Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 45 No. 13

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Discover one of Twentieth-Century Russia's most lauded lost classics, now in a remarakble new translation by Douglas Smith'Outstanding... A sparkling, supremely precious literary achievement' Telegraph'One of the great Russian…

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"A real discovery." – David Trotter, London Review of BooksIn its panoramic view of English life from 1919 to 1936, Two Thousand Million Man-Power is no wistful, nostalgic account of its time. Instead,…

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A compelling alternative account of the history of knowledge from the Renaissance to the EnlightenmentUntil now the history of knowledge has largely been about formal and documented accumulation, concentrating on systems, collections,…

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The voice, the dressing-gown, the cigarette in its holder, remain unmistakable. There is rarely a week when one of Private Lives, Hay Fever, and Blithe Spirit is not in production somewhere in the world. Phrases from Noel Coward's songs -…

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An exciting narrative and visual history of the artist’s studio, examining the myth and reality of the creative space from early times to todayThe artist’s workplace has always been an imaginary as well as an actual location, an…

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A wide-ranging political biography of diplomat, Nobel prize winner, and civil rights leader Ralph Bunche.A legendary diplomat, scholar, and civil rights leader, Ralph Bunche was one of the most prominent Black Americans of the twentieth…

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Translated by Paco Brito NúñezIn Marx's Literary Style, the Venezuelan poet and philosopher Ludovico Silva argues that much of the confusion around Marx's work results from a failure to understand his literary mode of…

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Selected as a Best Book of 2023 by the Guardian, Irish Times, Harper's Bazaar, Esquire and i-DThe author of the Booker-shortlisted Real Life returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women…

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Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery – Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman’s long awaited first original book, a kaleidoscopic study of the late West German film…

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A New Yorker Book of the YearAbout one woman’s fine, hard life at the racetrack, Kick the Latch – with its ruthless concision and artful mysteries – is lightning in a bottleKathryn…