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When his widowed father – once a high court judge and always a formidable figure – drifted into vagueness if not dementia, Adam Mars-Jones took responsibility for his care. Intimately trapped in the London flat where the family had always lived, the two men entered an oblique new stage in their relationship. An entertaining reflection on families, the legal profession, and the vexed question of Welsh identity, ‘Kid Gloves’ is also necessarily a book about the writer himself and the implausible, long-delayed moment when he told his sexually conservative father about his own orientation.
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Claudia Rankine’s book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in 21st century daily life and in the media. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person’s ability to speak, perform and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essays, images, and poetry, ‘Citizen’ is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, ‘post-race’ society.
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A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.
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Woolf responds passionately to those writers – past, present – who deal honestly with the reader, who express their own variations on the ‘I am I’ – the selective vision of the finite self.
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Written over a 60-year period, this collection includes the letter the 22-year-old Vonnegut wrote home immediately upon being freed from the German POW camp; wry dispatches from Vonnegut’s years as a struggling writer; a letter to the CEO of Eagle Shirtmakers with a crackpot scheme to manufacture ‘atomic’ bow ties; angry letters of protest to local school boards that tried to ban his work; letters to his children including advice like ‘Don’t let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you’.
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James Wood offers a panoramic look at the modern novel, connecting his encyclopaedic, passionate understanding of the literary canon with an equally in-depth analysis of the most important authors writing today.
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You’ve paid money for this book, or you have family or friends who don’t mind your borrowing or who gift books like this. You are being attentive because you’re interested in what type of person this gifter thinks you are – too attentive, to them, to yourself, or too inattentive.
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David Foster Wallace was heralded by critics and fans as the voice of a generation. This book collects together 15 of Wallace’s essays, from ‘Federer Both Flesh and Not’, considered by many to be his non-fiction masterpiece, to ‘The (As it Were) Seminal Importance of Terminator 2’, his deft dissection of James Cameron’s blockbuster.
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‘Winter’ takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists and thinkers who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter.
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From one of our most powerful writers, a classic work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter.
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Siri Hustvedt’s novels are known for being as thought-provoking as they are emotionally involving. In these essays, Hustvedt shows what lies behind her fiction – an abiding curiosity about who we are and how we got that way, which has led her into the realms of psychology and neuroscience, as well as philosophy, art and literature.
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‘Gossip of a higher sort’ was how John Updike described the art of the review. Here is the last collection of his best, most dazzling gossip. Influential reviews of Toni Morrison and John le Carre and expert critique on exhibitions of Van Gogh and Schiele are included alongside previously uncollected short stories, poems and essays.
