Arts, Literature and Humanities

The moving yet humorous story of a girl struggling to care for herself and others in post-communist Slovakia. Emotionally neglected by her immature...

A novel of the invasion and occupation of Egypt by Napoleonic France as seen through the eyes of a young Egyptian. The Napoleonic-era French invasi...

What does it take to succeed as a queer teenage Eastern European sex worker in the 1990s? Eleven inches and a ruthless attitude. Western Europe, s...

Holly Lawford-Smith argues that gender is not something to be embraced and celebrated, but a system of oppression which should be rejected. She int...

A heart-wrenching story about love, loss, sex, the friendship between women, and the universal struggle to come to terms with death. Just before t...

A haunting, multivocal novel full of stories of the lives of women of African descent. Four women speak. They speak to the same man, who is not the...

A powerful novel of a young man living between Muslim and Christian worlds amid the Lebanese Civil War. Firefly paints a searing portrait of the ci...

The Endless Siege is an ethnographic study of the Vidya Bharati chain of schools in India which are run by a Hindu nationalist organization called ...

A beautifully crafted novel set in the late 1960s and 1970s Italy, a tempestuous period that shaped the lives of generations to come in many countr...

An inventive collection of stories by one of the most prominent and acclaimed writers in Hungary today. The Birth of Emma K., a collection of twelv...

‘Lower-caste’ thinkers made a crucial intervention in the conceptualization of modern India by claiming that there could hardly be any discussion o...

Gujarat is one of the leading industrially developed states of the Indian Union. Also known as a laboratory of Hindutva in contemporary Indian poli...

The myth of Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) focuses on his early years: how the great enfant terrible tore through the nineteenthcentury literary scene ...

The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature provides readers with a comprehensive reassessment of the value of Humanism in an intellectual l...

An intellectually stimulating yet accessible collection of short vignettes on Russia and Germany by Alexander Kluge. Not just in light of a conte...

Culture and Circulation takes an innovative approach to early modern Indian literature. The authors foreground the complex hybridity of literary ge...

The ten stories in this collection cover different spaces and unravel many layers that Imayam so masterfully and effortlessly weaves into his narra...

This is the second volume from the authors (along with several others) of Gauging and Engaging Deviance, which is positioned between the ideas of d...

The idea of doing something to redeem the neglected village came to Rabindranath Tagore when he first went to live in his family’s agricultural est...

The narrator at the beginning of this account wonders about one of the most fabulous countries on earth, a country often torn by extremes, by the m...

One of South Africa’s best-known writers during the apartheid era, Alex La Guma was a lifelong activist and a member of the South African Communist...

Iridescent Skin is the first of its kind multispecies ethnography on humans and white sharks, entangled through the practice of cage diving at the ...

Scenography is the art of ‘writing the stage space’—a visual journey of unmaking and remaking the text on a theatre space, a language of the specta...

• Explores the history of chain-stitch embroidery in India and the stitch-craft of the Mochi or shoemaker community in Gujarat • Documents the pre...

Dalit stories translated fro the Telugu. Stories born out of oppression, discrimination,happiness, sorrow, insults. Stories that expose the lives o...

This complete guide to the selection of materials for interiors has been updated to reflect the most recent materials on the market and contemporar...

From the philosophy of Aristotle and Confucius, to Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, to the paintings of Raphael, Botticelli and many more, fascina...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by scepticism, relativism, hypocris...

This screenplay by Swiss playwright and novelist Max frisch was developed from an episode in his 1964 novel gantenbein, or a wilderness of mirrors....

What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something...

Refugees and other forced migrants are one of the great contemporary challenges the world is confronting. Throughout the world people leave their h...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The world teems with different kinds of music - traditional, folk, classical, jazz, rock, pop...

With over 520 million followers, Buddhism is now the world's fourth largest religion. Over the last seventy years or so there has been a growing in...

In Sophia Naz's poems, one has the sense of being out in the open-of our beings fermenting as we read, of looking back from time to time, to check ...

A defence of the importance of poetry that studies one of the greatest poets of the English tradition: John Milton. The Literary Agenda is a serie...

Religion plays a central role in human experience. Billions of people around the world practice a faith and act in accordance with it. Religion sha...

Contemporary art has never been so popular - but the art world is changing. In a landscape of increasing globalization there is growing interest in...

“Of course I had to end up here.” over ten rainy nights, Thomas, an ex-bargeman who used to be skipper of his own boat, walks the muddy fields of t...

Klaus Merz is one of the most prominent, prolific, and versatile Swiss writers working today. Celebrated as a master of concise, condensed sentence...

Set in a Malabar village of Christian settlers, The Book of Passing Shadows, translated from the Malayalam original Aayusinte Pusthakam, tells the ...

Two plays about the legal battle to decriminalize homosexuality in India. On September 6, 2018, a decades-long battle to decriminalize queer intim...

WHAT ARE THE DEFINING ELEMENTS OF SHORT FICTION BY CONTEMPORARY WOMEN WRITERS? HOW DO THEY NAVIGATE THE WORLD AROUND THEM TO CREATE LITERATURE? