178 results for '"LIVY"'

"A probing critique of a modern public sphere that overwhelms the private realm . . . Pressly offers a unique vision of what can be gained by stepping back from the outside world, and the screens...

'I have no secrets; my unhappiness is the story of my entire life.' A key figure in the literary world of post-Revolutionary Paris, Claire de Duras was a writer of exceptional talent, admired by...

Winner of the 2017 Dublin International Literary Award Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 "Who is this solitary young woman on the top floor of a luxury building in Luanda,...

In this book, Dr David Kraft surveys and evaluates Messiaen's use of birdsong and formulates a chronological and critical taxonomy of his music, covering the species involved and his evolving methods...

Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers...

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live...

In this important new work, Kevin Madigan studies the development and union of scholastic, apocalyptic, and Franciscan interpretations of the Gospel of Matthew from 1150 to 1350. These...

Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the...

The central purpose of this book is to offer an account of crucial intellectual challenges to traditional British theology, challenges that provoked wide-ranging discussions and decisively shaped...

A New York Times Notable, The New Yorker, Washington Post, NPR, Guardian, Esquire, and Bustle Best Book of 2018 “Love may not be original, but this funny, fervent novel is.”—The New Yorker It’s the...

"One of the finest writers of the new nonfiction" (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in our tumultuous modern era. In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and...

"Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century.The body is a source of pleasure...

Art, power, desire, and illusion collide in a hypnotic new novel from Olivia Laing, set in the months leading up to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975. It is September 1974. Two men meet in...

In the age of Trump and Brexit, every crisis is instantly overridden by the next. The turbulent political weather of the twenty- first century generates anxiety and makes it difficult to know how to...

Passionate readers both, Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain courted through books, spelling out their expectations through literary references as they corresponded during their frequent separations...

L'alternance a rapproché les français, la cohabitation ressuscité François Mitterrand, la présidentielle divisé la droite, perdu le PC, entretenu Le Pen. La France a changé : quatre électeurs sur...

Au cours de la journée dramatique du 10 juillet 1940, députés et sénateurs, réunis au Grand Casino de Vichy, votent les pleins pouvoirs au maréchal Pétain. Seulement quatre-vingts parlementaires les...