In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux's Simple Passion documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion.

S. Vestdijk; 'De duizendvoudige tong.

Keuze uit 40 jaar Vestdijkkronieken door Wilbert van Walstijn'.

Vestdijkkenner Van Walstijn selecteerde twintig artikelen uit veertig jaargangen Vestdijkkronieken, die een goede impressie gegeven van Vestdijk als dichter, romancier, essayist en criticus. Een mooie inleiding voor een ieder die (hernieuwd) wil kennis maken met deze grootmeester van de Nederlandse literatuur. Het is het tweede deel uit de Prominent-reks, een imprint van uitgeverij TIEM.

ONE OF THE WHITE REVIEW'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019Elizabeth Hardwick's iconic essay collection Seduction and Betrayal is a radical portrait of women and literature, reissued with a new introduction by Deborah Levy. 'Hardwick's sentences are burned in my brain.' - Susan SontagSidelined.

A masterpiece of Scottish nature writing by Nan Shepherd, now introduced by Robert Macfarlane and with an afterword by Jeanette Winterson

IN THIS VOLUME, Catherine Dunne, Colum McCann, Mark O’Connell, and Sara Baume, among other Irish writers tell of a country striving to stay a step ahead of time.

Flush was an English cocker spaniel who belonged to the nineteenth-century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Virginia Woolf learned of him from the love letters Elizabeth wrote to her future husband, fellow poet Robert Browning, and found ‘the figure of their dog made me laugh so, I couldn't resist making him a Life.’ The resulting ‘biography’ combines sensuous imaginative description with sharp social comment, and brings Woolf’s unsentimental humour and insight to the fore. We see F...

This anthology reflects a search of the Ukrainian nation for its identity, the roots of which lie deep inside Ukrainian-language poetry. Some of the included poets are well-known locally and internationally; among them are Serhiy Zhadan, Halyna Kruk, Ostap Slyvynsky, Marianna Kijanowska, Oleh Kotsarev, Anna Bagriana and, of course, the living legend of Ukrainian poetry, Vasyl Holoborodko. The next Ukrainian poetic generation also features prominently in the collection. Such poets as Les Beley...

Na een succesvolle eerste editie in 2013 van Noord Houdt Woord - hét boekenfeest dat de Boekenweek in het Noorden opent - deden we het in 2014 nog eens dunnetjes over. Dit keer in de Der Aa-kerk in Groningen met bekende én minder bekende schrijvers en dichters. Niet alleen uit Groningen, Friesland en Drenthe, maar ook uit de rest van Nederland en uit Vlaanderen.

In deze gelegenheidsbundel vindt u een fraaie bloemlezing verhalen en gedichten van schrijvers en dichters die hebben voorgedrage...

Georges Perec produced some of the most entertaining and spirited essays of his age. His literary output was amazingly varied in form and style and this generous selection of Perec's non-fictional work also demonstrates his characteristic lightness of touch, wry humour and accessibility.

Postcolonialism has become one of the most exciting, popular and stimulating fields of literary and cultural studies in recent years. Yet the variety of approaches, the range of debate and the critical vocabularies often used may make it challenging for new students to establish a firm foothold in this area. Beginning Postcolonialism is a vital resource for those taking undergraduate courses in postcolonial studies for the first time and has become an established international best-seller in ...