Collection of essays, on Japan, the West, and India. an important comparison by India's Nobel Prize Winner.

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How are our memories, our narratives, and our intelligence interrelated? What can artificial intelligence and narratology say to each oth...

Since its publication in 1987, "Being Peace" has become a classic of contemporary religious literature. In his simple and readable style,...

Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established it...

We are on the wrong track Seventy percent of Americans (and counting) think so. The inflation-adjusted wage of a US worker today is less...

The extraordinary story of the solving of a puzzle that has confounded mathematicians since the 17th century. The solution of Fermat’s La...

From the bestselling author of Linchpin, Tribes, and The Dip comes an elegant little book that will inspire artists, writers, and entrep...

Jorge Luis Borge's Fictions introduced an entirely new voice into world literature. It is here we find the astonishing accounts of Funes,...

The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's g...

As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth acros...

From bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreement In Let...