Afghanistan in Ink: Literature Between Diaspora and Nation
Nile Green, Nushin Arbabzadah
Columbia University Press, HB, 9780231703420
Afghanistan in Ink uses a vast and largely unknown corpus of twentieth-century Afghan Dari and Pashto literature to show how Afghans have conceived of their modern history and how writers' patronage or exile has dominated the contours of that history. Drawing on an abundance of Afghan-language sources, chapters by international experts reveal a disruptive twentieth-century dynamic, in which literary globalization has ... More/Buy
Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns
Robert Appelbaum
University of Chicago Press, PB, 9780226021270
We didn and Atilde;t always eat the way we do today, or think and feel about eating as we now do. But we can trace the roots of our own eating culture back to the culinary world of early modern Europe, which invented cutlery, haute cuisine, the weight-loss diet, and much else besides. Aguecheek and Atilde;s Beef, Belch and Atilde;s Hiccup ... More/Buy
The Art of Wandering: The Writer as Walker
Merlin Coverley
Oldcastle Books, HB, 9781842433706
The Art of Wandering is a history of that strange but prolific hybrid, the writer as walker. From the peripatetic philosophers of Ancient Greece to the streets of twentieth-century London, Paris and New York, this figure has continued to evolve through the centuries, the philosopher and the Romantic giving way to the experimentalist and radical. From pilgrim to pedestrian, flâneur to ... More/Buy
Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
Christopher Bram
Ecco Press, HB, 9780446563130
In the years following World War II, a small group of gay writers established themselves as literary power players, fuelling cultural changes that would resonate for decades to come, and transforming the American literary landscape forever. Novelist Christopher Bram chronicles the rise of gay consciousness in American writing, beginning with a first wave of major gay literary figures-Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, ... More/Buy
The Man Within My Head: Graham Greene, My Father and Me
Pico Iyer
Bloomsbury, PB, 9781408828755
In The Man Within My Head, Pico Iyer sets out to unravel the mysterious closeness he has always felt with the writer Graham Greene: he examines Greene's obsessions, his life on the road, his penchant for mystery. Iyer follows Greene's trail from his first novel, The Man Within, to such later classics as The Quiet American and begins to unpack all ... More/Buy
Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets: A New Commentary
Don Paterson
Faber, PB, 9780571245055
Shakespeare's Sonnets are as important and vital today as they were when first published four hundred years ago. Perhaps no collection of verse before or since has so captured the imagination of readers and lovers; certainly no poem has come under such intense critical scrutiny, and presented the reader with such a bewildering number of alternative interpretations. In this illuminating and ... More/Buy
Source: Nature's Healing Role in Art and Writing
Janine Burke
Allen & Unwin, PB, 9781742379371
For the artists and writers in this book - Claude Monet, Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Karen Blixen, Ernest Hemingway, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso and Emily Kame Kngwarreye - the act of re-creating Eden was a life-changing, art-making, healing rite that becomes both a map of their careers and an index of their subject matter. What unites these artists and ... More/Buy
Virgin and Veteran Readings of Ulysses
Margot Norris
Palgrave, PB, 9780230338722
A study of the processes of reading Ulysses as a narative. An original approach to Ulysses; no one has proposed a 'virgin' or simulated first-time reading before. Norris focuses on conflicts and dilemmas that produce suspense in the novel, which will be of particular use and interest to first-time readers of the ... More/Buy