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Bookshops
Love letter, travel-memoir, manifestoBookshops is a diverting cultural history of bookstores as spaces of creative energy and social change.
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Comparing the literatures
From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changesLiterary studies are being transformed today by the expansive and disruptive forces of globalization. More works than ever circulate worldwide in E...
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Disturbance
WINNER PRIX FEMINA AND PRIX DU ROMAN NEWS A 2019 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (Evening Standard・New Statesman ・Lit Hub) Paris, January 7, 2015. Two terrorists who claim allegiance to ISIS attack the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The event causes untold pain to the victims and their families, prompts...
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Extraction ecologies and the literature of the long exhaustion
How literature of the British imperial world contended with the social and environmental consequences of industrial miningThe 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller examines how literature of this era reckoned with ...
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Incarnation & metamorphosis
Essays on writers from Pablo Neruda to Sylvia Plath allow poet and essayist David Mason to explore the many changes we experience during a lifetime.
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Nostalgia
Through a subtle reading of the writings of Homer, Virgil, and Hannah Arendt, Barbara Cassin produces an in-depth analysis, at once scholarly and personal, of nostalgia. Where does nostalgia come from? Where do we truly feel at home? Cassin explores the notion that nostalgia has less to do with p...
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On belonging and not belonging
A look at how ideas of translation, migration, and displacement are embedded in the works of prominent artists, from Ovid to Tacita DeanOn Belonging and Not Belonging provides a sophisticated exploration of how themes of translation, migration, and displacement shape an astonishing range of artis...
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One equal music
“My favorite nonfiction book of the past 25 years... humane and angry and subtle and heartbreaking. I give it to people all the time.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times “Unrelenting, mesmerizing, and beautifully written… Transformative.” Foreword Reviews Published in hardcover as Disturbance (20...
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Preexisting conditions
A stunning philosophical and literary account of canonical plague talesMany are the losses suffered and lives lost during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2020, writers around the globe have penned essays and books that make sense of this medical and public health catastrophe. But few have add...
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Reading old books
A wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from Chaucer to the presentIn literary and cultural studies, "tradition" is a word everyone uses but few address critically. In Reading Old Books, Peter Mack offers a wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary...
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Resist everything except temptation
A book that penetrates the surface of the Oscar Wilde mythos to uncover the radical politics that propelled his art.
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Shakespeare's scholars
What Love’s Labor’s Lost, Hamlet, and The Tempest can teach us about discovery, growth, and changeShakespeare was a keen and discerning reader who was mocked by writers who, unlike him, had been to university—so it’s not surprising that his portrait of scholarly life is critical. As Sean Keilen s...
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The african novel of ideas
An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuriesThe African Novel of Ideas focuses on the role of the philosophical novel and the place of philosophy more broadly in the intellectual life of the African continent, from th...
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The aphorisms of franz kafka
A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature—featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka’s acclaimed biographerIn 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100 aphorisms, known as the Zürau aphorisms, after the Bohemian village in which he composed them. Among ...
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The closet
A literary and cultural history of the intimate space of the eighteenth-century closet—and how it fired the imaginations of Pepys, Sterne, Swift, and so many other writers Long before it was a hidden storage space or a metaphor for queer and trans shame, the closet was one of the most charged set...
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The good life and other fictions
How novels attune us to the broader role of fiction in our lives—our everyday yet remarkable ability to think and live “as if” Why do we weep at fictitious things? How do we act on the basis of them? How much of moral life revolves around make-believe? In The Good Life and Other Fictions, David D...
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The lives and extraordinary adventures of fifteen tramp writers from the golden age of vagabondage
Discover the stories of the famous and infamous tramps who criss-crossed the United States and England in this riveting history of tramp literature.
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Voices, places
Celebrated poet David Mason’s delightful collection of essays explores the connections between literary voice and place.
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