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Essays on the Self

Virginia Woolf

The essays in this collection are, of course, not merely concerned with the self. Woolf does also discuss the rights of women, the revolutions of modernity, the past, present and future of the novel. She is eloquent on social inequality and the agony of war.

Nairn’s Towns

Ian Nairn

These essays show the late, great architectural critic Ian Nairn, writing about cities and towns as a whole rather than as collections of individual buildings.

What Do You Desire? The n+1 Anthology – Volume II

Christian Lorentzen

Volume II brings together the best essays from the last decade.

Things I Don’t Want To Know

Deborah Levy

Things I Don’t Want to Know is a unique response to George Orwell from one of our most vital contemporary writers. Taking Orwell’s famous list of motives for writing as the jumping-off point for a sequence of thrilling reflections on the writing life, this is a perfect companion not just to Orwell’s essay, but also to Levy’s own, essential oeuvre.

Junkspace with Running Room

Rem Koolhaas Hal Foster

In Junkspace, architect Rem Koolhaas itemised in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is here updated and twinned with Running Room, a fresh response from architectural critic Hal Foster.

On Dolls

Kenneth Gross

The essays and reflections in this collection explore the seriousness of play and the mysteries of inanimate life.

I Remember

Joe Brainard

Joe Brainard’s I Remember is a cult classic, envied and admired by writers from Frank O’Hara to John Ashbery and Edmund White. Introduced by Paul Auster.

You and Me: The Neuroscience of Identity

Susan Greenfield

A fascinating look at the relationship between identity and neuroscience in the age of social media. Greenfield looks at the ways in which technology impacts our brains and sense of identity.

Noriko Smiling

Adam Mars-Jones

Mars-Jones gives a virtuoso performance as the lost figure of the film explainer, drawing out a host of meaning from the reticence of Yasujirō Ozu’s classic Japanese movie Late Spring.

The Road to Apocalypse: The Extraordinary Journey of Lewis Way

Stanley Price Munro Price

In 1811 eccentric millionaire Lewis Way had an epiphany on the road to Exmouth. From that moment he devoted himself to one goal: the return of the Jews to the Holy Land, revealing a forgotten life story.

Humiliation

Wayne Koestenbaum

Endlessly surprising and entertaining, Humiliation is an essay-in-fragments unlike any other you will read on the human condition. With a disarming blend of personal reflection and cultural commentary, Wayne Koestenbaum walks us – at times cajoles us – through a spectrum of mortifications, in history, current events, literature, art, music, film, and in his own life. The book’s timing, the New York Times tells us, “is flawless.”

A Short History of Power

Simon Heffer

Taking a panoramic view from the days of Thucydides up to the present, Heffer analyses the motive forces behind the pursuit of power, and, explains in a beautiful argument why history is destined to repeat itself.

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