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The writer Hari Kunzru says "made me feel better about the Apocalypse than I have in ages" is back-with a hilarious coming-of-age love storyThe unruly undergraduates at Cambridge have a nickname for their new lecturer: Wittgenstein Jr. He's a melancholic, tormented genius who seems determined to make them grasp the very essence of philosophical thought.But Peters-a working-class student surprised to find himself among the elite-soon discovers ...

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One of the most famous living philosophers provides a philosophical analysis of the meaning of events in this "deeply interesting and provocative" book (The Guardian) > Taking us on a trip that stops at different definitions of event, Zizek addresses fundamental questions such as: are all things connected? How much are we agents of our own fates? Which conditions must be met for us to perceive something as really existing? In a world that's co...

Ray Bradbury was long the most influential sci-fi writer in the world, the poetic and visionary author of such classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and The Illustrated ManBut he also lived a fascinating life outside the parameters of sci-fi, and was a masterful raconteur of his own story, as he reveals in his wide-ranging and in-depth final interview with his acclaimed biographer, Sam Weller. After moving to Los Angeles, he beca...

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A riveting investigation of a beloved library caught in the crosshairs of real estate, power, and the people's interests-by the reporter who broke the story In a series of cover stories for The Nation magazine, journalist Scott Sherman uncovered the ways in which Wall Street logic almost took down one of New York City's most beloved and iconic institutions: the New York Public Library. In the years preceding the 2008 financial crisis, the libr...

The most extensive review of U.S. intelligence-gathering tactics in generations." -Los Angeles TimesThis is the Executive Summary of the "Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program, " a U.S. Senate investigation -- a.k.a., The Torture Report.Based on more than six million pages of classified CIA documents, this report details the establishment of a covert CIA program to secretly detain and interrog...

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The writer Hari Kunzru says "made me feel better about the Apocalypse than I have in ages" is back-with a hilarious coming-of-age love storyThe unruly undergraduates at Cambridge have a nickname for their new lecturer: Wittgenstein Jr. He's a melancholic, tormented genius who seems determined to make them grasp the very essence of philosophical thought.But Peters-a working-class student surprised to find himself among the elite-soon discovers ...

An extraordinary collection of pugnacious, charming, and revealing interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning author who defined and transformed American literature.Hemingway was not only known for his understated style, but for his public image as America's greatest author and journalist--and for the grand, expansive, adventurous way he lived his life. The prickly wit and fierce dedication to his craft that defined Hemingway's life and work shin...

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A globetrotting, time-bending, wildly entertaining masterpiece hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "Audaciously well written...the book I was raving about to my friends before I'd even finished it."Publishers Weekly raved that "with near-universal appeal . . . Seay's debut novel is a true delight, a big, beautiful cabinet of wonders that is by turns an ominous modern thriller, a supernatural mystery, and an enchanting historical advent...

A plague of rats, the end of philosophy, the cosmic chicken, and bars that don't serve Plymouth Gin-is this the Apocalypse or is it just America? "The apocalypse is imminent, " thinks W. He has devoted his life to philosophy, but he is about to be cast out from his beloved university. His friend Lars is no help at all-he's too busy fighting an infestation of rats in his flat. A drunken lecture tour through the American South proves to be anoth...

There are no dangerous thoughts for the simple reason that thinking itself is such a dangerous enterprise."
-Hannah Arendt In these interviews-including her final interview given in October 1973, in the midst of Watergate and the Yom Kippur War-Hannah Arendt discusses politics, war, protest movements, the Eichmann trial, Jewish identity, and language with the incisiveness and courage that always set her apart.

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