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Eternity by the stars
At once lucid and vertiginous, scientific and hallucinatory, Blanqui’s text stands as one of the strangest cosmological speculations of the nineteenth century—and one of its most haunting.
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Negative capability
First published in 1939, Walter Jackson Bate’s seminal study of John Keats’s “negative capability” remains the definitive account of one of the central ideas of Romantic poetics.
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Art is absolute truth
Drawn from the Brancusi archive, these notes, aphorisms, reflections, literary writings, and autobiographical fragments recover the artist’s thought before it hardened into quotation.
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The boxer
In The Boxer, Gabriele Tinti returns to the ancient bronze known as the Boxer at Rest, a figure seated, battered, unvanquished, and draws from it a sequence of poems as spare and unrelenting as the object itself.
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If destruction be our lot
Written in the shadow of mob violence, this early speech is a chilling meditation on how republics decay: not by invasion, but by contempt for institutions, by complecancy, by the rise of reckless ambition, by the people themselves.
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Why socialism?
Albert Einstein argues that competition distorts democracy, corrodes education, and leaves human life precarious and small. Against it, he proposes something unfashionable: a society organized for cooperation rather than profit.
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Appointment in samarra
Appointment in Samarra is a novel about pressure and about how little it takes for a life built on appearances to come apart.
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What's in a name
Claude Lévi-Strauss shows that the way we name animals reveals a hidden structure of thought.
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The maltese falcon
The Maltese Falcon strips the detective story to its core: not the solving of a crime, but the negotiation of a world where nothing is binding and everything has a price.
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Decadent, stricken, dying
In this electrifying text, Western civilisation is stripped of its alibis and exposed as the foundation of modern brutality. What shocks is not the violence itself, but the clarity: fascism was not an aberration, but a return.
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The yellow wallpaper
In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s classic, the domestic interior becomes a site of quiet horror, where care turns to control and reason gives way to obsession. Short, precise, and impossible to forget, it's a story that gets under the skin.
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Beyond big tech
Evgeny Morozov shows how we’ve reduced every problem to competition, forgetting how to build institutions that serve the public. Data, AI, infrastructure: all left to the market by default. The result is not inevitability, but failure of will.
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What we owe one another
Simone Weil argues that justice does not begin with claims, but with what we owe to the vulnerable core in every human being. Against entitlement and abstraction, she offers something rarer: attention, restraint, and moral seriousness.
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From the 20th to the 21st century
Unsentimental, rigorous, and newly urgent, From the 20th to the 21st Century demands to be read not as a document of its time, but as a work that clarifies ours—and one that will shape how it is understood.
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Vile bodies
Vile Bodies is comedy at speed, but its subject is exhaustion: a generation living as if permanence were optional, and discovering that it is not.
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Love
Clarice Lispector captures the instant when the ordinary breaks open and the self no longer feels secure. What emerges is not drama but revelation: a world at once more alive and more unbearable.
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Sanctuary
Faulkner's novel, Sanctuary exposes a system that continues to function even as it ceases to protect.
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The marriage of heaven and hell / hal foster
William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is placed under pressure by Hal Foster's annotations, which puncture the text’s prophetic authority with dry, surgical wit.
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Collected writings
This collection brings together three interrelated volumes by Michael Fried, one of the most influential and distinguished scholars currently at work in the humanities
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I killed and i bled
A published account of the trenches and their aftermath from French writer Blaise Cendrars.
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Laughter
In this classic 1900 essay, philosopher Henri Bergson anatomises the comic impulse with surgical clarity and lyrical wit.
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Homes of hades
At once philosophical and visceral, Homes of Hades is Kleopatra Haritou’s haunting dialogue between the living and the dead—between Athens above and Athens below.
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The invisible collection
When Zweig’s anonymous narrator sets off to the provinces in search of a lucrative bargain, he finds himself caught up in the slow unfolding of a family tragedy.
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The discourse of voluntary servitude
La Boétie maps how power metastasizes through favors, flattery, and fear.
