Written when Austen was still an adolescent, Frederic and Elfrida is a witty and inventive parody...

Laughter

Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961) was already a comet in European letters when the First World War shat...

The Naturing Cosmos inaugurates a major new dialogue between philosophy, design theory, and ecology.

Beowulf endures as one of the most powerful expressions of myth, memory, and mortal reckoning--a ...

The Sixth Desert is a bold, propulsive literary epic--part family saga, part Hollywood tragedy, p...

When Margaret Hale is uprooted from the quiet gentility of southern England and thrust into the i...

In this wide-ranging and characteristically fearless exchange, Margaret Atwood sits down in Athen...

'Death is insignificantly divergent from life.' At once philosophical and visceral, Homes of Hade...

A collection of ritual texts, parables, and performances from one of the most singular voices in ...

For over three decades, Art International was the beating heart of the post-war art world--a maga...

A whirlwind tour of two and a half millennia--told in 100 razor-sharp haiku. In this audacious po...

In this volume, Agamben has collected all of his fierce, passionate, and deeply personal interven...

In an era when intellectual and artistic life is increasingly being distorted by political dogmat...

In this volume, Michael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon's long-time friend and biographer, has gathered B...

¿Serpents and reptiles reach the heights of mountains and rocks, while the most fiery of steeds c...

Stephen Leacock writes a masterful account of how humour works¿and of how it very often doesn¿t.

¿Over the mountains I come,¿ said Nunez, ¿out of the country beyond there¿where men can see. From...

¿I invent the most hopeless sounding plots; very often they are based on something I¿ve read in a...

In 1931 Lauro de Bosis flew over Rome in a small plane in order to scatter anti-Fascist pamphlets...

¿No vices are so hard to eradicate as those which are popularly regarded as virtues. Among these ...

¿More than any other technical design or social institution, the railway stands for modernity.¿ I...

'I felt a warm rasping at my throat, then came a consciousness of the awful truth, which chilled ...

'I found it terrible, yet at the same time touching, for in all the years of the war I had not se...

'A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome ...

This book places artworks by Kenneth Goldsmith side-by-side with the original text of Wittgenstei...

Long neglected by art historians, Anna-Eva Bergman (1909-87) was a painter of major importance wh...

A highly distinctive artistic collaboration and a haunting meditation on religion, violence, and ...

Brilliant and unsparing essays on the blind spots and maladies of contemporary culture.

An anthology from the radical group that reoriented critical revolutionary theory by affirming th...

'We knew very little with any certainty. One thing, though, was confirmed by everyone: that we we...

The 1854 speech traditionally attributed to Chief Seattle of the Duwamish Tribe is a vital docume...

'I know the same day made me free, which was the last day for him who made the proverb true-One m...

'It comes as a great shock to discover that the country which is your birthplace and to which you...

'What makes shit such a universal joke is that it's an unmistakable reminder of our duality, of o...

Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eig...

The philosopher Antonio Negri was one of the preeminent thinkers of our time: his writings on cla...

'Someone rang my husband. Your wife is not well, the person said. Your wife is not well.'When Cla...

A lavishly illustrated volume is the authoritative biography of a consummate self-portraitist and...

'Considering the emphasis in Said's critical work on space and place and the political importance...

We are at one of those turning points that divide history into a 'before' and an 'after.' The ong...

Hans Hartung was one of the twentieth century's greatest artists. His works mark him out as an ou...

Wilfully Blind is an unforgettable account of what has gone wrong in the art world, and of what c...

in English for the first time, the letters that Modersohn-Becker and Rilke sent to one another

Paul Lafargue spells out with unrivaled clarity the damage inflicted by the myth that endless wor...

A brilliant sociological account of how identity and difference have been incorporated into the d...

'Although people like to talk about their travels, few of us like to listen to them. Such talk re...

'The Greeks never said that the limit could not he overstepped. They said it existed and that who...