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Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
A philosopher makes the case for thinking of works of art as tools for investigating ourselves In Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, the philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva …
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of …
Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty
A daring and provocative book-length essay on why we both romanticize and vilify mothers A simple argument guides this book: motherhood is the place in our culture where we lodge, …
Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron, and Other Tangled Lives
"Young Romantics" tells the story of the interlinked lives of the young English Romantic poets from an entirely fresh perspective celebrating their extreme youth and outsize …
Alice in Bed: A Play in Eight Scenes
Dramatizes the plight of Alice James, who was confined to a bed by illness and whose genius was confined by nineteenth century conventions and expectations
Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s
An authoritative history of the energy crises of the 1970s and the world they wrought In 1973, the Arab OPEC cartel banned the export of oil to the United States, sending prices …
Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse
A riveting, beautiful novel in verse by Australia's greatest contemporary poet, winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize. I never learned the old top ropes, I was always in steam. Less …
My 1980s & Other Essays
Wayne Koestenbaum returns with a zesty and hyper-literate collection of personal and critical essays on the 1980s, including essays on major cultural figures such as Andy Warhol …
Killing the Black Dog: A Memoir of Depression
In 1988, shortly after moving from Sydney back to his birthplace in the rural New South Wales hamlet of Bunyah, Les Murray was struck with depression. In the months that followed, …
Time of the Hero
A powerful social satire which outraged the authorities of the author's native Peru, where 1000 copies were publicly burned.
Hard Laughter
Anne Lamott's poignant first novel Hard Laughter, reissued in an attractive paperback edition."A moving and strangely joyful book, a kind of celebration, and it's written with an …
Without End: New and Selected Poems
I love to swim in the sea, which keepstalking to itselfin the monotone of a vagabondwho no longer recalls exactly how long he's been on the road. Swimming is like prayer: palms …