The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays

The Geography of the Imagination: Forty EssaysForty essays on history, art, and literature to lift your mind and spirit. Guy Davenport provides links between music and sculpture, modernist poets and classic philosophers, the past and present and pretty much everything in between. Not only had Davenport seemingly read (and often translated from the original languages) everything ever written, he also had the ability, expressed with unalloyed enthusiasm, to draw connections between how cultural

Kern proposes a genuinely decolonial

Notes of a Crocodile is a poignant masterpiece of social defiance by a singular voice in contemporary Chinese literature

and an unambitious view of technology’s potential in Silicon Valley have made the U

"A Hundred Ways to Erect a Hoarding" emerges as an exploration of boundaries

in Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari’s splendid new translations

Isak Dinesen

who struggle to come to terms with unfulfilled love

A vibrant guide to the world of literature

Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century

How to represent — in photography

and kitsch as the inevitable destiny of art in the modern era

A compelling biography of Mark Weiser