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In this keenly awaited new collection, Zadie Smith brings her unique skills as an essayist to bear on a range of subjects which have captured her attention in recent years. She asks us to look again at the young Michael Jackson and to mourn with her the passing of writers Joan Didion, Martin Amis, Hilary Mantel, Philip Roth and Toni Morrison.

A timely, moving, and piercingly intelligent essay collection from one of our finest contemporary writersFor thirty years Anne Enright has been paying attention- casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature and her own life, and gifting us with her precise insights.Anne Enrigh...

An illuminating new essay collection from one of the most distinctive, exciting and acclaimed writers of her generation, Zadie Smith‘Zadie Smith is a wonderful essayist. She is a natural. She writes as she thinks, and she thinks crisply and exactly’ – Tessa Hadley, GuardianIn this keenly await...

The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.‘This trenchant, unrepentant collection reminds you that she’s a brilliant writer… Order a copy in case she’s cancelled by Christmas’ THE TIMES (Book of the Year)‘You may disagree with Lionel Shriver’s bracin...

documents a jewel duel between Octavia Cook and Warwick Freeman, conducted by email in November 2024. Octavia fired the first (R (Rock), 2022) and 13 jewels selected from the archives of either artist followed.

History is filled with unacceptable sounds: high-pitched voices, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing, ritual shouts. From whom? Those deviant from or deficient in the masculine ideal of self-control: women, catamites, eunuchs and androgynes. From antiquity to Margaret Thatcher via Sigmund Freud...

The early writings of renowned poet and critical theorist Jackie Wang, drawn from her early zines, indie-lit crit, and prolific early 2000s blog.Compiled as a field guide, travelogue, essay collection, and weather report, Alien Daughters Walk into the Sun traces Jackie Wang’s trajectory from hard ...

Named a best book of 2017 by NPR, The Guardian, Slate, NYLON and The Globe and Mail (Canada)From Durga Chew-Bose, “one of our most gifted, insightful essayists and critics" (Nylon), comes "a warmly considered meld of criticism and memoir" (New Yorker), a lyrical and piercingly insightful debut col...

Published as a standalone on International Woman's Day, the essay that became a touchstone of the feminist movement and inspired the term 'mansplaining', with an afterword on its origins.Published as a standalone on International Woman's Day, the essay that became a touchstone of the feminist moveme...

From acclaimed critic, novelist and academic W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, a collection of essay on the Austrian writers who meant so much to himAs a German in self-chosen exile from his country of birth, Sebald found a particular affinity with these writers from a neig...

'One of the most important books to be published in years' SARA COLLINS'There are few writers with Li’s power' DOUGLAS STUART'An extraordinary book’ SARAH MOSS'A manifesto of living' SINÉAD GLEESONA remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance from acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist Yiyun Li a...

One of Esquire's 20 Most Anticipated Books of 2025One of Foreign Policy's Most Anticipated Books of 2025One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025One of Electric Literature's 48 Books by Women of Colour to Read in 2025When Vauhini Vara was fourteen, her sister was diagnosed with cancer. Too ter...

From twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a moving and revelatory collection exploring the muses that have shaped her life and work as a writer.

Threading memoir and personal reflections with travelogue, philosophy, photography and references from a wide variety of writers and thinkers, is a captivating, illuminating and expansive journey into the heart of the modern city.In Gregor Hens considers the phenomenon of the contemporary city and o...

An anti-memoir, a list, a listless blur – is a highly original, moving and absurd book by one of the most influential artists of his generation, formally inventive and disturbingly of our time.‘I like eating cold, clammy wraps from big pharmacies that are open late and sell just a few foods like...

'Tawada's strange, exquisite book toys with ideas of language, identity and what it means to own someone else's story or one's own' The New Yorkeron Tawada's Memoirs of a Polar BearAre you formed by your mother tongue?How might the world unfold if you stepped outside of its rhythms?In this playful a...

A NEW, REVISED EDITION OF THE ULTIMATE NORA EPHRON COLLECTION, PACKED WITH WIT, WISDOM AND COMFORT, WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS“The perfect introduction to the iconic writer" STYLISTINCLUDING:Nora’s much-loved essays on everything from friendship to feminism to journalismExt...

From the beloved bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a posthumous collection of newly discovered writing, offering a fresh perspective on the remarkable literary mind behind To Kill a Mockingbird.Featuring an introduction by Casey Cep, Harper Lee's appointed biographer.Harper Lee remains a...

''I revere Helen Garner''s writing, and it''s in her diaries that she''s at her acute, rigorous, pitch-perfect best''Nigella Lawson''I come back again and again to Garner''s diaries and always find something new to admire. Her wit and observations are brilliant and her thoughts on writing are a guid...

In 1920, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published Maxim Gorky's Reminiscences of Tolstoy and it was recognized almost immediately as one of the few masterpieces of modern biography. 'It is one of the most remarkable biographical pieces ever written, ' writes Leonard Woolf in his autobiog...

An exciting new collection of autobiographical essays by Jenny Erpenbeck, winner of the 2024 Booker International Prize: “She is among the most sophisticated and powerful novelists we have―it’s no surprise that she is already bruited as a future Nobelist." ―Dwight Garner, The New York TimesT...

“Wade Davis is a true wayfinder, and these essays offer new insight into his visionary approach to culture, landscape, and the planet he loves as fiercely as any writer working today."—John Vaillant, author of Fire WeatherA timely and eclectic collection from one of the foremost thinkers of our ...