Overview :A comprehensive examination of "ruins" of the modern era in contemporary art and cultural theory.The "ruins" of the modern era are the landm... Read More
Overview :A captivating meditation on the power of the sentence by the author of Essayism, a 2018 New Yorker book of the year. In Suppose a Sentence, ... Read More
Overview :Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly, In the Dark Room explores the question of how memory works emotionally ... Read More
Overview :The final publication by the internationally-acclaimed historian W. Michael Mathes (1936-2012), Indian Warfare in Baja California 1533-1857 ... Read More
Overview :A meditation on the power and pleasures of the image, from paintings to photographs to migraine auras, by one of Britain's finest literary m... Read More
Overview :A compelling ode to the essay form and the great essaysists themselves, from Montaigne to Woolf to Sontag. Essayism is a book about essays a... Read More
Overview :Brian Farrell (1929-2014) was one of the most respected broadcasters of his generation, as well as a distinguished academic. He covered curr... Read More
Overview :Charlotte Bront found in her illnesses, real and imagined, an escape from familial and social duties, and the perfect conditions for writin... Read More