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The vice of reading
Edith Wharton offers a scathing attack on “mechanical” readers who are having a disastrous impact on the world of letters.
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Face to face
In this extraordinary 1959 interview, Carl Gustav Jung speaks with disarming lucidity about death, God, dreams, and the psyche’s hidden depths.
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Fancies versus fads
Fancies versus Fads is a brilliant introduction to one of the most distinctive voices of twentieth-century literature.
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Two hours
Two Hours is an exceptional novel. Witty, perceptive, and profoundly humane, this is the work of a writer at the height of her powers.
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In defense of the bullfight
In In Defense of the Bullfight, Francis Wolff makes a provocative argument against the view that bullfighting is the ultimate cruel sport.
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Helen's exile
Written in the aftermath of the Second World War, Albert Camus’s essay is a searching inquiry into the origins of the hubris and fanaticism that laid waste to twentieth-century Europe.
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Orgasm
Orgasm offers readers an unforgettable mental experience as Saatchi debunks some of the modern world’s most fondly held delusions.
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The lottery in babylon
Jorge Luis Borges’s short story is a characteristically brilliant achievement – a haunting mediation on the nature of chance, paranoia and divinity.
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Individualism and conformism in the united states
In Individualism and Conformism in the United States, Sartre probes the paradox at the heart of American identity: a culture that claims to exalt the self even as it channels that self into mass movements, uniform mores, and ideological frameworks.
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Book of water
Book of Water is a collection of short stories about desire, fear, life, care, and ecological anxiety, all narrated through the physical and metaphysical presence of water.
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Etymologies
A collection of ritual texts, parables, and performances from one of the most singular voices in contemporary theatre.
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Paris spleen
Paris Spleen is one of the first modern books—formally experimental, morally ambivalent, and relentlessly urban.
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Jacob's room
Virginia Woolf’s third novel is an unconventional literary portrait of its title character—an awkward but strangely fascinating young man coming of age in the years leading up to the First World War.
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The stroller of paris
A masterwork of poetic urban observation, The Stroller of Paris is Léon-Paul Fargue’s luminous love letter to the city he wandered, savored, and immortalized in prose.
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White fang
White Fang is Jack London's savage and sublime masterpiece of survival, adaptation, and transformation.
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Essay on the art of crawling
Baron d’Holbach’s 1776 Essay on the Art of Crawling is a delicious satire on the sycophancy and self-abasement rife in the courts of Europe.
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Pharos and pharillon
Pharos and Pharillon is a brilliant work of travel writing by one of the last century’s great observers of human affairs.
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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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A vision for europe 2020
An international all-star cast of thinkers, artists, and policy makers joins forces for a transparent, united, democratic Europe.
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The stories we bring back
In this wide-ranging and characteristically fearless exchange, Margaret Atwood sits down in Athens with poet and philosopher Haris Vlavianos to reflect on myth, politics, mortality, and the creative imagination.
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Art international
This definitive anthology gathers the magazine’s most original and influential writing—along with artists’ manifestoes, correspondence, and rare critical texts unseen for decades.
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A load of shit
John Berger’s essay is an extended reflection on shit as an emblem of what it means to be human.
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Treason of the intellectuals
This book offers an incisive account of interwar Europe and a warning against the lure of tribal loyalties and antipathies.
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The naturing cosmos
The Naturing Cosmos inaugurates a major new dialogue between philosophy, design theory, and ecology.
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Contempt is a dangerous way to lead a country
Bishop Budde’s address stands as a calm but resonant call for compassion in an increasingly vicious and punitive political culture.
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The signal-man
In this unnerving masterpiece of atmosphere and compression, Charles Dickens turns from social realism to metaphysical dread, crafting a story that prefigures both Freud’s uncanny and the mechanized anxieties of the modern age.
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Love and other stories
These beautifully translated works demonstrate why Chekhov’s short fiction has achieved universal acclaim.
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The usefulness of crime
In this incendiary fragment, Karl Marx turns bourgeois morality on its head.
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Confessions
A highly distinctive artistic collaboration and a haunting meditation on religion, violence, and physicality.
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Age of anxiety
A brilliant sociological account of how identity and difference have been incorporated into the deepest substratum of capital, culminating in our times’ greatest woe: the extreme fetishization of the self.
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The history of western philosophy in 100 haiku
A whirlwind tour of two and a half millennia—told in 100 razor-sharp haiku.
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Bacon/giacometti
A dialogue between Francis Bacon and Alberto Giacometti written in the form of a play.
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On being ill
Virginia Woolf's reflections on sickness, fiction, and the chilling indifference of the natural world.
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Never go to the post office alone
Written by veteran journalist Stelios Kouloglou, Never Go to the Post Office Alone is a riveting fusion of fact and fiction, drawn from the author’s own time on the ground in Moscow.
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On talkativeness
Plutarch’s essay takes on an unusual philosophical problem: people who talk too much.
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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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Wild things
Wild Things is a book about loss and about the radical clarity that comes when everything falls away.
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