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No politics but class politics
This book argues against the establishment of a demographically representative social elite, and for economic justice for everyone.
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I must have a great inner life
This book will prove an indispensable companion to a major figure in the cultural life of the last century.
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The glory of the rails
In this brilliant essay the historian Tony Judt describes the singular contribution made by railways to the development of our shared way of life.
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The modersohn-becker/rilke correspondence
In English for the first time, the letters that Modersohn-Becker and Rilke sent to one another.
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The full story
A collaboration between writer Chips Hardy and illustrator Oscar Grillo, The Full Story offers a genre-defying sequence of one-page narratives—each a glimpse into a life, a death, a joke, or an epiphany.
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Review of mein kampf by adolf hitler
Orwell read Hitler—and believed him. In this blistering review from 1940, he lays out what most of polite society refused to face.
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White fang
White Fang is Jack London's savage and sublime masterpiece of survival, adaptation, and transformation.
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Essay on the art of crawling
Baron d’Holbach’s 1776 Essay on the Art of Crawling is a delicious satire on the sycophancy and self-abasement rife in the courts of Europe.
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A modest proposal
Jonathan Swift’s 1729 pamphlet is at once a denunciation of the mistreatment of Ireland’s poor and a daringly inventive comic rhapsody.
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A passion in the desert
A French soldier escapes captivity and stumbles into something stranger than war: solitude, survival, and a wild intimacy with a panther in the sands of Egypt.
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Two hours
Two Hours is an exceptional novel. Witty, perceptive, and profoundly humane, this is the work of a writer at the height of her powers.
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Humour as i see it
Stephen Leacock writes a masterful account of how humour works—and of how it very often doesn’t.
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Store kongensgade 23
In this autobiographical essay, Danish poet Søren Ulrik Thomsen returns to the place—and the year—that shaped his life.
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Treason of the intellectuals
This book offers an incisive account of interwar Europe and a warning against the lure of tribal loyalties and antipathies.
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The greek music drama
This Edition of Nietzsche's work serves to redress the comparative neglect that this seminal text—presented here in an elegant bilingual format—has suffered in Nietzsche studies.
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In defense of the bullfight
In In Defense of the Bullfight, Francis Wolff makes a provocative argument against the view that bullfighting is the ultimate cruel sport.
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The spirit of monarchy
William Hazlitt's essay on the ludicrousness of monarchy shows him at his best.
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Story of a communist
STORY OF A COMMUNIST—the first volume of Negri’s three-part autobiography—gives a riveting account of his intellectual development and of the price he paid for living out his ideals.
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Paris spleen
Paris Spleen is one of the first modern books—formally experimental, morally ambivalent, and relentlessly urban.
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Dracula's guest
In this intriguing literary fragment an English visitor to southern Germany suffers a terrifying ordeal.
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Pharos and pharillon
Pharos and Pharillon is a brilliant work of travel writing by one of the last century’s great observers of human affairs.
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The darkroom
The Darkroom contains Marguerite Duras Film scripts and writings about film.
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On depiction
In this collection of essays that arikha wrote between 1965 and 1994, he expounds on art, technique, seeing, and the state of culture in his day.
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Wild things
Wild Things is a book about loss and about the radical clarity that comes when everything falls away.
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The vice of reading
Edith Wharton offers a scathing attack on “mechanical” readers who are having a disastrous impact on the world of letters.
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The sixth desert
The Sixth Desert is a bold, propulsive literary epic—part family saga, part Hollywood tragedy, part American reckoning—unfolding in six self-contained but interconnected acts.
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The world of bond and maigret
Read the authors discussing their approaches to the craft of writing, the origins of their characters’ names, and the critical reception of their novels.
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I declare a permanent state of happiness
This book places artworks by Kenneth Goldsmith side-by-side with the original text of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus.
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Our distance became water
Our Distance Became Water is the debut novel of Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, author of the acclaimed short story collection Book of Water.
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The communist of montmartre
Michael Kleeberg's historical farce about the Paris communist Party.
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Socialisme ou barbarie
An anthology from the radical group that reoriented critical revolutionary theory by affirming that social change emerges through ordinary people’s everyday lives and struggles.
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Songs of an eastern humanist
This volume collects all of Edward Said's never-before-published poems, offering insight into the personality of the author.
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Contempt is a dangerous way to lead a country
Bishop Budde’s address stands as a calm but resonant call for compassion in an increasingly vicious and punitive political culture.
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Only too much is enough
In this volume, Michael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon's long-time friend and biographer, has gathered Bacon’s most memorable aphorisms.
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Phrases
Phrases presents the spoken language from six films by Jean-Luc Godard. Gathered here, in written form, they are words without images: not exactly screenplays, not exactly poetry, but something else entirely.
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The discourse of voluntary servitude
La Boétie maps how power metastasizes through favors, flattery, and fear.
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Unpacking my library
Benjamin offers a personal meditation on his career as a book collector and on the strange relations that spring up between objects and their owners.
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The 1854 oration
The 1854 speech traditionally attributed to Chief Seattle of the Duwamish Tribe is a vital document in the history of the Indigenous peoples of North America.
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Bacon/giacometti
A dialogue between Francis Bacon and Alberto Giacometti written in the form of a play.
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North and south
First published in 1854, North and South is Elizabeth Gaskell’s boldest and most ambitious novel: a work of fierce social commentary and subtle emotional power.
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Secrets of beauty
As well as throwing new light on the author’s own creative achievement, Secrets of Beauty is a vital contribution to aesthetic theory.
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The invisible collection
When Zweig’s anonymous narrator sets off to the provinces in search of a lucrative bargain, he finds himself caught up in the slow unfolding of a family tragedy.
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Prose edda
The Prose Edda is part cosmic origin story, part poetic handbook, and part mythic encyclopedia.
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A load of shit
John Berger’s essay is an extended reflection on shit as an emblem of what it means to be human.
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On the margin
These essays are a testimony to the polymathic reach of Aldous Huxley’s intellect, as well as to the relish with which he entered into some of his more surprising enthusiasms.
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Never go to the post office alone
Written by veteran journalist Stelios Kouloglou, Never Go to the Post Office Alone is a riveting fusion of fact and fiction, drawn from the author’s own time on the ground in Moscow.
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I want to die, i hate my life
I Want to Die, I Hate My Life is at once a searching philosophical engagement with tragedy and a bracing argument against the widespread tendency to reduce literary texts to mere illustrations of philosophical ideas.
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The theme of the three caskets
Freud demonstrates through literary, mythical, and folktale examples the extraordinary way that wishes manifest themselves in people’s dreams.
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Tom holland's beowulf
In this unique work, acclaimed historian, Tom Holland takes up Beowulf with his pen at the ready.
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