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Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Katherine Boo, a staff writer at the New Yorker, spent more than three years living with the residents of Annawadi, a slum close to Mumbai a... See details

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John Ashbery

Homeless Heart
When I think of finishing a work, when I think of the finished work, a great sadness overtakes me, a sadness paradoxica... See details

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Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms of America

Clive Stafford Smith

Deborah Friedell writes:
There are more than two million incarcerated Americans. If the system gets it right even 95 per cent of the ti... See details

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The Woman Reader

Belinda Jack

‘Since time immemorial, reading has been deemed subversive, disruptive, or threatening to the stability of a relationship, a community, even a nati... See details

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The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs

Steve Roud and Julia Bishop

Steve Roud and Julia Bishop select 150 of the most collected songs from the English folk song corpus, providing each one with its original tune and... See details

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Selected Poems

Don Paterson

Peter Howarth writes:

Paterson is genuinely interested in the theatricality of poetic ‘voice’, that operatic construction of pers... See details

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Freedom and the Arts: Essays on Music and Literature

Charles Rosen

In a series of essays on music, literature and philosophy Charles Rosen, pianist and Professor Emeritus of Music and Social Thought at the Universi... See details

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Nonsense

Christopher Reid

The title piece of the latest collection by Christopher Reid, described as ‘a quartet of works for voice’, is a dramatic monologue starring the rec... See details

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Swimming Studies

Leanne Shapton

Leanne Shapton’s last book, Important Artifacts and Personal Propert... See details

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The Teleportation Accident

Ned Beauman

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Fantastically inventive, ingenious and funny new novel from author of the acclaimed BOXER BEETLE. See details

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The Event of Literature

Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton draws on analytical philosophy, something that literary theorists have tended to resist, to illuminate what literature is, and to as... See details

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Cairo: My City, Our Revolution

Ahdaf Soueif

‘We were given, we were vouchsafed, eighteen golden days; eighteen days when we all pulled together to get rid of the head of the regime that was d... See details

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New Selected Stories

Alice Munro

Tessa Hadley writes:
Munro’s genius, as she imagines what is going on inside the closed worlds of individual lives, has to do with her e... See details

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The Professor

Terry Castle

Terry Castle’s essays are profound, moving, thought-provoking and often laugh-out-loud funny. Alongside pieces that LRB readers will already... See details