Other: 359 books
by Oleg Pavlov
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The Matiushin Case is one of the darkest and most powerful works of fiction to appear in Russian in the last twenty years. Deriving, like Captain of the Steppe (2013, And Other Stories), from Oleg Pavlov's own traumatic experience as a conscript in the last years of the Soviet Union, it follows the...
by Sadi Mckena
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2015
Barry is a beacon - a fog horn for supernatural creatures. They come looking for him far and wide because they desire his power, a power he doesn’t fully understand.
A pack of werewolves vowed to protect Barry if they could “own” him, little did he know that owning someone meant spreading...
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
"A whole moment of happiness!
Is that too little for the whole of a man’s life?"
“White Nights” is a novella by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881).
First published in 1848, it was translated in English by Constance Garnett (1861–1946) in 1918.
“White Nights”...
When the Night
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Manfred, a surly mountaineer recently abandoned by his wife, rents the upstairs apartment in his home in the Dolomites to Marina, a woman from the city, and her difficult young son. Deeply suspicious by nature, especially of women, Manfred spies obsessively on Marina, in whose shortcomings as a mother...
Dreadful
The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
American author John Horne Burns (1916–1953) led a brief and controversial life, and as a writer, transformed many of his darkest experiences into literature. Burns was born in Massachusetts, graduated from Andover and Harvard, and went on to teach English at the Loomis School, a boarding school...
At the Existentialist Café
Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times, a spirited account of a major intellectual movement of the twentieth century and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it, by the best-selling author of How to Live Sarah Bakewell.
Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over...
How to Live
Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you do the...
by Andrew S. Curran
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who helped build the foundations of the modern world.
Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopédie into existence. But his most daring writing took place...
Stranger in a Strange Land
Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Taking his lead from his subject, Gershom Scholem—the 20th century thinker who cracked open Jewish theology and history with a radical reading of Kabbalah—Prochnik combines biography and memoir to counter our contemporary political crisis with an original and urgent reimagining of the future of...
A Very English Scandal
Sex, Lies, and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Now a major TV drama series starring Hugh Grant and Ben Wishaw, a behind-the-scenes look at the desperate, scandalous private life of a British MP and champion manipulator, and the history-making trial that exposed his dirty secrets
While Jeremy Thorpe served as a Member of Parliament and Leader...
How Much is Enough?
Money and the Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
A provocative and timely call for a moral approach to economics, drawing on philosophers, political theorists, writers, and economists from Aristotle to Marx to Keynes.
What constitutes the good life? What is the true value of money? Why do we work such long hours merely to acquire greater...
Story of My People
Essays and Social Criticism on Italy's Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Winner of the 2011 Strega Prize, this blend of essay, social criticism, and memoir is a striking portrait of the effects of globalization on Italy’s declining economy.
Starting from his family’s textile factory in Prato, Tuscany, Edoardo Nesi examines the recent shifts in Italy’s manufacturing...
A Map of Home
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Nidali, the rebellious daughter of an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, narrates the story of her childhood in Kuwait, her teenage years in Egypt (to where she and her family fled the 1990 Iraqi invasion), and her family's last flight to Texas. Nidali mixes humor with a sharp, loving...
The Glitter Scene
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Teenage Johanna lives with her aunt Solveig in a small house bordering the forest on the outskirts of a remote coastal town in Finland. She leads a lonely existence that is punctuated by visits to her privileged classmate, Ulla Bäckström, who lives in the nearby luxury gated community. It isn’t...