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LITERATURE, REFERENCE & IDEAS

This second issue of this already very popular micro-mag includes new writing by Patricia Lockwood, Colm Tóibín, Lucy Ellmann, et al., with Ithell Colquhoun endpapers (the yellow cover rem... read more

The Little Review: No. 2

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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

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel ...

Edwin Frank

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The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

Etienne de la Boetie

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Palestine is Everywhere

Skye Arundhati Thomas

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The Site of Memory

Toni Morrison

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The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin

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The Writer as Migrant

Ha Jin

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When the Hogarth Press published Gorky's book of apercus in 1920, it could hardly have been to greater acclaim: according to Leonard Woolf, 'it makes one hear, see, feel Tolstoy... as if one... read more

Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev

Maxim Gorky

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Quietist rigour. Contains The Leaf and the Cloud, the collection What Do We Know and essays from Long Life.

Little Alleluias: Collected Poetry and Prose

Mary Oliver

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Charms against afflictions ancient and modern to give us courage to keep on with the business of living - by a wonderful author.

Remedies

Julia Blackburn

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The first complete translation of the existentialist's notebook offers as remarkable an insight into his psyche as sitting opposite him at Les Deux Magots...

The Complete Notebooks

Albert Camus

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Following her biographies of Kierkegaard and George Eliot, this is a series of six philosophical meditations on what it means to write about a person's life, whether the singularity of a lif... read more

Transcendence for Beginners

Clare Carlisle

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In this paean to the joys of reading, Douglas-Fairhurst recounts his life with books, sharing techniques to slow down, take note, and gain more from the experience. The Oxford don pairs rig... read more

Look Closer

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

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First collection of her essays. Her subjects range from literary investigations into shame to travel memoir and political writing.

Attention

Anne Enright

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Essays on vanishings and impermanence - of places, people, rituals, objects - by this fine novelist who won the International Booker a couple of years ago with Kairos.

Things That Disappear: Reflections and Memories

Jenny Erpenbeck

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Essays from five decades.

Putting Myself Together

Jamaica Kincaid

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Variations on the Czech-French writer's most visited themes: language, exile, translation and Soviet and Western attitudes to Czech culture. A slim re-issue.

89 Words followed by Prague, A Disappearing Poem

Milan Kundera

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A selection of some of Le Guin's pieces examining the social and political power of storytelling, and how it can help us navigate the world - stories as lifelines to truth, understanding and... read more

Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books

Ursula K. Le Guin

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A kind of commonplace book of quotes that Lumley has gathered, interspersed with her own thoughts. A feast of treasures, leavened by an acerbic wit.

My Book of Treasures: A collection of favourite writings ...

Joanna Lumley

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With an introduction by Yiyun Li, this selection brings together Montaigne's profound and inquisitive essays on life, death, and how to live... Also cannibals.

What Do I Know? Essential Essays

Michel De Montaigne

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Once upon a time, Lord Lundy was sent out to govern New South Wales. Now, says the great FM, he would be welcomed in our midst. A shrewd, anecdotal survey of emotion in history.

Soft: A Brief History of Sentimentality

Ferdinand Mount

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Posits Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift as spiritual siblings, twinned by their female ambition and the patriarchy's seemingly irrepressible urge to trivialise them. Rallying and celebratory.

The Slicks

Maggie Nelson

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The poet, translator and editor of Nemo's Almanac is astonishingly well-read; if books do furnish a room, this man's memory palace will be vast and labyrinthine... With a book habit that beg... read more

Books – A Manifesto: Or, How to Build a Library ...

Ian Patterson

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How Christianity has faded from the centre-stage of our culture, and how this loss undermines our democratic and civic values - equality, suffrage, social justice. A valiant argument for how... read more

The Eclipse of Christianity: and why it matters

Rupert Shortt

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Very present, tense cultural criticism: a discursive set of essays on what has recently captured the writer's attention - from Tár to Celia Paul, and the shifting political terrain on eithe... read more

Dead and Alive

Zadie Smith

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Story-telling as the route to personal freedom, to change one's trajectory and to live fully. Memoir and criticism in JW's elegant stride.

One Aladdin Two Lamps

Jeanette Winterson

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A mid-C19th collection of folktales, first published in 1841: this is its first new English translation in 150 years. Asbjornsen and Moe are the Brothers Grimm of Norway.

The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjornsen and Moe ...

Peter Christen Asbjornsen

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A wonderful - and serious - compendium by the British folklorist, scholar and author.

Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies: Banshees, Boggarts and Other Fol ...

Katharine Briggs

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Egeler begins his remarkable history of the faerie world in the meadows of Iceland, moving on to Germany, Ireland, Scotland, England, from its Norse and Celtic origins to the lamplit rooms o... read more

Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld ...

Matthias Egeler

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Pieces together the story of a young woman who fell ill in a tower on a hill, was confined there by her father for three years and eventually died. Using fiction, fairytale and memoir, Lena... read more

The Tower

Thea Lenarduzzi

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The latest in this excellent series on regional/national mythologies from Thames & Hudson.

The Maya Myths: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes and Ancestors ...

Mallory Matsumoto

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The catalogue for a new Hayward exhibition about the artist's interest in books, folklore, fairy tales and nursery rhymes.

Paula Rego: Visions of English Literature

Marco Livingstone

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Prof Cheshire has had a good rummage in the overlooked and extensive map library at UCL and has found cartographic treasure.

The Library of Lost Maps

James Cheshire

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A wonderfully discursive wander through Alice's Wonderland, Mr McGregor's neat rows, Elizabeth von Arnim's garden and Sei Shonagon's; with other conjurings by Alexandre Dumas, Katherine Mans... read more

Literary Gardens: The Imaginary Gardens of Writers and Poets ...

Sandra Lawrence

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The dark age of the soul: a close look at the terrifying erosion of the spirit by techno-capitalism and its machinations, and a reminder of what makes us human.

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

Paul Kingsnorth

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The cognitive scientist explores the centrality of 'common knowledge' to all human interactions, from awkward first dates to the toppling of regimes. Highly illuminating.

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…

Steven Pinker

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