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Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic Michiko Kakutani shares 100 personal, thought-provoking essays about books that have mattered to her and tha...

Review The Arctic dreamland seen and described by a writer of rare perception and poetic descriptive power... The pages sparkle with Arctic li...

Review As with the very best literature, its crystalline readability fast eclipses its topicality ― Mail on Sunday [A] devastating portrait of vi...

Review Playful and inventive . . . One More Thing is a special read ― Shortlist A teller of funny, skew-whiff tales . . . Novak has, like, totall...

In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraor...

An insightful new book putting Einstein's work in a contemporary context Few figures loom as large as Albert Einstein in our contemporary culture....

This 1998 book describes the physics of superconductivity and superfluidity, macroscopic quantum phenomena found in many conductors at low temperat...

Review The most valuable single book yet published about Eliot -- Jonathan Raban ― Sunday Times A nuanced, discerning account of a life famously ...

Unbelievably cute and easy-to follow Kawaii drawing, broken down into step-by-step exercises which anyone can master. 'Kawaii' means cute in Japan...

Chika Akatsuki and Shito Tachibana survived an otherwise fatal accident by making a deal with the Zombie-Loan office. Now they repay their debt as ...

Artists II is the second volume of Jason Schmidt’s ongoing photographic documentation of today’s most significant artists. From young to old creati...