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Autumn by Ali Smith

A girl's friendship with an older neighbor stands at the center of this multifaceted meditation on aging, art, love, and …

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (Broadview Editions)

Over a hundred and fifty years after its initial publication, Emily Brontë’s turbulent portrayal of the Earnshaws and the Lintons, …

A Ballet of Lepers by Leonard Cohen

Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag

Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence …

Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman

Anne Fadiman is (by her own admission) the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of …

Lost in Thought - The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz

Writers & Lovers by Lily King

Manikanetish by Naomi Fontaine

The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell

Liminal by Jordan Tannahill

Liminal by Jordan Tannahill

Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to …

How to be both by Ali Smith

This is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's …

Love: A Very Short Introduction by Ronald de Sousa

The Meaning of Life by Terry Eagleton (Very Short Introductions)