Stay, Illusion!
The Hamlet Doctrine
Written by Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: June 25, 2013
Price: $13.99
The figure of Hamlet haunts our culture like the ghost haunts Shakespeare’s melancholy Dane. Arguably, no literary work is more familiar to us. Everyone knows at least six words from Hamlet, and most people know many more. Yet the play—Shakespeare’s longest—is more than “passing strange,” and it becomes even more complex...
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Travels with Herodotus
Written by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2009
Price: $11.99
From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales.
In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to...
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Book Lust
Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
Written by Nancy Pearl
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $16.95
What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterateurs with "What If All (name the city) Read the Same Book," has devised reading lists that...
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The Purloined Clinic
Selected Writings
Written by Janet Malcolm
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: January 23, 2013
Price: $12.99
The Purloined Clinic is a retrospective of essays, reviews, and reports that reflect the range and depth of Janet Malcolm's engagement with psychology, criticism, art, and literature.
She examines aspects of "that absurdist collaboration," the psychoanalytic dialogue, from which come "small, stray sell recognitions that no other human relationship yields, brought forward...
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Reflections
Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings
Written by Walter Benjamin
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: March 12, 1986
Price: $16.95
A companion volume to
Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin's writings,
Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with Bertolt Brecht, and provides...
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Create Dangerously
The Immigrant Artist at Work
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $14.95
A New York Times Notable Book
A Miami Herald Best Book of the YearIn this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile.
Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who...
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Music for Chameleons
Written by Truman Capote
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 29, 1994
Price: $15.00
In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders them with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction. Here we encounter an exquisitely preserved Creole aristocrat sipping absinthe in her Martinique salon; an enigmatic killer who sends his victims announcements of their forthcoming demise...
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Home and Exile
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2001
Price: $12.00
More personally revealing than anything Achebe has written,
Home and Exile-the great Nigerian novelist's first book in more than ten years-is a major statement on the importance of stories as real sources of power, especially for those whose stories have traditionally been told by outsiders.
In three elegant essays, Achebe seeks to...
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