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In the cultural ferment of late nineteenth-century London, three fascinating but often overlooked figures navigated the world in the shadow of their celebrated brothers. Willie Wilde, the hapless yet charming older sibling of Oscar, never quite matched his brother's literary genius. Mabel Beardsley, the striking and ambitious sister of Aubrey, played a crucial role in his artistic ascent before forging her own path on the stage. And Howard Sturgis, a minor novelist with a sharp wit, watched as his brother Julian achieved the success he himself never quite grasped.

Afryka w oczach Tadeusza Biedzkiego, pół wieku po opisaniu przez Ryszarda Kapuścińskiego, jawi się okrutniejsza niż u wybitnego pisarza. Afrykańskie problemy, dramaty i tragedie są dziś większe, bardziej przerażające. Biedzki w ciągu trzydziestu lat wędrówek dotarł do miejsc, gdzie było niewielu białych (przypuszczalnie jako pierwszy Polak był u źródeł Nigru). Pisze o porywaniu i zabijaniu dzieci przez czarowników, gwałceniu i mordowaniu albinosów, o chorobach, duchach i szamanach, losie białych, miłości i seksie, o szokujących obliczach wojen i o tym, czego najbardziej pożądają Afrykanie.

Après avoir érigé un inoubliable tombeau littéraire à l'homme de sa vie ( L'Année de la pensée magique ), Joan Didion adresse, dans Le Bleu de la nuit , un vibrant hommage à leur fille, décédée quelques semaines à peine avant la parution de la Pensée magique aux États-Unis. Mais qu'on ne se méprenne pas : loin d'en être une « suite », ce récit serait plutôt son image en miroir, une variation inversée. On y retrouve, intactes, la puissance et la singularité de l'écriture de Didion : sèche, précise, lumineuse face à la nuit.

Agatha Christie is a global bestseller. Her work has been translated into over 100 languages and adapted for stage and screen. Christie's writing life ran from 1920 to the 1970s, and she didn't just write puzzles, she wrote plays, supernatural stories, thrillers, satires, and domestic noir. She...

Thomas More is an enduringly fascinating and profoundly controversial figure. A brilliant scholar, his Utopia of 1516 dared to imagine how society might be completely reordered. At the same time, his hatred of the Reformation caused him to advocate, and seek to implement, the death penalty for...

From the legendary avant-garde poet Kim Hyesoon, a landmark collection documenting her first and only work of digital performance art to date. “Poetry in Korea has been a vaunted form—and traditionally left to men. Kim broke away from the masculine styles that came before her. . . . Kim has...

A spirited and truly compelling literary biography of the immortal travel writer, journalist and twentieth-century trans pioneer, Jan Morris. When Jan Morris joined the 1953 Everest expedition and was first to get news of the ascent back to the young Queen Elizabeth in London, she became the...

Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874-January 29, 1963) was an American poet who frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. The following recording is from a 1954 lecture Frost gave on poetry and writers Charles Dickens, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, Walter Savage Landor, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Percy Shelley, and John Masefield.

'A book to underline endlessly, to dog-ear, to carry around until battered, and then to tell all your friends to buy because you're too reluctant to give up your own copy. A wonder’ Polly Barton ‘Dazzling … one fine day, you open a book by an unknown writer, and a charge of pure talent...

"This is a deeply stylish, astute and illuminating biography of a fascinating writer" FRANCESCA WADE, author of Square Haunting "Utterly charming. A book as elegant, sharp-witted and mischievous as its subject" CLARE POLLARD, author of Delphi "Like a Spark novel, the moment my eyes met the page...

A delightful compendium of musings from the master of life writing, the much-loved Blake Morrison, for those who practise the art of memoir, and those who read it. 'Hallelujah! — now is the perfect time for Morrison’s book On Memoir' THE TIMES ON MEMOIR is a gloriously freewheeling...

When Jan Morris joined the 1953 Everest expedition and was first to get news of the ascent back to London, she became the most famous journalist in the world. So began a glittering career covering the Eichmann trial, interviewing Che Guevara and scooping the story of Suez collusion. Morris transitioned in the early seventies and documented the experience in Conundrum. She was a pioneer and her books, including Venice and the Pax Britannica trilogy, have inspired readers across the globe.

Best known as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance, the celebrated poet and writer Langston Hughes believed in the power of art as resistance. What can we learn from his works today? Randal M. Jelks delivers this revelatory portrait of the celebrated poet, essayist, playwright, and American...

Julia Alvarez returns to her first love, poetry, in her latest collection, with scintillating poems drawn from all the seasons of her life, from childhood to the years of silver. “Visitations is a cause for celebration. The first book of poems by Julia Alvarez in over twenty years braids...

Neste livro, Vida e Legado, convidamos você a mergulhar na trajetória de três dos maiores mestres da literatura mundial: Arthur Conan Doyle, Julio Verne e H. G. Wells. Cada um deles, em seu tempo e espaço, transcendeu os limites da imaginação e transformou a forma como vemos o mundo, a ciência, a sociedade e o próprio ser humano.

Olivia Laing nos ofrece en este nuevo ensayo un análisis del cuerpo y sus insatisfacciones a través de los grandes movimientos por la libertad del siglo XX. El cuerpo es una fuente de placer y de dolor, a su vez vulnerable y rebosante de poder. En este ambicioso ensayo, Olivia Laing emprende...

El estudio definitivo sobre el intelectual más influyente del siglo XX La literatura de George Orwell se ha convertido en un fenómeno de masas mundial. Hay pocas estanterías en las que falten sus dos clásicos intemporales: la parábola de la revolución bolchevique Rebelión en la granja y...

¿Quién era realmente J.R.R. Tolkien? ¿Qué lo llevó a crear uno de los mundos más ricos, complejos y universales de la literatura moderna? En este libro claro, atractivo y documentado, el catedrático Matthew Townend —experto en filología medieval y literatura comparada— traza un retrato profundo y accesible de Tolkien, explorando sus estudios, su vida personal, sus pasiones lingüísticas y sus influencias culturales. Además, incluye un prólogo especial de Miguel Salas (La brújula de la escóbula), que conecta la obra de Tolkien con la filosofía y el pensamiento simbólico.

George Eliot pushed the boundaries of fiction and of Victorian society. She was an extraordinary woman whose unconventional life meant that she was judged harshly by family, friends, and strangers. Eliot wanted to draw attention to the feelings and motivations of ordinary people, so that we...

"Mason Currey is the undisputed master of finding, in the messy lives of great artists and thinkers throughout time, deeply human lessons about cultivating meaning in our current age." —Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of Slow Productivity and Deep Work Daily Rituals author Mason...