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The world of bond and maigret
Read the authors discussing their approaches to the craft of writing, the origins of their characters’ names, and the critical reception of their novels.
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Luminous lives
Thomas Schlesser’s biography, which draws upon the considerable body of written material that Anna-Eva Bergman left behind, at long last enables us to understand this extraordinary artist in all the complexity of her character and the dramatic circumstances of her life.
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On the margin
These essays are a testimony to the polymathic reach of Aldous Huxley’s intellect, as well as to the relish with which he entered into some of his more surprising enthusiasms.
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The divine mimesis
In The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini reimagines Dante’s descent into Hell not as allegory but as lived, historical reality—urban, political, and deeply personal.
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Live theory
Live Theory: The Stanley Aronowitz Reader brings together in thirteen seminal essays Aronowitz’s theoretical contributions.
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Unpacking my library
Benjamin offers a personal meditation on his career as a book collector and on the strange relations that spring up between objects and their owners.
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Humour as i see it
Stephen Leacock writes a masterful account of how humour works—and of how it very often doesn’t.
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A modest proposal
Jonathan Swift’s 1729 pamphlet is at once a denunciation of the mistreatment of Ireland’s poor and a daringly inventive comic rhapsody.
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The case against travel
A vigorous assault on the idea that there is something transformative or ennobling about recreational travel.
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The glory of the rails
In this brilliant essay the historian Tony Judt describes the singular contribution made by railways to the development of our shared way of life.
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The fly
An outstanding literary portrayal of the shadow cast by the First World War.
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Resistance to christianity
Resistance to Christianity is a revisionary account of the forms of thought and belief that have been rejected by orthodox Christianity over the course of the centuries.
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Story of a communist
Story of a Communist—the first volume of Negri’s three-part autobiography—gives a fascinating account of his intellectual development and of the price he has paid for living out his ideals.
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Apocolocyntosis
Apocolocyntosis depicts a posthumous trial in which the recently deceased Emperor Claudius makes the case for his elevation to the company of the gods.
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Writings on art and poetical theory
In Writings on Art and Poetical Theory we see Pessoa exploring, under the guise of various heteronyms, general theories on poetics, the poetry produced by his other heteronyms, and the uses and abuses of criticism.
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The american dream is at the expense of the american negro
James Baldwin's speech delivered in 1965 at the Cambridge Union Society.
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Prose edda
The Prose Edda is part cosmic origin story, part poetic handbook, and part mythic encyclopedia.
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Tom holland's beowulf
In this unique work, acclaimed historian, Tom Holland takes up Beowulf with his pen at the ready.
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I must have a great inner life
This book will prove an indispensable companion to a major figure in the cultural life of the last century.
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Desire and fate
Brilliant and unsparing essays on the blind spots and maladies of contemporary culture.
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Soundings
Dora Malech’s latest anthology of poems written in the last decade and appearing for the first time in a single volume.
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Victoria
Victoria is an incisive study of the coercive power of economic and social forces that is also renowned for its innovative and psychologically probing narrative techniques.
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Songs of an eastern humanist
This volume collects all of Edward Said's never-before-published poems, offering insight into the personality of the author.
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Ruins
Ruins gathers writings in the form of verses, fragments, and short essays that Gabriele Tinti has dedicated to the “living sculpture of the actor”.
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In praise of cosmetics
This wicked, brilliant fragment defends makeup not as deception but as devotion: a ritual rebellion against decay, chance, and animal life.
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The right to be lazy
Paul Lafargue spells out with unrivaled clarity the damage inflicted by the myth that endless work is morally virtuous.
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Literature and politics
A Collection of Robert Musil's essays, addresses, aphorisms, and unpublished notes on current events. Introduced and contextualised by Genese Grill and Klaus Amann.
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No politics but class politics
This book argues against the establishment of a demographically representative social elite, and for economic justice for everyone.
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Phrases
Phrases presents the spoken language from six films by Jean-Luc Godard. Gathered here, in written form, they are words without images: not exactly screenplays, not exactly poetry, but something else entirely.
