Essays, Anthologies, Letters & Prose

More than just a book, A Time of Living Graciously is a celebration of life's rich tapestry, woven with threads of loving kindness and wisdom. Brigid Lowry's insights into ageing...

A hilarious, delightfully subversive essay collection from Laci Mosley, host of the award-winning "Scam Goddess" podcast, about the frauds, cons, and schemes that make up our world-and how the scammer...

A powerful new anthology of feminist voices throughout history and from around the world The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing selects writing from across time and throughout the world, creating...

In following the format of the series, this book traces the connection between the life and writing career of Virginia Woolf. An upbringing of male domination and bouts of depression...

Fascinated by word play, Leonardo created a series of riddles, cleverly disguised as apocalyptic prophecies and fantasies. The 'solution' to each of these inspired sayings - often simply the image...

For the past two decades, Mark Danner has reported from Latin America, Haiti, the Balkans, and the Middle East. His perceptive, award-winning dispatches have not only explored the real consequences...

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Gore Vidal called him the century's "greatest English-language critic". Anthony Burgess hailed him as "our best literary critic". Now, at last, all of Pritchett's best literary essays are collected here...

"Long may he continue to divert us, " said "The New York Times" Book Review on its front page of Robertson Davies

'Hardwick's sentences are burned in my brain.' - Susan Sontag Sidelined. Betrayed. Killed off. Elizabeth Hardwick dissects the history of women and literature. In her most virtuoso work of criticism,...

Spanning the years in which Virginia Woolf penned her classic novel The Waves and worked on Flush , the nonfiction pieces in this fifth volume provide further insight into Woolf's...

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The second volume in the Auden Studies Series, The Language of Learning and the Language of Love considers Auden primarily during the first decade of his literary career as a...

Twenty five works make up this collection. Playwright David Milroy's story, Walardu and Karla, draws on an Aboriginal legend of Karla, the fire that 'had burned for more than twenty...

Six essays and one address outline Emerson's moral idealism and hint at later scepticism. In addition to title essay, this volume includes "History," "Friendship," "The Over-Soul," "The Poet" and "Experience,"...

Sport has always played a large part in British social life. In this selection, ranging from John Donne to John Arlott, Vernon Scannell, himself a former boxer and lifelong devotee...

In this perceptive series of lectures Doris Lessing explores the strange phenomenon that although, today, we know a lot more about ourselves very little of this knowledge has been put...

This is a collection of essays, charting five critical decades in the history of Czechoslovakia. Ivan Klima was a witness to the horrors of Nazi occupation, to the Stalinist regimes...

"Funny and shrewd" ( The New York Times Book Review ) essays from China's most popular young troublemaker about growing up millennial and causing social and political scandal today. Han...

In this eloquent collection, award-winning writers from the United States, Canada, the UK and Australia describe a personal encounter with the natural world that moved them, enhanced their understanding of...

This is the first ever translation of a work by one of the most notorious figures of Renaissance Italy, followed by the fascinating account of Francesco Bibbone, Lorenzino's own murderer,...

Paul Eluard's well-known remark, "There are other worlds, but they're all in this one" borrows from a tradition that supposes the co-existence and simultaneity of different planes of creation. It...

A collection of some of Spike Milligan's most recent articles in which he brandishes his quill at a selection of his passions, frustations, interests and experiences, ranging from antiques to...

A wonderful and coherent selection from the writings of a great author This collection of V.S. Naipaul's essays, the first of two volumes, showcases a lifetime of intelligent and profoundly...

A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic - a personal and intellectual awakening. Karl Kraus: satirist. Controversialist. Forgotten voice of the early twentieth century. Jonathan Franzen: bestseller....

In the early 1920s, the last great age of world explorers, a remarkable young woman, Janet Elliott Wulsin, set out with her husband, Frederick Wulsin, for the far reaches of...

Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughteris an eruption from the unconscious that, like political resistance, poetry, orself-revelation, expresses a provocative, impish drive to burst...

In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne's annual conference in Paris. Standing up in front...

'I write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the frigid, the unfucked and the unfuckables, all those excluded from the great meat market of female flesh, and...

While thinking and writing, she weaves together disparate writers and artists - Mary Wollstonecraft, Jean Genet, Virginia Woolf, Janet Malcolm, Chantal Akerman, and Roland Barthes, among many others - in...

A deeply moving and revelatory reading experience, the essays collected in Portrait of an Island on Fire form a searing account of Mauritius at a crucial moment in its history....

In Dysphoria Mundi, Paul B. Preciado has written a mutant text assembled from essays, philosophy, poetry and autofiction that captures a moment of profound change and possibility. Rooted in the...

In his foreword to The Ways of Paradise, Peter Cornell presents this so-called found manuscript, the work of a now-deceased, obscure researcher who spent three decades in the National Library...

In 1937, Elias Canetti began collecting notes for the project that 'by definition, he could never live to complete', as translator Peter Filkins writes in his afterword. The Book Against...

In Affinities, Brian Dillon explores images and artists he is drawn to or loves, and tries to analyse the attraction. What do we mean when we claim affinity with an...

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In 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock travelled by Greyhound bus across the US from Detroit to Los Angeles. Seventeen years later, now in her 50s, she...

'Hough's conversational prose reads like the voice of a blues singer, taking breaks between songs to narrate her heartbreak in verse, cajoling her audience to laugh to keep from crying'...

Speaking together in Cuba in 1991, Mandela and Castro discuss the unique relationship and example of the struggles of the South African and Cuban peoples.

The world of arts and literature has not escaped the problem of AIDS. Not only has the disease made itself felt in the lives (and deaths) of artists and their...

First published in 1989. This is a collection of essays, excerpts of Korean classical literature including areas of romance, and selected work of Park Jiwon. Samsolgi is a collection of...

Sue Wilson, young and Aboriginal, escapes her 'too-large, too-poor family in a too-small' north Queensland town for Logan City's frontier sprawl. Entering 'the mythic world of Work' she discovers that...

Collecting together 30 pieces written about Muhammad Ali, the boxer's story is told in this book by an array of authors, athletes and social commentators. In addition to pieces by...

Old men and comets have been revered for the same reasons, said Swift - their long beards and their pretensions to foretell the future. And, in the case of old...

As the one work that has held moral and religious sway over the Judeo-Christian tradition for thousands of years, the Bible's power is unsurpassed in world literature. For women, its...

This fascinating anthology is a dive into the personal letters of some of the brightest literary minds in history. This collection is a look into the personal lives of some...

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