The entanglement of Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth et al in the racial politics of their age: a fascinating and original perspective in which feeling and scholarship are deftly balanced.
A thoughtful, articulate exploration of the ancient right of asylum and hospitality, of the modern idea of refuge that keeps others out, and of the stories we tell that can bridge these pole... read more
By bus across the US, following the same route (Detroit to Los Angeles) that she made in her youth. Memoir and reportage of a changed world and environmental damage.
From seed to maturity to dessication, the life-cycle of the teasel, closely observed - a process that has bewitched the author, an artist and naturalist. A pamphlet from a tiny press.
A microscopic book - no larger than of a packet of cigarettes. Collects her essays on mass media, popular culture and art into 200 or so tiny pages. Pieces on Francis Bacon, Annie Ernaux, Ki... read more
A provocative, personal series of essays looking at the encroachment of technology - AI, Twitter, Google et al - on our autonomy, independence and privacy. But it's SO convenient...
A collection of essays about our most basic need - water - with contributions by Rebecca Solnit, Ocean Vuong, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Lucy Jones, Vandana Shiva, Elif Shafak and others.
Thoughts on different kinds of love in contemporary society: why are we so fixated on it and why do so many feel it to be out of reach? Drawing on personal experience, cultural touchstones, ... read more
Recently republished, Barley Patch was Murnane's first work of fiction in fourteen years. A paradoxical, generous book about reading, writing and not writing.
A dictionary like no other - exuberant yet precise, Lexicon Of Affinities is both a portrayal of Vitale's remarkable 20th century and an insight into the idiosyncrasies of human experience.
Astute literary and social criticism, exploring the evolution of African American literature during the cold war by addressing their unique positionality - alienated from both the left and r... read more
Anyone who read Christopher de Hamel's last book, or Alexandra Lapierre's novel Belle Greene, will know that the letters from Pierpont Morgan's mixed-race librarian/buyer to Berenson will be... read more
Following visits to Dakar, Columbia and Palestine, the American novelist and critic explores in a series of essays how we are shaped by the stories we tell ourselves (or one another).
An elegant anthology that tries to encompass India's plurality, from the C6th BC to the C18th, with excerpts of works in Hindi, Kannada, Pali, Panjabi, Persian, Sanskrit, Telugu, and Urdu. P... read more
Rosa Luxemburg, Charlotte Salomon and Marilyn Monroe are Rose's first focus in this far-sighted and tightly-reasoned exploration of women's lives. Feminism at its most elegant and intelligen... read more
An immense, learned and witty sweep of literature by the editorial director of New York Review Books and the founder of the NYRB Classics series. Frank is terrific company through the centur... read more
The first issue of a new, massive (almost twice the dimensions of a standard magazine) bi-annual publication. Each issue revolves around a central text - this time by AK Blakemore - with oth... read more