San Francisco is a city designed for artists and wanderers. From North Beach, to Chinatown, to the c... more

A leading radical intellectual tackles the many controversial interpretations of Wagner s work For o... more

This is the first English translation of Johann Friedrich Daube s Musical Dilettante: A Treatise on ... more

Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), one of the principal figures associated with the Frankfurt School, wr... more

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Alain Badiou is perhaps the world s most significant living philosopher. In his annual seminars on m... more

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Tessa is a thirty-seven-year-old real estate agent living in Montreal. She adores her husband and th... more

Wes Anderson s Fantastic Mr. Fox meets Richard Scarry s Best Word Book Ever in this stylish picture ... more

The kids at school call her rag girl because she hides under layers of oversized clothing, but she c... more

In this powerful new graphic novel from Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault, we meet Louis, a young b... more

Africans than he realizes. Exquisitely translated by Susan Bernofsky, Go, Went, Gone addresses one of the most pivotal issues...... more

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I m 79 years old. So why on earth should I concern myself with speaking about youth? This is the qu... more

The Chinese Communist government has twice invoked large-scale military might to crush popular upris... more

Why bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and ... more

Martin Heidegger was an ordinary Nazi and a loyal member of the provincial petty bourgeoisie. He was... more

Alexander I was a ruler with high aspirations for the people of Russia. Cosseted as a young grand du... more

Love Lessons, the distinguished American poet Susan Stewart brings us the largest and most comprehensive selection of...... more

For years China s international investment interests focused on a search for natural resources in Af... more

Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the ... more

Few people would contest that modern capitalism comes with major costs: it damages the environment, ... more

A fantastic novel in every sense of the word...not only because Spjut has accomplished the masterstr... more

Few people would contest that modern capitalism comes with major costs: it damages the environment, ... more