The Spirit of Controversy

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) is among the most brilliant critics and essayists to have ever written in the English language. Combative and insightful, he was close to two generations of romantic poets. His early friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge andWilliam...

Empire Windrush

Onyekachi Wambu

In June 1948, the SS Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, carrying with it the hopes and dreams of hundreds of young men and women from the Caribbean.Their arrival was to have far-reaching effects on Britain, signalling not only the beginning of mass migration to the UK,...

Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen

Christopher Ricks

James Fitzjames Stephen (1829-1894) is still highly valued as a judge, as the historian of the criminal law of England, and as the author of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, a forthright disagreement with John Stuart Mill. Stephen's weekly journalism established him as a...

L'esegesi in figura

Fabio Scirea

La ri-lettura delle Scritture ebraiche costituisce un elemento fondante del Cristianesimo, impegnato sin dai primordi nella reinterpretazione del prima alla luce del poi, mantenendo la lettera del testo ma ribaltandone il significato alla luce di una nuova funzione. Le...

Inciting Joy

Ross Gay

Inciting Joy

Ross Gay

From New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay comes a "brilliant" intimate and electrifying collection of essays about the joy that comes from connection (Ada Limón, U.S. poet laureate). In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prizewinning poet...

Too Much of Life

Margaret Jull Costa , Clarice Lispector , Robin Patterson

A TLS Book of the Year This exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest twentieth-century writers meditating on the moments that make up a life'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of being alive?'Between 1967...

Walter Pater's European Imagination

Lene Østermark-Johansen

Walter Pater's European Imagination addresses Pater's literary cosmopolitanism as the first in-depth study of his fiction in dialogue with European literature. Pater's short pieces of fiction, the so-called 'imaginary portraits', trace the development of the European...

Walter Pater's European Imagination

Lene Østermark-Johansen

Walter Pater's European Imagination addresses Pater's literary cosmopolitanism as the first in-depth study of his fiction in dialogue with European literature. Pater's short pieces of fiction, the so-called 'imaginary portraits', trace the development of the European...

A Woman's Battles and Transformations

Tash Aw , Édouard Louis

Édouard Louis is one of the most important literary voices of his generation' GuardianOne day,Édouard Louis finds a photograph of his mother from twenty years ago: a happy young woman, full of hopes and dreams. But growing up,Édouard only knew his mother's sadness -...

Tell Me the Truth About Love

Susanna Abse

'Brilliant and touching' Maggie O'Farrell'A must-read for everyone wanting to understand more about what makes us fall in - and out - of love' Philippa Perry'A charming, useful, kind book about the pains and hopes of relationships' Alain de BottonDrawing on over 30...

Why We Read

Malcolm Gladwell , David Wengrow

Why read non-fiction? Is it just to find things out? Or is it for pleasure, challenge, adventure, meaning? Here, in seventy new pieces, some of the most original writers and thinkers of our time give their answers.From Hilton Als on reading as writing's dearest...

The Amis Collection

Kingsley Amis

'Amis has no faults. He is clever, witty, ironical' GuardianWhat advice can one give a green young author? What purpose do literary prizes serve? Where on earth can a man get a decent bite to eat? This entertaining collection is vintage Kingsley Amis, revealing him at...

Revisiting Slave Narratives I

Judith Misrahi-Barak

One cannot fail to be impressed by the number of works of fiction relating to slavery and the slave trade, writing back to the original slave narratives of the 18th and 19th centuries. If the African-American authors of the 1960s and 1970s are now well-known, they find...

Letter to a Stranger

Colleen Kinder

“Beautiful. The human condition is on full display in these glimpses of our essential connectedness. Perfect for our times.”  —Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance Sixty-five extraordinary writers grapple with this mystery: How can an ephemeral...

The Production and Dissemination of Knowledge in Scotland

Lesley Graham

Education and learning have traditionally been areas in which the national specificity has been promoted and asserted in Scotland and apparently with good reason since for several centuries the Scottish population could claim to be the most thoroughly educated in the...

Preston King

Sam Cherribi

This volume celebrates the remarkable career of Dr. Preston King, an African American political philosopher with an international reputation. King’s first degree was from Fisk University (1956). He moved directly to the London School of Economics (LSE), completing his...

Misfits

Michaela Coel

'Razor-sharp and as funny as I May Destroy You ... a gifted writer' Sunday Times | 'A perfect truth-teller of our time' ELLE | 'Leaps off the page' Observer | 'Comic and devastating' New York Times | 'Your self-help bible of 2021' Sunday Times | Profound, hilarious,...

Souvenir

Michael Bracewell

'The best evocation I've read of London in the '80s' Neil Tennant'I loved Souvenir . . . it rescued some things for me - a certain aesthetic, a philosophical engagement with time and poignant beauty and lived history that I have found myself looking for, and not...

The Spirit of Controversy

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) is among the most brilliant critics and essayists to have ever written in the English language. Combative and insightful, he was close to two generations of romantic poets. His early friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge andWilliam...