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Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg--are names that continue to reverberate as the Beats remain a vital source of inspiration to successive generations of readers and writers. Here THE PARIS REVIEW interviews key Beats and members of the offshoot Black Mountain School of experimental poets, to describe the writers' art and lives--creating a unique and fascinating record.

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It's about the second when the guard drops, that moment when the eyes blink and miss the incoming hammer blow. Beautiful Burnout premiered at the Pleasance Forth as part of the Edinburgh International Festival in August 2010 before touring the UK in a co-production between Frantic Assembly and the National Theatre of Scotland.

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A beautiful new edition of Edward Said's classic which argues that a beginning is different from (and preferable to) an origin, because a beginning can be chosen and an origin can only be acknowledged.

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Offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner and Britten to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays.

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This Modern Classics edition celebrates the play's fortieth anniversary, with a foreword by Antonia Fraser and an introduction by Michael Billington.

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This is a book of enthusiasms: an intelligent and witty map of contemporary British poetry and a radical, accessible guide to living British poets, grouped for the first time according to the kind of poetry they write.

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Whether walking an abandoned road or considering a friend's suicide, his poems remind us of our abdications, of our collapsed relationships with nature, with history, with ourselves.

There are, however, all the vestiges of connective tissue - memories and mementoes, sudden, miraculous leaps of beauty.

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Drawing on various sources, this book examines varieties of love, faith, hope and illusion, to suggest an unusual possibility: that when the search for what we expected to find - in the forest or in our own hearts - ends in failure, we can now begin the hard and disciplined quest for what is actually there.

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Negotiating the borders and hinterlands of Central and Eastern Europe - with occasional coracle trips or forays to Antarctica for a round of golf - the homesick flaneur surveys the surrounding devastation with the same mixture of fascination and alarm he feels when he discovers the sweat-mark on his T-shirt makes a perfect map of Ireland.

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Germany's most gifted literary critic on the critical discussion of Nobel Prize laureate Thomas Mann.

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Divided into three sections; Easy Books, Middle-Grade Readers and Young Adult, this book makes reading connections by theme, setting, voice and ideas and includes lists for horse lovers.

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Offers recommended reading for more than 120 destinations around the globe. With stops from Texas to Timbuktu, it connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling.

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Internationally bestselling author of The End of Your Life Book Club, Will Schwalbe's new book is another gem for book lovers. An exploration of how reading guides us, comforts us and helps us make sense of the world and our place in it, through books as diverse as The Girl on the Train, The Little Prince and Reading Lolita in Tehran.

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With her knowledge of both classic and contemporary cultures, Paglia sheds illuminating light on the raw power of a wailing pop lyric as easily as she does on the cryptic wit of a line of Emily Dickinson. High school & older.

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Is your enjoyment of Brian Friel's work hampered by a lack of Irish historical knowledge A Faber Critical Guide to Brian Friel's major work gives all this and more. It gives an introduction to the distinctive features of the playwright's work;

(Hardback, 1st ed. 2015)

What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the late eighteenth century onwards This book is a literary history of representations of Muslims in Britain from the late eighteenth century to the eve of Salman Rushdie's publication of The Satanic Verses (1988).

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From Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirda comes a collection of his most personal and engaging essays on the literary life-the perfect companion for any lover of books.

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