Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 44 No. 20
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Translated by Jordan Stump‘Wades through feminine fear, power, and insecurity like no other book I’ve encountered.’– Flavorwire 'One of France’s most exciting prose stylists and playwrights'–…
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‘This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius’ – QUESTLOVEEqual parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J…
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Seamus Deane was one of the most vital and versatile authors of our time. Small World presents an unmatched survey of Irish writing, and of writing about Irish issues, from 1798 to the present day. Elegant, polemical, and incisive, it…
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A ground-breaking new study brings us a very different picture of the Second World War, asking fundamental questions about ethical commitmentsAccounts of the Second World War usually involve tales of bravery in battle, or stoicism on the…
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The astonishing story of the English heiress who devoted her life to the IRAShe grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and on a Devon estate. She was presented to the Queen at Buckingham Palace as a debutante in 1958. She trained at Oxford as an…
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How those with the power to design technology, in the very moment of design, are allowed to imagine who is included—and who is excluded—in the future.Our world is built on an array of standards we are compelled to share.…