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Barley Patch

Gerald Murnane

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Lexicon of Affinities

Ida Vitale

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The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War ...

Jesse McCarthy

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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

Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Lett ...

Deborah Parker

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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).

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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A fascinating, eloquent study that looks not only at nocturnal animals and night terrors but also at those who work while the rest of us sleep.

Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark ...

Dan Richards

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It seems scarcely credible that these essays should have remained unpublished for so long.

Silent Catastrophes: Essays in Austrian Literature

W. G. Sebald

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The violation of nature as the corollary of war: a formidable classical scholar on the links between ecological degradation and Homer's work.

Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer’s “Iliad” in the Fi ...

Edith Hall

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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

Ten Indian Classics

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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

Women in Dark Times

Jacqueline Rose

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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 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

Footnote No.1

A. K. Blakemore

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A charming guide to writing and editing from the great le Guin.

Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of ...

Le Guin, Ursula K.
Le Guin, Ursula K.

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An essay of feminist prehistory that describes how baskets, nets and bags predated less domestic, more violent tools. With an introduction by Donna Haraway and abstract, spidery drawings by ... read more

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Le Guin, Ursula K.
Le Guin, Ursula K.

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Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays

Elisa Gabbert

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This Mouth is Mine

A. Gil, Yasnaya Elena
A. Gil, Yasnaya Elena

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The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper: A New Statesman and Spec ...

Roland Allen

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Blowing hot and cold: an intense look at the relationship between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, using previously unpublished letters and other sources to explore their closeness and their late... read more

Didion & Babitz

Lili Anolik

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A memoir from the beloved author of the Booker short-listed Treacle Walker, The Owl Service and other wonders.

Powsels and Thrums: A Tapesty of a Creative Life

Alan Garner

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Memoir and reportage by the outstanding foreign correspondent (who has covered conflict in Ukraine, Mali, Syria, Kosovo, Bosnia, Rwanda, Israel/Palestine), and an anthology of poems that spe... read more

I Brought the War with Me: Stories and Poems from the Front Line ...

Lindsey Hilsum

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One of ten clothbound editions that this excellent publisher has produced to celebrate their first decade. A run of one thousand copies, with signed and numbered book plates.

Essayism Trilogy

Brian Dillon

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One of Fitzcarraldo's most popular non-fiction titles: a longform essay on translation.

This Little Art

Kate Briggs

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You Have Not Yet Been Defeated

Alaa Abd El-Fattah

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Newly translated and annotated by the well known classical scholar.

Aesop’s Fables: A New Translation

Aesop

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From the intimate to the political, a practising psychoanalyst and professor of literary theory probes the difference between anger and aggression. Riveting reading.

All the Rage: Why Anger Drives the World

Josh Cohen

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This Swedish 'cult' book, first published in 1987, has a Borghesian lustre with its purported remnants of a lost work, spirals and labyrinths, the search for knowledge and the draw of the ir... read more

The Ways of Paradise

Peter Cornell

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Essays by the Haitian-American writer.

We’re Alone

Edwidge Danticat

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Fiction, philosophy and science are braided into an enquiry into the limits of human knowledge.

The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature ...

William Egginton

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A memoir of a love affair, a meditation on what is enrapturing and the desire to photograph it, and to write. With a few photographs by her former lover.

The Use of Photography

Annie Ernaux

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A new volume in this excellent series, useful for those interested in comparative mythology or the kaleidoscope of contemporary Korean culture.

The Korean Myths: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes and Legends ...

Heinz Insu Fenkl

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A fine and substantial survey of children's literature from Aesop on, by the Literary Editor of The Spectator.

The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading

Sam Leith

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Pamuk has kept a diary for over a decade, noting down thoughts, experiences, events, dialogues with his characters - and all illustrated with his own drawings.

Memories of Distant Mountains: Illustrated Notebooks ...

Orhan Pamuk

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Much of this is previously uncollected and unpublished.

The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

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In 1887 Oscar Wilde became editor of this magazine, dedicated to 'the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art, and modern life'. This selection comprises 30 article... read more

Selected Articles from The Woman’s World: Edited by Oscar Wilde ...

Eleanor Fitzsimons

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Reflections on fatherhood and the magical way that bringing up children alters our experience of time and erodes self-absorption. This work floats in a gentle ecstasy above the Fitzcarraldon... read more

Childish Literature

Alejandro Zambra

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Amusing linguistic snippets; would fit a small sporran.

Postings, 2

Jim McCue

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