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For a book in a genre that relies on convention and pastiche, this is an incredibly fresh and, most strikingly, lean work.
On a sweltering summer day, Makiko travels from Osaka to Tokyo, where her sister Natsu lives. She is in the …
One of the most unique aspects of anarchism as a political philosophy is that it seeks to abolish the state. …
Bell hooks, one of America's leading black intellectuals, is also one of our most clear-eyed and penetrating analysts of culture. …
It's early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side, and the alienation of Moshfegh's unnamed young protagonist from others …
This book is a series of profiles of American indie rock bands from 1981 - 1991. Black Flag, Mission of …
People have made lots of comparisons between Bourdain and Hunter S Thompson, but there’s no truer comparison between Medium Raw and HST’s later work. Collections of sometimes disjoint invective that have peaks and troughs but mostly hit the mark very satisfyingly. Poignant moments abound but the real highlights might be the almost saccharine moments of concentrated hatred for individuals, and the class commentary and lyrical ballet of My Aim is True.
(He still didn’t have a good moral argument against most vegetarianism after all that time though)
Call for the Dead is John le Carré's first novel, published in 1961. It introduces George Smiley, the most famous …
The novel begins in 1939 with the arrival of 19-year-old Josef "Joe" Kavalier as a refugee in New York City, …
