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A worldwide exploration of the history, purpose, and inescapable influence of the Iliad and the Odyssey that will inspire readers to think anew about Homer ...
An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed, from one of the world's foremost ...
An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker ...
A book about how language shapes us, from the Nobel and Booker-prizewinning author and his Spanish translator,
This is a book about languages, what languages ...
What is a revolution? What are the sounds of the commons, the crickets, the carpark, the quails and the creek? Who funds culture wars, and ...
In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Toibin looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the ...
Albert Camus's lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South America in the 1940s, available again in a new translation ...
The origins and influence of Jim, Mark Twain's beloved yet polarizing literary figure
Mark Twain's Jim, introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885 ...
Jorge Luis Borges (1899--1986) is one of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century. His short stories, poems, essays, and translations explore Argentine ...
Portent, symbol, metaphor: from the Bunyip to the Slenderman, from Count Dracula to the (far more sinister) emotional vampire, monsters of all forms have offered ...
'Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.' Measure for Measure, act 3, scene 1
Shakespeare's plays and poems remain as beloved in the twenty-first ...