
Origins of a ‘pre-internet blog’: The story of Witold Gombrowicz’s seminal and controversial ‘Diary’
The controversial Diary of the eminent polish author Witold Gombrowicz, has now been published in English after years of being out of print….
The controversial Diary of the eminent polish author Witold Gombrowicz, has now been published in English after years of being out of print….
More than 12 million German-speaking civilians in Europe were driven from their homes in the wake of WWII,…
From Jewish merchants to Bangladeshi curry houses, ancient docks to the 2012 Olympics, East London has always played…
Out now in paperback, Leila Ahmed’s A Quiet Revolution investigates the Muslim veil’s recent return. In this exclusive extract…
Originally published in 2009 Iain McGilchrist’s The Master and his Emissary explores the differences between the brain’s right and…
In Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown (out now in paperback) iterary scholar and music critic David Yaffe offers an…
Norman Manea is an acclaimed literary figure, whose works evoke comparisons to such giants as Kafka and Musil….
The name John Lukacs is known to history students the world over (he has written more than thirty…
In The New Universe and the Human Future (out now in paperback) a cultural philosopher (Nancy Abrams) and an astrophysicist (Joel…
In his recent book Realeconomik the internationally respected economist Grigory Yavlinsky makes a powerful case that without a commitment to…
In Hitler’s Berlin: Abused City, Thomas Friedrich explores how the German capital captivated Hitler’s imagination and how he sought…
Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life (out now in paperback) is an intimate, penetrating study of the great Russian…
With unsurpassed knowledge of Latin American history, John Lynch’s New Worlds: A Religious History of Latin America sets out to…
Published last year to widespread acclaim, Gulag Voices by Pulitzer Prize-winner Anne Applebaum is a unique collection of writings from…
The Black Envelope is a novel by Jewish Romanian novelist Norman Manea, and has recently been published in…