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Bestselling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik embarks on a wildly creative inquiry into perhaps the oldest question: how do we learn a new skill? For decades, Adam Gopnik …

One of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman world, Plutarch (c. AD 46 -120) used an encyclopedic knowledge of the Roman Empire to produce a compelling and individual voice. …

Six decades of writing on literature and art by one of the most significant poets of our time_x000D_ _x000D_ Meditations gathers together in one volume for the first time an …

Magnus Hedlund har i decennier sysslat med att leka fram möjlig litteratur. Några av resultaten redovisas i denna volym liksom de spelregler som använts. Boken är också en …

Usein hyvään elämään ei muuta tarvita kuin 22 pelaajaa häikäisevänvihreällä pelikentällä ja jalkapallo.Kentänvaltaajissa joukko tunnettuja suomalaisia kirjoittajia käy läpi …

Hne Cixous is among the most influential and original literary critics and feminist thinkers of our time. This volume reproduces - for the first time, in any language - a …

An essay on work, desire, and fear of being replaced From the workplace to our personal relationships, anxieties about being replaced have come to dominate the late-capitalist …

In the many retellings of the Greek myths, the focus is generally on gods and heroes, but Natalie Haynes refocuses our gaze on the remarkable women at the centre of these ancient …

'A major achievement.' CLAUDIA RANKINE'Endlessly absorbing.' SINÉAD GLEESON 'A probing tour of capitalism and class.' MAGGIE NELSON'Exhilarating.' JENNY OFFILLA personal reckoning …

Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre programmes, visiting cards, draft …