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Tradition and the individual talent
T. S. Eliot’s advocacy of “impersonality” as a literary ideal in Tradition and the Individual Talent had an immeasurable impact on Modernist literature and continues to resonate today.
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The modersohn-becker/rilke correspondence
In English for the first time, the letters that Modersohn-Becker and Rilke sent to one another.
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The darkroom
The Darkroom contains Marguerite Duras Film scripts and writings about film.
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Our distance became water
Our Distance Became Water is the debut novel of Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, author of the acclaimed short story collection Book of Water.
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The theme of the three caskets
Freud demonstrates through literary, mythical, and folktale examples the extraordinary way that wishes manifest themselves in people’s dreams.
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Do not resuscitate
Maurice Saatchi writes an unsparing depiction of a celestial trial in which his application to pass through the Gates of Heaven is heard before a jury featuring luminaries like Marilyn Monroe, Pablo Picasso, Chairman Mao, and Margaret Thatcher.
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The rover
Joseph Conrad’s last completed novel is a masterpiece of narrative tension and psychological insight.
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The communist of montmartre
Michael Kleeberg's historical farce about the Paris communist Party.
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Glossary of cognitive activism
Artist/writer Warren Neidich’s thought-provoking and timely Glossary of Cognitive Activism updates the epistemological foundations of resistance.
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Socialisme ou barbarie
An anthology from the radical group that reoriented critical revolutionary theory by affirming that social change emerges through ordinary people’s everyday lives and struggles.
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River of becoming
A lavishly illustrated volume is the authoritative biography of a consummate self-portraitist and a riveting depiction of a paradoxical personality.
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The country of the blind
In this short story H.G. Wells conducts a thought experiment. What would become of a community if its members were somehow deprived of sight?
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Tyranny of style
A defence of the composer’s duty to the text: not to entertain, not to soothe, but to translate meaning with precision and depth.
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North and south
First published in 1854, North and South is Elizabeth Gaskell’s boldest and most ambitious novel: a work of fierce social commentary and subtle emotional power.
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Ng6461
NG6461 is an unforgettable account of what has gone wrong in the art world, and of what can be done to change it.
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Rameau's nephew
A fictional conversation written by Denis Diderot, one of the key figures of the French Enlightenment.
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The glow of the dim
Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s meditation on traditional Japanese aesthetics finds unexpected beauty in shadows, silence, and cold.
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Marginalia on casanova
Miklós Szentkuthy uses Casanova’s memoirs as a springboard for something far stranger: a swirling meditation on eros, memory, disguise, vanity, and the metaphysics of seduction.
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Whose body?
Judith Jarvis Thomson’s “A Defense of Abortion” is a cornerstone of modern moral philosophy, widely taught, fiercely debated, and endlessly cited.
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I declare a permanent state of happiness
This book places artworks by Kenneth Goldsmith side-by-side with the original text of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus.
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A passion in the desert
A French soldier escapes captivity and stumbles into something stranger than war: solitude, survival, and a wild intimacy with a panther in the sands of Egypt.
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The spirit of monarchy
William Hazlitt's essay on the ludicrousness of monarchy shows him at his best.
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Death of a prince
In this dreamlike final reckoning, Don Fabrizio dies as he lived: proud, weary, and beyond the world of ordinary men.
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The greek music drama
This Edition of Nietzsche's work serves to redress the comparative neglect that this seminal text—presented here in an elegant bilingual format—has suffered in Nietzsche studies.
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Justice in palestine
Justice in Palestine is an essential work by one of the twentieth century’s most powerful and authoritative voices.
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Secrets of beauty
As well as throwing new light on the author’s own creative achievement, Secrets of Beauty is a vital contribution to aesthetic theory.
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Hungry ghosts
A unique combination of poetry and photography, Hungry Ghosts is a thrilling evocation of the disturbing visions and the yearnings for a world beyond that have fed both ancient and modern understandings of the afterlife.
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The 1854 oration
The 1854 speech traditionally attributed to Chief Seattle of the Duwamish Tribe is a vital document in the history of the Indigenous peoples of North America.
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