A nihilistic wit reminiscent of Samuel Beckett.?Independent on Sunday

Cronopios and Famas

Schools have failed our individual needs, supporting false and misleading notions of 'progress' a...

Brenot argues that for 300 years, masturbation has been condemned in the occidental world. There ...

Alfred Hitchcock & the Making of Psycho

Marat Sade

A languid but often hilarious and rich-as-cream Irish comedy about three elderly women and a gree...

These four one-act plays deal with the African-American experience of today. Their central elemen...

Saul's Book

The face of a clown is the face of innocence, and innocence goes to the wall in German society af...

'The medical establishment has become a major threat to health.' This is the opening statement an...

In this dark fairy tale, Latife Tekin has written a grim parable of survival and dignity.

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Billiards at Half Past Nine

A Swedish literary masterpiece Considered one of the greatest love stories of all time Available ...

The Investigation is a dramatic re-construction of the Frankfurt War Crimes trials, based on the ...

An American born in Paris at the turn of the last century, Julian Green takes the reader on an im...

A Homemade World

Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness

The author of Consuming Passions and Deadline at Dawn presents a classic text--used worldwide--re...

Sleuth has all the ingredients of a top-class thriller, which it undoubtedly is - a plot whose tw...

I Lost It at the Movies is vintage Kael on such classics of post-war cinema as On the Waterfront,...

Count D'Orgel

All Fires the Fire

Three Plays

A modern musical genius speaks out in a unique collection of interviews, lectures and statements.

Tools for Conviviality was published only two years after Deschooling Society. In this work, Illi...

'A nihilistic wit reminiscent of Samuel Beckett.'-The Independent

A fascinating look at how pigments were created, used, and revered in the Middle Ages.

Immersed in her adopted South''s aristocratic antebellum society, English-born Elizabeth Escridge...

Mirrors

A Sense of Measure

Chinese Takeout

Texts

Rainsplitter in the Zodiac Garden

The Charm

The Serpent's Egg

Gender

When the Norwegian composer Christian Sinding introduced his young friend Frederick Delius (1862-...

Jake Horsley seems to arrive from out of nowhere, yet here he is--an almost fully developed and o...

For more than thirty years, poet, writer and artist Jean Cocteau maintained a lasting and passion...

The search for a song from an island on the 'wrong side of the wind.'

Introducing new artist, Verity Richards, whose work is already being compared to Eric Carle.

From aab gosht to zeera, this is a wordlist of Hindi (and some regional) terms for food and dishe...

Culinary material provides a remarkable conspectus of practice among court circles in Restoration...

Catherine Dickens, under the pseudonym of Lady Maria Clutterbuck, wrote a little book called What...

A study of the development of cookery itself, and the British, in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Michael Raffael advocates a creative, messy approach to cooking: don't follow recipes too slavish...