This entertaining anthology offers an array of writers past and present expressing their thoughts about dogs. The writers and poets collected within this anthology reflect on the... Læs mere
In this haunting memoir, Alison gives a luminous account of key moments in her life that brought her to be the writer she is: her early activism; her descent into alcoholism; her recovery; her discovery of the power of writing to give a shape and meaning to a life.
Junkspace, architect Rem Koolhaas's celebrated essay, updated and published alongside Running Room, architectural critic Hal Foster's response.
The Victorian artist and activist William Morris travelled to Iceland in search of an answer to the problem of how to live.
The Victorian artist and activist William Morris travelled to Iceland in search of an answer to the problem of how to live.
Osip Mandelstam's meditation on eight months spent in Armenia in 1930
In this lyrical essay, Gunn explores the ideas of home and belonging - and of her own deep connection to a place where every flower and gatepost seems embroidered with the memory of some story or another.
Cyclogeography lifts the lid on the hidden world of Cycle Couriers, the 'solitary creatures of the underworld', and the strange or illicit contents of... Læs mere
In this extraordinary memoir, neuroscientist Andrew Lees explains how William Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and troubled drug addict, played an unlikely part in his medical career.
These essays reveal different and lesser known aspects to Oscar Wilde Wilde has always had the power to capture the public imagination like no other author
Woolf responds passionately to those writers - past, present - who deal honestly with the reader, who express their own variations on the 'I am I' - the selective vision of the finite self.
This delightful anthology rounds up the most memorable walker-writers, from country hikers to urban strollers, from the rationalists to the truly outlandish. All of... Læs mere