From the International Man Booker Prize-winning author of Cant and Wont and The End of the Story - a crystalline collection of literary essays for fans of Susan Sontag and Joan Didion Among my most favourite writers. Read her now! A....Loe edasi...
Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language. Precise, concentrated, lyrical. No one writes like Lydia Davis, and everyone should read her Hanif Kureishi A writer as mighty as Kafka, as...Loe edasi...
A witty, heartfelt but intelligent celebration of what it means to have great friends. The Times Delightful. Guardian The overwhelming tone of the book is joy, along with an optimism about friendships enduring essence. Sunday Times ...Loe edasi...
The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay....Loe edasi...
A gorgeously giftable special hardback edition of The Odyssey, retold for young readers by Geraldine McCaughrean Bound in high-quality cloth with a dazzling new foil-stamped cover design, Puffins Clothbound Classics are a gift...Loe edasi...
Comedian and author of Birdie & Harlow thedailytay shares an honest and hilarious essay collection on parenting young children, navigating social anxiety, and being a millennial woman. Its just a busy season, w...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781836745563)
How had the world by 1914 become susceptible to a disastrous systemic breakdown? The one American historian who rose to this analytical challenge was Paul Schroeder. These historical insights have an obvious urgency today Nicholas Mulde...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198994756)
A Book of Greek Life: The Ancient World Through Epigram introduces interested general readers to the richness and weirdness of the ancient world through its own social media (little poems called epigrams, of which we have thousands)....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300282382)
Essays on imagining a better world in dark times, from one of our most esteemed scholars of fairy tales Fairy tales take us to a world where magic is commonplace, where wishing works, where the conflicts in our hearts are literalized...Loe edasi...
A fascinating collection of rarely seen journalism and other writings by Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series.Ian Fleming was best known for bringing to life the legendary character of James Bond, one of the most be...Loe edasi...
Sari: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399543132)
Essays and translations by modern-day scholars organised along the principles of the Arabic narrative tradition. Adab is not an English word, but it could become one. This collection, in honour of Julia Bray, experiments with juxtap...Loe edasi...
The first comprehensive overview of Werner Sollors’ ground-breaking work on culture and ethnicity. Born in Silesia, raised in the Frankfurt area and educated in Berlin, Werner Sollors has spent most of his career at Harvard University in t...Loe edasi...
David Hume reshaped, redirected, and re-energised the English essay. His sceptical, rational, self-questioning persona created what amounted to a new intellectual arena, in which it was possible to think afresh about the world and the self. When he f...Loe edasi...
David Hume reshaped, redirected, and re-energised the English essay. His sceptical, rational, self-questioning persona created what amounted to a new intellectual arena, in which it was possible to think afresh about the world and the self. When he f...Loe edasi...
**A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR** Quite simply, this book is a work of genius Matthew Parris, Spectator An essential study of post-war gay London life... one of the best anthologies I have ever read John Self, Obser...Loe edasi...
**A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR** Wonderful An anthology with an immense amount to tell us about its period, and our lives now ... unmissable Philip Hensher, Spectator The second in a major two-part antholo...Loe edasi...
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The renowned author returns with a timely book about his journeys to three sites of conflict - Dakar, South Carolina, and Palestine - exploring how the stories we tell, and the ones we dont, s...Loe edasi...
Dwight Macdonald, John Summers, John Summers, Andrew J. Bacevich
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226847993)
This collection features Dwight Macdonald’s prophetic essays on politics, art, and violence in twentieth-century America. What does extreme violence do to human values? Does the concept of collective guilt make sense in assessing respo...Loe edasi...
Dwight Macdonald, John Summers, John Summers, Andrew J. Bacevich
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226830971)
This collection features Dwight Macdonald’s prophetic essays on politics, art, and violence in twentieth-century America. What does extreme violence do to human values? Does the concept of collective guilt make sense in assessing respo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Alma Classics, ISBN-13: 9781847499387)
New annotated collection of George Orwells articles while he was writing for the British left-wing newspaper Tribune. Part of Alma George Orwell Collection....Loe edasi...
In Praise of Shadows belongs to that special order of slim, enormously powerful books that enchant the lay reader with an esoteric subject, leaving a lifelong imprint on the imagination. —Maria PopovaThese all-new translations...Loe edasi...
Two important books of criticism by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate now combined in a single volume with a new preface by the author...Loe edasi...
A multimedia narration inspired by the journey of an Ethiopian royal mantle to Berlin. The work of Maaza Mengiste draws from voices and stories that have been excluded, from gaps that seem inexplicable, from images, objects, and places...Loe edasi...
In Whiti Hereaka’s new fiction collection, a single comb becomes a universe of stories. Drawing inspiration from a seemingly simple comb, or heru, this new text by Whiti Heraka comes in nine sections, “a part for each tooth, and...Loe edasi...
From the International Man Booker Prize-winning author of Cant and Wont and The End of the Story - a crystalline collection of literary essays for fans of Susan Sontag and Joan Didion Among my most favourite writers. Read her now! A....Loe edasi...
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker * Kirkus Reviews “Earnest and engaging.” —The New Yorker A personal and analytical essay collection from culture critic Lawrence Burney that is a personal...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: OR Books, ISBN-13: 9781682194546)
What if the job hunt wasn’t just a means to an end, but a mirror held up to who we are—and who we’re becoming?Search Work is an anthology that gathers job seekers to reflect on the emotional states, rituals, and ar...Loe edasi...
Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language. Precise, concentrated, lyrical. No one writes like Lydia Davis, and everyone should read her Hanif Kureishi A writer as mighty as Kafka, as...Loe edasi...
A witty, heartfelt but intelligent celebration of what it means to have great friends. The Times Delightful. Guardian The overwhelming tone of the book is joy, along with an optimism about friendships enduring essence. Sunday Times ...Loe edasi...
The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay....Loe edasi...
A gorgeously giftable special hardback edition of The Odyssey, retold for young readers by Geraldine McCaughrean Bound in high-quality cloth with a dazzling new foil-stamped cover design, Puffins Clothbound Classics are a gift...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781837052219)
Anne Crawford allows the queens to speak for themselves through their own correspondence, with each letter set in context and a general introduction on the role of the queen in medieval and Tudor England....Loe edasi...
Ten candid essays by Black women writers that open up conversations long kept private, examining the personal and political forces that shape womens lives across Africa and the diaspora....Loe edasi...
This collection brings together three interrelated volumes by Michael Fried, one of the most influential and distinguished scholars currently at work in the humanities...Loe edasi...
