A collection of insightful and funny essays from the bestselling and award-winning author. Includes essays on a range of subjects including literature, film, music icons, Brexit, the presidency of Donald Trump and climate change. For fans of David Foster Wallace's "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again".

The author of "Deep South" and "The Great Railway Bazaar"'s body of work is mined for its best bits, brought together here, with profiles of famous people such as Oliver Sacks and Robin Williams, reflections from Theroux's own reading, and extracts from the iconic travel writing.

Aged thirteen when Anne Frank went into the secret annexe, Anne kept a diary in which she confided her innermost thoughts and feelings, movingly revealing how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with the daily threat of discovery and death, petty misunderstandings and the unbearable strain of living like prisoners.

At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for writers and artists of all kinds. This edition deals with these letters.

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.

"There is scarcely one letter by Van Gogh which I, who am certainly no expert, do not find fascinating." --W. H. Auden

Deborah Levy is a British playwright, novelist and poet. She is the author of seven novels: Beautiful Mutants (1986); Swallowing Geography (1993); The Unloved (1994); Billy & Girl (1996); Swimming Home (2011); Hot Milk (2016) and the forthcoming The Man Who Saw Everything (2019). Swimming Home was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012; Hot Milk was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 and the Goldsmiths Prize 2016. Deborah is also the author of an acclaimed collection of short st...

The definitive collection of poems from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing have left a vivid markIlluminated by a resonant voice and conjuring the desperation and absurdity of being human, the perceptive poetry of Charles Bukowski transcends its particular moment to speak to us as forcefully today as when it was written. Taking on a wide range of subjects?from love to death to sex to writing?Bukowski's unvarnished poetry touches on enduring concerns ...