As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, Booker Prize-winning author John Berger is a
writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he ...
“Playful and poetic . . . A foxy, original writer. Memory fuses with wonder, and
wonder with worship. —The Wall Street Journal“Marvelously vivid, perfectly tuned. . . Tolstaya is well known in Russia as a brilliant and caustic political critic, but ...
What conceptual blind spot kept the ancient Greeks (unlike the Indians and Maya) from developing
a concept of zero? Why did St. Augustine equate nothingness with the Devil? What tortuous means did 17th-century scientists employ in their attempts to create ...
From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil's Ghost comes a remarkable, intimate
novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, ...
Booker Prize-winning author John Berger, one of the most widely admired writers of our time,
returns us to the captivating play and narrative allure of his previous novels–G. and Pig Earth among them–with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his ...
Lilia Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. She spends her childhood
and adolescence traveling constantly and changing identities. In adulthood, she finds it impossible to stop. Haunted by an inability to remember her early childhood, she ...
John Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental
fiction. Though many of the stories gathered here were published separately, there are several themes common to them all, giving them new meaning in the ...
In Mrs. Osmond, John Banville continues the story of Isabel Archer, the young protagonist of
Henry James’s beloved The Portrait of a Lady. Eager but naïve, in James’s novel Isabel comes into a large, unforeseen inheritance and marries the charming, ...