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A lively and thorough exploration of the aesthetic, metaphysical, ethical, political, and legal implications of Taylor Swift's ongoing project of re-recording her first six studio albums.
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Brandon Taylor
The author of the Booker-shortlisted Real Life returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads
In a university town, a circle of young…
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David Torevell, Brandon Schneeberger, Luke Taylor
This pioneering study investigates the connection between Shakespeare and Catholic education. Its authors contend that Shakespeare's plays explore Catholic understandings of human life in ways that remain relevant for Catholic…
Edith Wharton
Mrs. Pauline Manford is a busy woman, as any upstanding New York society lady should be.
To manage a modern household is to hold the family together, staying on trend…
George Gissing
When their father's death leaves them with no money and a dim future, the Madden sisters, Alice, Virginia, and Monica, must negotiate the gender roles and class constraints of 1890s…
Sarah Orne Jewett
A nameless writer has come to Dunnet Landing, a small town on the coast of Maine, for the summer in order to finish her manuscript.
Compared to the hectic pace…
Victor Hugo
"No character was ever thrown into such strange relief as Gilliatt... here, indeed, the true position of man in the universe." -Robert Louis Stevenson
The Toilers of the Sea tells…
The highly-anticipated new novel by the Booker-shortlisted author Brandon Taylor. An exploration of sex, love, identity and politics
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A hotly charged new work of fiction from the Booker Prize shortlisted author of Real Life.
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A fascinating journey through Western art from the 1910s to the 1960s, charting how artists wrestled with the headlong changes of a turbulent and conflict-ridden world
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"Erudite, intimate, hilarious, poignant . . . A…
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An elegant, brutal and startlingly intimate novel from an electric new voice. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction 2020.
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Brandon Taylor,Sheretta Taylor
Tokens of Love explores the Bible’s most inspiring and devastating love stories to equip readers with insightful, practical lessons for healthy, happy, and holy relationships. This devotional will encourage you…
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Mavis Gallant
An elegant, melancholic novella about memory, family and the meaning of home.This is the tale of the fractured family life of Bonnie McCarthy, an American divorcee, and her daughter, Flor.
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Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
A novel about belonging, alienation, and the exquisite pleasure and pain of girlhood, But the Girl is a wry and razor-sharp coming-of-age novel for readers of The Idiot by Elif…
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Jolie Taylor
40 fun poems that explore big feelings and emotions. This whimsical journey through verse and illustrations can help children recognize and understand their big emotions. From the imaginative minds of…
Alan Taylor
Brandon and the Pumpkin of Pearls is a story about a young boy who is too small to work on the family farm after his father is sent away to…
The study of the fundamental and general questions about values, existence, knowledge, reason, mind and language is referred to as philosophy. The methods in philosophy include critical discussion, rational argument…
Philosophy deals with the study of fundamental and general questions regarding values, mind, existence, reason, knowledge and language. Some of the major categories of philosophy are epistemology, metaphysics, value theory…
Shows how key metaphors of Freudian and Kleinian psychoanalysis - splitting, projection, sublimation, identification, the schizoid and reparative mechanisms - as well as Lacan’s concepts of the stade du mirroir…
"In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a social circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection as they try to figure out what they want…
During a volatile year of self-discovery in the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, three friends preparing for an uncertain future head to a cabin to bid goodbye to…
In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a social circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection as they try to figure out what they want…
A hotly charged new work of fiction from the BookerPrize shortlisted author of Real Life.
When Constructivism emerged shortly after the Russian Revolution, its central principles concerned structure and efficiency in the work of art and the nature and properties of materials. In this book…
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A novel about startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among a group of friends in a small university town.
Tate Modern Exhibition, 20 APRIL - 3 SEPTEMBER 2023 Although they never met, Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian shared a deep dynamic connection to the natural world and began…
J M Taylor
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Brandon Taylor Erics
Validation equals survival. This one point summarizes what this book is about. It is an attempt to put into context the struggle that has occurred within and outside of the…
Henry James
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy her…
Robin Pecknold
There is something quite moving about seeing these fifty-five songs collected and assembled this way. Themes of family, friendship, love, destiny, loss, nature, and honest living bridge all of the…
Brandon T Mayes
Joann and Jane are two little girls who have a problem! Their rooms are a mess! Who did it? Was it Dad, Mom, or Grandpa? Or could it be someone…
Joann and Jane are two little girls who have a problem! Their rooms are a mess! Who did it?! Was it Dad, Mom, or Grandpa? Or could it be someone…
Dr Brandon Taylor (Professor Emeritus of History of Art, University of Southampton, UK)
What is form in modern art? How could a work of art achieve its organic life in a world increasingly dominated by mechanism, by new technology? In this new book…
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Taylor St Sauvage Brandon, Niko Zinovii
Meow is a story (in screenplay format) about a woman who is raising her two children alone. Although recognizing her children's need for a father and her need for romance…
More concrete: the second volume on the collection, with each of its new aquisitions
Postdramatic theatre is an essential category of performance that challenges classical elements of drama, including the centrality of plot and character. Tracking key developments in contemporary European and North American…
Constellations - On the Relationship between Color and Space
From today's perspective, Leon Polk Smith's dynamic, geometric abstractions can be understood as a missing link in art history. His work…
Martin Luther King’s legacy for today’s activists, fifty years after his death.
Caleb Azumah Nelson,Victoria Adukwei Bulley,Emily Berry,Brandon Taylor
The White Review No. 29 features interviews with poet Fanny Howe, novelist and memoirist Scholastique Mukasonga and artist Ingrid Pollard, who also provides the issue’s cover. We present new fiction…
