"Since it is the case that you are now just beginning that journey that I have for the most part as you see completed, that is, the one through mortal life, and loving you so very much as I do, I have proposed to myself – as one who has been many pla...

Not for sale in Estonia! If Honore de Balzac's Treatise on Elegant Living addressed one crucial pillar of modernity – the "mode" itself, fashion – his "Physiology of the Employee" examines another equally potent cornerstone to the modern era: burea...

From modest beginnings in 1988, when it was a listings newsletter, "Poetry London" has developed into one of the UK's leading poetry magazines. Do not be mislead by its name: "Poetry London" has the same relation to London as "The New Yorker" has to...

Eighteenth-century British culture is often seen as polite and sentimental – the product of an emerging middle class. Simon Dickie contests these assumptions in "Cruelty and Laughter", a wildly enjoyable but shocking plunge into the forgotten comic l...

Kiki Dimoula's poetry – the most praised and prized in contemporary Greek literature – is a paradox, both mysteriously intricate and widely popular. Her magic lens defamiliarizes all that is familiar, compressing distances between far-flung realms, c...

Sergio De La Pava's "A Naked Singularity" was one of the most highly praised debut novels in decades".The Wall Street Journal" called it "a propulsive, mind-bending experience", and named it one of the ten best books of the year. The "Toronto Star" d...

This is a book about remoteness: a memoir of places observed in solitude, of the texture of life through the quiet course of the seasons in the far north of Scotland. It is a book grounded in the singularity of one place – a house in northern Aberdee...

"I should never ask / directions to my childhood", writes Fred D'Aguiar: there is no way back home. "The Rose of Toulouse" is a book of geographies tracing the various places the poet has lived, their histories, and his own history as he travels away...

The world as we know it is over. Man's reign on earth has come to an end, and the reign of the animals has begun. The indifferently wise Cyrus Golden the Lion rules the three-city state that is now what remains of Europe. Yet, other forces stir while...

Milo De Angelis, born in 1951, is one of the most important living Italian poets. With this volume, Susan Stewart andPatrizio Ceccagnoli bring to English readers for the first time a facing-page edition of his most recent work: his book-length elegy,...