Spanning the centuries, from the seventeenth to the twentieth, and ranging across cultures, from England to Mexico, this collection gathers toget...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "Savagery appeased can only grow. Once you give in to it, it must escalate, like a fire searching for air." The man wh...
By the author of The Female Man, a provocative survey of the forces that work against women who dare to write. "She didn't write it. She wrote it...
Praised as a “revelatory” book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize–winning author and historian...
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures...
Discover the signature sartorial and literary style of fifty men and women of letters, including Maya Angelou; Truman Capote; Colette; Bret Easto...
"Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus's three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical...
In the speech he gave upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Albert Camus said that a writer "cannot serve today those who make h...
In this entertaining and always stimulating collection of seven essays, Kundera deftly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of...
A brilliant new contribution to Kundera's ongoing reflections on art and artists, written with unparalleled insight, authority, and range of refe...
The essays in this book present a complex theme at the heart of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, what in his last writing he called simply -a l...
They're among us, but they are not like us. They manipulate, lie, cheat, and steal. They are irresistibly charming and accomplished, appearing to...
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