'Tawada's strange, exquisite book toys with ideas of language, identity and what it means to own someone else's story or one's own' The New Yorker on Tawada's Memoirs of a Polar BearAre you formed by your mother tongue?
Brought together, attention and drift help immerse ourselves in our surroundings and make us appreciate the contingent and pulsating relations of living.
L'Historien et les images s'organise en une suite de quinze essais éclairant le statut et l'exploitation des images dans la quête historienne depuis Pétrarque et les premiers « antiquaires » et numismates de la Renaissance jusqu'à notre siècle.
Roger Zottis latest collection of essays, Best Served Cold, is mostly a true book with some stretchers, as Mark Twains Huck Finn says about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
A nostalgic and poignant coming-of-agestory told through one young womans relationships with the mother figures inher lifeRelationshipsbetween mothers and daughters can often be complicated and fraught.
A brand new volume of previously unpublished writings from the archives reflecting Jack Kerouacs Buddhist thinkingFrom a young age Kerouac was a spiritual thinker and questioner, and he always considered himself a spiritual writer.
I am gonna write poems til I die and when I have gotten outta this body I am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground.
An authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people drew on to challenge the brutal, totalizing system of Jim Crow racismThis book brings together a wealth of readings on the metaphor of the ';New Negro,' charting how generations of thinkers debated its meaning and seized on its potency to stake out an astonishingly broad and sometimes contradictory range of ideological positions.
