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

In In Defense of the Bullfight, Francis Wolff makes a provocative argument against the view that ...

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

Phrases presents the spoken language from six films by Jean-Luc Godard. Gathered here, in written...

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

Phrases presents the spoken language from six films by Jean-Luc Godard. Gathered here, in written...

Michael Kleeberg's historical farce about the Paris communist Party.

Judith Jarvis Thomson's 'A Defense of Abortion' is a cornerstone of modern moral philosophy, wide...

This wicked, brilliant fragment defends makeup not as deception but as devotion: a ritual rebelli...

Miklós Szentkuthy uses Casanova's memoirs as a springboard for something far stranger: a swirling...

Miklós Szentkuthy uses Casanova's memoirs as a springboard for something far stranger: a swirling...

A novel of astonishing modernity--merciless in its view of ambition, cynical in its rendering of ...

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

La Boétie maps how power metastasizes through favors, flattery, and fear.

In this dreamlike final reckoning, Don Fabrizio dies as he lived: proud, weary, and beyond the wo...

In this autobiographical essay, Danish poet Søren Ulrik Thomsen returns to the place--and the yea...

A defence of the composer's duty to the text: not to entertain, not to soothe, but to translate m...

A French soldier escapes captivity and stumbles into something stranger than war: solitude, survi...

Paris Spleen is one of the first modern books--formally experimental, morally ambivalent, and rel...

A masterwork of poetic urban observation, The Stroller of Paris is Léon-Paul Fargue's luminous lo...

Paris Spleen is one of the first modern books--formally experimental, morally ambivalent, and rel...

First published in 1854, North and South is Elizabeth Gaskell's boldest and most ambitious novel:...

A masterwork of poetic urban observation, The Stroller of Paris is Léon-Paul Fargue's luminous lo...

Wild Things is a book about loss and about the radical clarity that comes when everything falls away

White Fang is Jack London's savage and sublime masterpiece of survival, adaptation, and transform...

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's luminous meditation on traditional Japanese aesthetics finds unexpected bea...

Ranging from ancient philosophy to pandemic politics, Agamben's profound and disquieting essay di...

In this incendiary fragment, Karl Marx turns bourgeois morality on its head. Crime, he argues, is...

In a world of forbidden magic, two wolves fight for a lost soul. All Clarisse wants is to be free...

Almost 40% of the world's population play video games. Whether on smartphones, consoles or PCs, t...

Quasi il 40% della popolazione mondiale gioca ai videogiochi. Che si tratti di smartphone, consol...

Près de 40% de la population mondiale joue aux jeux vidéo. Que ce soit sur smartphone, sur consol...

In a world where shadows whisper promises of power and every flame casts a darker truth, A Shadow...

Dans l'espace liminal entre la flamme et l'ombre, chaque choix porte le poids de mille conséquenc...

Forgotten by the gods, Adelaide forges her power in the sweet judgment of the sword - her only we...

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

This book offers an incisive account of interwar Europe and a warning against the lure of tribal ...

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

This book argues against the establishment of a demographically representative social elite, and ...

Baron d¿Holbach¿s 1776 Essay on the Art of Crawling is a delicious satire on the sycophancy and s...

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

In this short story H.G. Wells conducts a thought experiment. What would become of a community if...

Benjamin offers a personal meditation on his career as a book collector and on the strange relati...

Read the authors discussing their approaches to the craft of writing, the origins of their charac...

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

Edith Wharton offers a scathing attack on ¿mechanical¿ readers who are having a disastrous impact...

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

In this intriguing literary fragment an English visitor to southern Germany suffers a terrifying ...