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, we say to ourselves after...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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226834245)
The incomparable Mary Beard is back, and she’s talking all things classics. Why the ongoing fascination with the ancient world? This witty, approachable book asks why—for better or (sometimes) worse—antiquity continues to exert such a...Loe edasi...
An immersive journey through trees in Japan by celebrated writer Aya Koda now available in English for the first time Trees are not just living things, but feeling beings, like us. Better keep a watchful eye over them ...Loe edasi...
How the modern world has understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter today The study of ancient Greek history has been central to the western conception of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of History traces the shifting patte...Loe edasi...
A memoir of Dublin in the 1980s and 1990s, and an intimate defence of radical thinking about literature and life, by Brian Dillon, one of the true treasures of contemporary literature (Mark OConnell). ...Loe edasi...
Sari: Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820377230)
This is a love-hate story about personal and political relationships in the United States, told through the intimate stories of both the rejectors and the rejected: lovers, families, neighbors, and a nation and its people. Although we’re taught no...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226847719)
A lively compendium of musical practices and compositions that upend notions of creativity and expressivity while diversifying our sense of the musical canon. An artist draws two octaves of pitches randomly from a hat, just enough to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226847696)
A lively compendium of musical practices and compositions that upend notions of creativity and expressivity while diversifying our sense of the musical canon. An artist draws two octaves of pitches randomly from a hat, just enough to...Loe edasi...
Bringing together essays from neurodivergent and disabled writers, and writers with chronic illnesses, this collection explores the impact of these experiences and the struggle against such biases within the field of creative writing. Whils...Loe edasi...
You are asking me where I live and its making me think all these things about space, where I start and end in space and where space starts and ends in me and when, in space, I am a body and when Im a book, in space. So begins Renee Gladmans Theor...Loe edasi...
Blending biography, memoir and art criticism, Fancy Work: Unpicking Past Lives the latest work from the author of Ill Feelings explores the ever-shifting tensions between family, labour and gender through the history of embroidery, or fancy work....Loe edasi...
Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Hass explores poetry for what it is: a relationship between people and the land.In Third Commonness, U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass follows a literary river through time and topography, from Zen Bu...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, we say to ourselves after...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: New York Review of Books, ISBN-13: 9798896230571)
A stunning, unclassifiable work by one of the 20th centurys greatest thinkers and writers, this book is an inspiring amalgam of letters, poetry, and profound musings on everything from Caravaggio to the nature of time itself. Those who read or lis...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Metropolitan Museum of Art, ISBN-13: 9781588398093)
This collection of essays provides dynamic new perspectives on 100 works of art that span centuries of human creativity around the globe Across ages and cultures, artists have found inspiration in the human urge for connection. This...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9798895270813)
This volume addresses the unique relationship between the American dream and the manifold ways in which food and food-related topics support and expand upon elements that constitute the American dream. The contributors discuss instances in which Ame...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of New Mexico Press, ISBN-13: 9780826369703)
A debut essay collection probing the multifaceted range of experiences, both common and unusual, that define human interaction with our wild and human-made worlds. In this luminous debut collection, wilderness guide Hannah Hindley explore...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...
A globe-spanning essay collection on the human condition from the author James McBride calls “one of the most creative and important nonfiction writers in our era”Our hyper-informed digital era of climate catastrophe, historic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: ZE Books, ISBN-13: 9798988670124)
Tastykakes, Soul Songs and Shining Stars is a rich and passionate record of a life-long obsession with soul music and Rhythm & Blues from music industry stalwart Joe McEwen, legendary A&R man for acts including Elvis Costello, Paul Simon, K.D. Lang,...Loe edasi...
Describing encounters and missed encounters with the wildlife that surrounds the Teifi, Love Letters on the River is a lyrical, honest and tender tribute to the many creatures - both in the garden and beyond the garden wall - that bring joy to Carly...Loe edasi...
