Prose: Non-Fiction

Buddhadeva Bose (1908-1974) is known to readers of Bengali as perhaps the greatest and most versatile talent in the Bengali literary sphere succeed...

I mean who cares about opinions, gossip, whatever, when bodies are so vulnerable, in search only of love and breath. Brilliant young writer Ellena ...

A selection of witty and provocative essays from the father of New Journalism, Gay Talese's Frank Sinatra Has a Cold and Other Essays is published ...

A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation and the debut of an important new socia...

One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literatureby turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special ki...

For avid readers and the uninitiated alike, this is a chance to reengage with classic literature and to stay inspired and entertained. The concept ...

Summer is fireflies and sparklers. Fat red tomatoes sliced thin and salted. Lemonade and long dreamy days. The treasures of the season are gone muc...

A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY BOOK Good bookshops are questions without answers. They are places that provoke you intellectually, encode ri...

A selection of extracts documenting the friendship between Louis Bouilhet and Gustave Flaubert.

Even on holiday, sex and death are Jean-Philippe Toussaint s constant companions...

Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon ... scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore: The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in...

For many years, Ana Maria Spagna has stayed put, mostly, in a small mountain valley at the head of a glacier-carved lake. Youre so lucky to live th...

In Praise of Disobedience draws on works from a single miraculous year in which Oscar Wilde published the larger part of his greatest works in pros...

Be with me alwaystake any formdrive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Thus does Heathcliff beg his dead Cathy in...

In This Fish Is Fowl Xu Xi offers the transnational and feminist perspective of a contemporary glocalized American life. Xus quirky, darkly comic, ...

Morris's intimate journals, written for a friend, unconsciously explore questions of travel, noting his reaction to the idea of leaving or arriving...