Continuing Text's re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works with stylish new covers, Slow Man is a modern classic by the great Nobel Prize winner accompanied by an introduction from…

Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown. Her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world - a private consciousness obliged to…

In spectacularly powerful and lucid prose, Coetzee uses all his formidable skills to engage with a post-apartheid culture in unexpected and revealing ways. This examination into the sexual and politcal…

Jonathan Balcombe’s follow-up to his successful first book, Pleasurable Kingdom, is an eloquent and scientifically informed account, which shatters the myth that animals eat and reproduce mindlessly and shows how…

When his induction into the army is delayed, Joseph finds himself facing a year of idleness. This journal presents an account of his restless wanderings through Chicago’s streets, his musings…

Participating in the reframing of literary studies, Cosmopolitan Fictions identifies, as cosmopolitan fiction , a genre of global literature that investigates the ethics and politics of complex and multiple belonging.

Belgian artist Berlinde de Bruyckere (b 1964) is a star of the contemporary art world whose innovative practice focuses on sculpture. This book includes de Bruyckere’s first sculptures from the…