"Library Lives: A Constellation of Books and Objects From the Rylands" plots the lifelong love affair between one particular bookworm and the John Rylands Library in Manchester, its collections drawn from every corner and period of the textual and me...

A biography of "Native Son's" Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racism. Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" (1940), eludes easy categorization. A v...

The best essays from America's premier cultural historian. Jackson Lears has been hailed as "America's premier cultural historian", the "dean of American cultural history", and "one of the few pre-eminent historians of our time". Well known for his...

A reexamination of 1970s France as a decade of intellectual, cultural, and political consequence, both then and now. Number 143 of Yale French Studies, "The French Seventies", reintroduces and reorients readers to a decade typically considered a pe...

Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize 2019 Poetry Book Society Recommendations 2012 and 2016 Forward Prize for Best Collection finalist 2013 Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation 2013 "I love paintings that give us glimpses of ordinary people in rooms that...

In "Partita", Gabriel Josipovici's precipitate novel, Michael Penderecki is in flight. Someone has threatened to kill him. He is surrounded by sinister questions. Who is the woman dead in the bathtub? Is she really dead? Why does the voice of Yves Mo...

The Pulitzer Prize For Poetry 2023 Carl Phillips's "Scattered Snows, to the North" is a collection aboutp distortion and revelation, about knowing and the unreliability of a knowledge that's rooted in (always unstable) human memory. If the poet's r...

A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud. In this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips explore how the second chance has been an essential feature of the literary imaginati...

Shortlisted for The Jhalak Prize 2022 Poetry Book Society Choice 2021 Longlisted for The BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Literature 2020 "Polkadot Wounds" is full of the jumbled delight, frustration, restlessness and continuity of trying to live a connec...

Longlisted for the Read Russia Prize 2018; Shortlisted 2020 Shortlisted for The Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize 2018 Longlisted for The International Dylan Thomas Prize 2018 "Why Are You Shouting?", James Womack's fourth Carcanet collection, thinks abou...