This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
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Across three centuries, and much of Europe - "Holmes writes beautifully...A masterly performance by...

Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness (Notes on Blindness Film Tie-in)
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Touching the Rock is a unique exploration of that distant, infinitely strange 'other world' of...

The First Modern Japanese: The Life of Ishikawa Takuboku
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Many books in Japanese have been devoted to the poet and critic Ishikawa Takuboku (1886-1912)....

Lincoln's Notebooks: Letters, Speeches, Journals, and Poems
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In addition to being one of the most admired and successful politicians in history, Abraham Lincoln...
Making an Elephant: Writing from within
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As a novelist Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into...

Maya Angelou: Adventurous Spirit
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A comprehensive biographical and critical reading of the works of American poet and memoirist Maya...

A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder is the first of its kind to engage with this important...

Critical Muslim 04: Pakistan?
Ziauddin Sardar and Robin Yassin-Kassab
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Ziauddin Sardar questions the question mark that is always placed in front of Pakistan, Robin...

The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss
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From one of the most revered scholars of religion, an incisive explanation of how the word "God"...

The Melencolia Manifesto
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Few artworks have been the subject of more extensive modern interpretation than Melencolia I by...