By: Ishiguro, Kazuo
Paperback | $17.00 | 9781400078776
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes "a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist--a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic. As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy...
By: Lish, Atticus
Paperback | $16.95 | 9780991360826
Zou Lei, orphan of the desert, migrates to work in America and finds herself slaving in New York's kitchens. She falls in love with a young man whose heart has been broken in another desert. A new life may be possible if together they can survive homelessness, lockup, and the young man's nightmares...
By: Debord, Guy
Paperback | $22.95 | 9780942299793
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of...
By: Arendt, Hannah
Paperback | $19.99 | 9780156701532
Recognized on publicaton as the definitive account of its subject and ten years later hailed as a classic by the "Times Literary Supplement," this remarkable book has been foremost wherever the characteristics and problems of the twentieth century are discussed. Dr. Arendt's study begins with an...
By: Fallada, Hans
Paperback | $16.95 | 9781933633657
One of the great German writers of the 20th century draws from his own life to present a "brave, fearless, and honest" tale of one man's dark descent into depression and alcoholism (The Sunday Times, London) This astonishing, autobiographical tour de force was written by Hans...
By: Horkheimer, Max ; Adorno, Theo
Paperback | $28.00 | 9780804736336
Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the...
By: Klay, Phil
Paperback | $17.00 | 9780143126829
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction "
Redeployment is hilarious, biting, whipsawing and sad. It's the best thing written so far on what the war did to people's souls." --Dexter Filkins,
The New York Times Book Review Selected as one of the best books of the year by...
By: Benjamin, Walter
Paperback | $40.00 | 9780674008021
To great writers, Walter Benjamin once wrote, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives. Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) is...
