Essay

Siri Hustvedt

Living, Thinking, Looking

A dazzling collection of essays by the bestselling author of What I Loved - thought-provoking, engaging, illuminating reflections on what it means to be humanHer erudition, the sharp clarity of her thinki…

David Foster Wallace

Consider the Lobster

A brilliant and hilarious new collection of essays from the award-winning author of the bestseller "Infinite Jest".

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World Revisited

'One of the most important books to have been published since the war' Daily Telegraph"A brilliant tour de force, Brave New World may be read as a grave warning of the pitfalls that await uncontrolled sci…

Jonathan Franzen

How to Be Alone

Leidenschaftliche, eigenwillige Essays des ebenso sprachtalentierten wie erfolgreichen amerikanischen Autors Jonathan Franzen. Passionate, strong-minded non-fiction from the national book award-winnning a…

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

This literary landmark about the male supremacy and female subordination at Oxford University shines a brave, searing light on the obstacles that must be overcome on the path toward a harmonious unity of …

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy

Sylvia Plath was one of the defining voices of twentieth-century poetry, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to poetry. This edition offers a selection of Sy…

Nadine Gordimer

Telling Times

Dieses Buch vereint alle politischen und ethischen Essays von Nadine Gordimer, sie manifestiert damit ihre Bedeutung als Visionärin und Literatin.

Hunter S. Thompson

Hell's Angels

Shoulder-length hair streaming, swastikas jangling, filthy death's-head-emblazoned denims crackling in the wind - the Hell's Angels are out on a run, and America's West Coast cowers in loathing. Press rep…

Bill Bryson

Mother Tongue

Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English. From its mongrel orig…

Paul Auster

The Red Notebook

In this acrobatic and virtuosic collection, Paul Auster traces the compulsion to make literature. In a selection of interviews, as well as in the collection's title essay, Auster reflects upon his own wor…

David Sedaris

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Neue Geschichten aus der Hölle, die Familie heißt. Der vergötterte Vater ist in Wirklichkeit ein peinlicher Wicht, die Mutter hat dich sowieso nie verstanden, die Kameraden sind alle cooler und reicher al…

Aldous Huxley

The Doors of Perception

May 2013 marks the 60th anniversary of Huxley's famous mescalin experiment and the genesis of this profoundly wise and humane book about his experienceWITH A FORWARD BY J. G. BALLARD In 1953, in the pres…

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is recognized as a major twentieth-century author and was a central figure in the Bloomsbury group. Her most famous novels include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves and…

Bret Easton Ellis

White

'Thought-provoking' The Times 'Bracing and fun' Mail on Sunday 'Staggeringly good' Eric Idle Candid, fearless and provocative, Bret Easton Ellis is best known for writing the era-defining novel American…

John Freeman

Tales of Two Planets

Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together some of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental c…

Jonathan Franzen

The End of the End of the Earth

Ellena Savage

Blueberries

Olivia Laing

Funny Weather

'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' Telegraph 'One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction' Harper's Bazaar 'Her gift as a critic is her ability to imaginati…

Bret Easton Ellis

White

Own it, snowflakes: you've lost everything you claim to hold dear. White is Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction. Already the bad boy of American literature, from Less Than Zero to American Psych…