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A compilation of 35 years' worth of critical essays from one of the boldest and most articulate cultural theorists of our time.

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Originally written as a libretto for the Berlin State Opera, Elfriede Jelinek's rein GOLD reconstructs the events of Wagner's epic Ring cycle and extends them into the present day.

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Rainer Maria Rilke offers a compelling portrait of Parisian life, art and culture at the beginning of the 20th century

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Rock My Religion collects eighteen of Graham's essays from all periods of his work, beginning with his essays on minimalist artists such as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, continuing with his writings on punk rock and popular culture, and concluding with his more recent considerations of architecture, urban space, and power.

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Rome Stories explores the city's fateful impact through the writing of classical historians, a Renaissance sculptor, 18th-century tourists, American, British and French novelists and the authors of modern Rome, each testing and unravelling the city's ageless paradoxes.

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William Cobbett provides evocative descriptions of the 19th century southern English countryside, his encounters with labourers, and outbursts at the encroaching cities and sufferings of the poor. Ian Dyck places these accounts in the context of Cobbett's political and social beliefs.

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A landmark collection of essays on the Nobel laureate's conception of Latin America, past, present, and future

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In this novel he shares his experiences good and bad the highs and lows and the feelings of being a foreigner in new countries His hope is for future generations to have open hearts and minds Life is a journey

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Sixteen years' worth of incisive essays by the great poet and memoirist.

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A hilarious essay collection from Laci Mosley, host of the wildly popular, award-winning "Scam Goddess" podcast, in which she dives into the wildest scams she's encountered and examines how this work has enlightened her to the scams present in all areas of life

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When President Habyarimana's jet was shot down in April 1994, Rwanda erupted into a hundred-day orgy of killing - which left up to a million dead. The author travelled through the country as the genocide was continuing. This analysis aims to reveal the terrible truth behind the headlines.

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The first collected edition of over three decades of exquisite criticism - of art, television, film, and literature - by one of America's most beloved writers.

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A volume containing five of C S Lewis's best known inspirational and spiritual works.

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Contains a selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. This volume includes the best of Johnson's journalism, including essays from the periodicals 'The Adventurer' and 'The Idler'.

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Brings together the prose writings of the great early nineteenth-century essayist Charles Lamb, whose shrewd wit and convivial style have endeared him to generations of readers. This title discusses how his tragic life and sainted reputation, caring for his mentally ill sister Mary, belied the quality of his work.

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This volume of John Muir's selected writings chronicles the key turning points in his life and study of the American wilderness.

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The entire literary career of Gertrude Stein is represented in this selection poetry and prose.

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Minna Salami captures the mood of a disaffected generation, and forges the path for a radical Black feminist way of knowing for everyone.

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This volume contains Tristan Tzara's famous manifestos, which first appeared between 1916 and 1921 and became essential texts of the modern movement and models for Breton's Surrealist manifestos.

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This new edition of this seminal work, edited by Stephen Greenblatt and Peter G. Platt, features an adroitly modernized text, an essay in which Greenblatt discusses both the resemblances and real tensions between Montaigne's and Shakespeare's visions of the world, and Platt's introduction to the life and times of the extraordinary Florio.

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"In 2016, Lawrence Jackson accepted a new job in Baltimore, searched for schools for his sons, and bought a house. It would all be unremarkable but for the fact that he had grown up in West Baltimore and now found himself teaching at Johns Hopkins, whose vexed relationship to its neighborhood, to the city and its history, provides fodder for this captivating memoir in essays."--

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A dazzling follow-up to the novel Faces in the Crowd, this collection of literary peregrinations around the margins of metropolitan life demonstrates Valeria Luiselli's equal virtuosity as a writer of non-fiction.

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Shes a genius, I believe, because she lights up every subject she touches. Hilary Mantel

A Spectator Book of the Year

Goethe claimed to know what light was.