First collection of the KOV's essays to be published in English. Wide-ranging - many subjects are northern, but not all - with his characteristic concentration on the navel. What would the C... read more
Looks at the lives of Ryle, Austin, Anscombe and Murdoch and how they transformed moral philosophy in C20th Britain. No rose-tinted specs here, just the plainest tortoise-shell frames...
Kristeva's most recent book, translated from the French, is a (not surprisingly) complex engagement with the work of Dostoyevsky. Enhanced by a thoughtful foreword by Rowan Williams.
A literary inquiry into the peculiar intimacy of infections, the slippery relationship between ourselves and foreign bodies. Who knew that something called 'the poetics of infection' could e... read more
OL gets under the skin of a dozen glamorous but stifled figures: Susan Sontag, Christopher Isherwood, Nina Simone... With a sympathetic eye, she explores the conditions needed to cultivate... read more