Ralph Waldo Emerson 
Society and Solitude 
Twelve Chapters

"The Future of the Women’s Movement" by Helena M. Swanwick is a thought-provoking essay advocating feminism, women’s rights, and social change. Swanwick, a prominent figure in the suffrage …

Featuring essays from David Olusoga, Dawn Butler MP, Kit de Waal, Kwame Kwei-Armah, and many more.In response to the international outcry at George Floyd's death, Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder …

A Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, The Rest is Politics and Waterstones Highlight for 2024 ” Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wheel. What we have here is a truly encyclopae …

Human consciousness, long the province of literature, has lately come in for a remapping – even rediscovery – by the natural sciences, driven by developments in Artificial Intelligence, neuroscience, …

The Suspecting Glance (first published in 1972) collects Conor Cruise O'Brien's four T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures as delivered at the University of Kent, Canterbury, in November 1969. The …

This selection of clinical seminars held by Wilfred Bion in Brasilia (1975) and Sao Paulo (1978) is the nearest we shall ever get to experiencing his application of his theories and views to …

Finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism ”Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring … highly intelligent, furiously funny” Sunday Times …

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNow includes ELEVEN new columns and a whole THREE new prime ministers.Relive the delusional fever-dream of the modern era.”Thank f*ck for Marina Hyde: the most lethal, …

This volume sheds light on an array of topics from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring and Marlon Brando . Then there are investigations of a shelf”s worth …

”Thoroughly researched and written with such calm authority, yet makes you want to scream with righteous indignation” John O”Farrell ”We can expect the manifesto-writers at the next general e …