Literary Collections

The Following Game is about passion and obsession. It's about cricket, family and poetry, but most of all it's about a father following his son's career in the public eye and the close relationship they share. Jonathan Smith is the father of Ed Smith, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668015544Author Annie LiontasFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 154g

The poems of Ulrike Almut Sandig are at once simple and fantastic. This new collection finds her on her way to imaginary territories. Thick of It charts a journey through two hemispheres to "the center of the world" and navigates a...

With the publication of her first book of criticism, Against Interpretation, in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultural and political transformation. "What is important now," she wrote, "is to recover our senses . . . ...

An issue devoted to the dubious rewards and strange effects of fame which successfully avoids mentioning Andy Warhol.This edition centres around celebrity, both good and bad. Contributions include: the search for Hitler's doctor; an Irish republican...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935625001Author Edward L BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Pace University PressPublisher Pace University PressWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908853714Author S. J. BradleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press

Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given...

Twenty-six-year-old American Ernest Pope arrived in Munich as a Reuters correspondent in in 1936. From then until he left in the summer of 1940 he saw first-hand the wild excesses of the Nazis. He wrote mainly for British newspapers-notably the Daily...

Buddhism, love, Henry James, and the tango are just a few of the topics Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina's master writer, and extraordinary conversationalist, discusses in the first volume of the remarkable new series, Conversations. The eighty-four-year-old...

Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of the modern discipline of sociology. Ranging over fundamental questions of the relationship of self and society, his influential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629631059Author Marge PiercyFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 108g

Hugo von Hofmannsthal is one of the modern era's most important writers, but his fame as Richard Strauss's pioneering collaborator on such operas as Der Rosenkavalier and Die Frau ohne Schatten has obscured his other remarkable writings: his precocious...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393346367Author Clive JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm)...

'I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive' -- Christopher Hitchens, IntroductionChristopher Hitchens is widely recognized as having been one of the liveliest and most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374251468Author Roland BarthesFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

A collection of Roger Mayne's intimate street and family photography. This beautiful book reassesses the work of acclaimed British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 2014), famous for his arresting street scenes capturing Britain's post-war youth. It...

Subject of a full-length segment on Morning Edition when it first appeared in hardcover, Literature from the "Axis of Evil" quickly went to the top of the Amazon bestseller list. Its publication was celebrated by authors including Azar Nafisi and Alice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553378276Author David James DuncanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Greek Literature and the Ideal contends that the development of Greek literature was motivated by the need to endow political geography with a sense of purposeful structure. Alexander Kirichenko argues that Greek literature was a crucial factor in the...

In Melville's Wisdom: Religion, Skepticism, Literature in Nineteenth-Century America, Damien B. Schlarb explores the manner in which Herman Melville responds to the spiritual crisis of modernity by using the language of the biblical Old Testament wisdom...

It has long been thought that imperial portrait types were officially commissioned to commemorate specific historical moments and that they were made available to both the mint and the marble workshops in Rome, assuming a close correspondence between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565842809Author Lois KeithFormat PaperbackPage Count 223Imprint New PressPublisher New PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 19mm

This book examines the history of the German Army which, for the best part of two centuries, influenced the course of events in Continental Europe. It was an army that studied the conduct of war at the highest levels, planning for the destruction of its...

"What a strange and unexpected treasure chest this is, filled with all manner of quirky revelations, all about the mundane sublime and the ineffable extraordinary. Most extraordinary of all, perhaps, through, is the haunting perfection, sentence by...

What elevates a mere word to the status of keyword? What does it mean to translate a keyword and map its meaning against other languages?Like every major culture, Chinese has its set of "keywords": pivotal terms of political, ethical, literary and...

Lia Purpura's essays are full of joy in the act of intense observation; they're also deliciously subversive and alert to the ways language gets locked and loaded by culture. These elegant, conversational excursions refuse to let a reader slide over...

Los Angeles Times Bestseller "Mary Cappello['s] inventive, associative taxonomy of discomfort . . . [is] revelatory indeed." MARK DOTY, author of Dog Years: A Memoir and Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems "A wonderful, multi-layered piece of...

In a series of playful and startling prose meditations, celebrated writer Lorna Crozier brings her rapt attention to the small matter of household objects: everything from doorknobs, washing machines, rakes, and zippers to the kitchen sink. Operating as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604864908Author Michael MoorcockFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

A hybrid collection of texts written and performed on the road, from Mexico City to San Francisco, from Central America to central California, illustrated throughout with photos and artwork. Rants, manifestos, newspaper cutups, street theater,...

The sermons of Joni Tevis' youth filled her with dread, a sense "that an even worse story--one you hadn't read yet--could likewise come true." In this revelatory collection, she reckons with her childhood fears by exploring the uniquely American...

One of the great national epics of India that blends poetry and adventure to tell the origin story of the hero Rama Rama, the crown prince of the City of Ayodhya, is a model son and warrior. He is sent by his father the king to rescue a sage from...

The king despairs of his idle sons, so he hires a learned brahmin who promises to make their lessons in statecraft unmissable. The lessons are disguised as short stories, featuring mainly animal protagonists. Many of these narratives have traveled across...

Through the keen eyes and curious mind of a young girl, Ying-tzu, we are given a glimpse into the adult world of Peking in the 1920s.The five sequential stories in this collection can be read as either stand-alone pieces, or as a novel, due to the...

This collection contains some of Bly's seminal essays on poets and poetry including: Looking for Dragon Smoke, The Eight Stages of Translation, Six Disciplines that Intensify Poetry, and essays on Hirshfield, Stevens, Whitman, Wright, Rilke, Machado,...

A lyric cover of Kathy Acker's career and a study of the development of narrative in her books deftly tracing Acker's interactions with a diverse palette of avant-gardisms, world letters, cultures, and theory. Martin follows Acker through New York's...

"Coffee House Press, a major nonprofit publisher, recently launched a Kickstarter for a book examining the Internet's cat video fetish. The book, if the Kickstarter campaign reaches its $25,000 goal, will be titled Cat is Art Spelled Wrong, and examine...

During his many years writing for publications such as LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, Slake, Surfer's Journal and more, Joe Donnelly has driven to Texas with Wes Anderson, shot pool with Sean Penn, surfed with Chris Malloy, sparred (verbally) with...