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Astra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. Astra Magazine connects readers and writers from New York to Mexico City, Lagos to Berlin,...

Broken Consort is a chronicle of close attention (to books, films, plays, paintings and life itself) by Will Eaves, author of Murmur (winner of the 2019 Wellcome Prize)Book InformationISBN 9781909585355Author Will EavesFormat PaperbackPage Count...

In Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything from country music to George Bush, his favourite comedians to his mother's midnight mania, and bittersweet tributes to a dead best friend and a dead marriage. Resonating with his singular...

Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in 21st century daily life and in the media. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform and stay alive. Our addressability is...

The Poetics of Wrongness is a collection of essay/talks that the poet Rachel Zucker, expanded from lectures presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2016.Devastating in their revelations, yet hopeful in their endurance, these are lectures of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373911Author Edwin FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Antiquity's most influential mythological handbook.The Library provides in three books a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. Written in clear and unaffected style, the compendium faithfully follows the Greek literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353334079Author Gowhar GeelaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

Languages of Truth offers Salman Rushdie's most piercingly analytical views yet on the evolution of literature and culture even as he takes us deep into his own exuberant and fearless imaginationSalman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the...

The most original book of Julien Gracq's later output is about Nantes. It begins with a quotation from Beaudelaire that is repeated and distorted. Nantes, still haunted by Andr (c) Breton, Jacques Vache and Rimbaud behind them is reconstructed from a...

An expansive collection of texts providing insight into the inner life, creativity, and practice of the innovative American artist Anne Truitt Spanning more than fifty years, this comprehensive volume collects the letters, journal entries, interviews,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156035224Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 4527g

With a sprightly dose of insightful inspiration, a sprinkling of practical advice, and a bounty of exuberant stories by great writers, O's Little Book of Happiness features some of the best work ever to have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine. Inside...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618125005Author Tatyana TolstayaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 262g

A journalist and folklorist explores the truths that underlie the stories we imagine-and reveals the magic in the everyday. "I've always felt that the term fairy tale doesn't quite capture the essence of these stories," writes Emily Urquhart...

Paul Gottfried's critical engagement with political correctness is well known. The essays in Revisions and Dissents focus on a range of topics in European intellectual and political history, social theory, and the history of modern political movements...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060585693Author Ray D BradburyFormat PaperbackImprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307275226Author Edward MendelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 228gDimensions(mm)...

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

This international bestseller is an encyclopedic A-Z masterpiece-the perfect introduction to the very core of Western humanism. Clive James rescues, or occasionally destroys, the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists,...

Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayWinner of the 2022 Southern Book PrizeAn Indie Next Selection for September 2021A Book Marks Best Reviewed Essay Collection of 2021A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2021A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739774776Author Onyeka NwelueFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Abibiman Publishing UKPublisher Abibiman Publishing UK

The enduring power of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry rests with his claim that all we need for a better life on earth is already given to us, in the here and now. In twenty-six engaging and accessible essays, Ulrich Baer's The Rilke Alphabet examines this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061233326Author Annie DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227g

P.G. Wodehouse saw his first article published when still at school, and went on to become the leading humour writer of the twentieth century. He created characters famous across the English-speaking world, such as Rupert Psmith, Stanley Ukridge, Uncle...

This is a book about identity, self-determination and self-making; about energy; about that vibrant surge that forces us forward in life, to seek the new and the possible, come whatever. In a series of honest, often humorous and brutally frank essays,...

You'll find the answer in The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books: the ultimate guide to the world's greatest books. As writers such as Norman Mailer, Annie Proulx, Stephen King, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, Margaret Drabble, Michael Chabon...

An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the...

A must-read collection featuring the best in sports journalism Glenn Stout, founding editor of the Best American Sports Writing, has curated an essential anthology showcasing incredible feats and diverse perspectives across the world of sports. Selected...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809519071Author Brian StablefordFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 410g

'An uplifting work: complex, precise and bracing' Susie Boyt, Financial Times'A profound book about the intrication of literature and life, about the modest, miraculous ways art helps us to live' Garth GreenwellIn twenty-nine intimate, brilliant and...

Acclaimed poet and critic Maureen N. McLane offers an experimental work of criticism ranging across Romantic and contemporary poetry. In My Poetics, Maureen N. McLane writes as a poet, critic, theorist, and scholar—but above all as an impassioned reader...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912710461Author Gemma June HowellFormat PaperbackImprint Culture Matters Co-operative LtdPublisher Culture Matters Co-operative Ltd

A landmark reissue of a great teacher's finest work.Lionel Trilling was, during his lifetime, generally acknowledged to be one of the finest essayists in the English language, the heir of Hazlitt and the peer of Orwell. Since his death in 1974, his work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780307275769Author Joan AcocellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Random House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501155925Author Andrew SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593297612Author Zadie SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 102gDimensions(mm) 180mm * 127mm *...

What motivated the 16th century explorers? The question is a vexed one the world over. To this day, a troubled folkloric status hangs about the better-known names. Many of the Tudor explorers set sail from the South West peninsula. Morpurgo, with his own...

A searing and fearless anthology of essays exploring the profound impact of money on women's lives, edited by prominent feminist and writer Rebecca Walker.Women Talk Money is a groundbreaking collection that lifts the veil on what women talk about when...

A searing and fearless anthology of essays exploring the profound impact of money on women's lives, edited by prominent feminist and writer Rebecca Walker.Women Talk Money is a groundbreaking collection that lifts the veil on what women talk about when...