sharp haiku. In this audacious po...
Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961) was already a comet in European letters when the First World War shat...
'I found it terrible, yet at the same time touching, for in all the years of the war I had not se...
We are at one of those turning points that divide history into a 'before' and an 'after.' The ong...
William Hazlitt's essay on the ludicrousness of monarchy shows him at his best.
Wilfully Blind is an unforgettable account of what has gone wrong in the art world, and of what c...
'It comes as a great shock to discover that the country which is your birthplace and to which you...
Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eig...
In The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini reimagines Dante's descent into Hell not as allegory but as lived...
This wicked, brilliant fragment defends makeup not as deception but as devotion: a ritual rebelli...
In this wide-ranging and characteristically fearless exchange, Margaret Atwood sits down in Athen...
A conversation of rare depth and tenderness, On the Fragility of Life finds Nick Cave reflecting ...
Denouncing racism and celebrating diversity have become central to progressive politics. For many...
This Edition of Nietzsche's work serves to redress the comparative neglect that this seminal text...
In this autobiographical essay, Danish poet Søren Ulrik Thomsen returns to the place--and the yea...
Long neglected by art historians, Anna-Eva Bergman (1909-87) was a painter of major importance wh...
'There is a common fallacy that is oddly and sadly even more widespread amongst non-philosophers ...
Stephen Leacock writes a masterful account of how humour works¿and of how it very often doesn¿t.
¿Over the mountains I come,¿ said Nunez, ¿out of the country beyond there¿where men can see. From...
In this incendiary fragment, Karl Marx turns bourgeois morality on its head. Crime, he argues, is...
In an era when intellectual and artistic life is increasingly being distorted by political dogmat...
'Considering the emphasis in Said's critical work on space and place and the political importance...
This book places artworks by Kenneth Goldsmith side-by-side with the original text of Wittgenstei...
An anthology from the radical group that reoriented critical revolutionary theory by affirming th...
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 English for the first time, the letters that Modersohn-Becker and Rilke sent to one another
In Individualism and Conformism in the United States, Sartre probes the paradox at the heart of A...
Why do we laugh? What does comedy reveal about human nature, society, and the mind's strange elas...
Virginia Woolf's third novel is an unconventional literary portrait of its title character--an aw...
A Collection of Robert Musil's essays, addresses, aphorisms, and unpublished notes on current eve...
Orwell read Hitler--and believed him. In this blistering review from 1940, he lays out what most ...
Bishop Budde's address stands as a calm but resonant call for compassion in an increasingly vicio...
The 1854 speech traditionally attributed to Chief Seattle of the Duwamish Tribe is a vital docume...
The philosopher Antonio Negri was one of the preeminent thinkers of our time: his writings on cla...
'I felt a warm rasping at my throat, then came a consciousness of the awful truth, which chilled ...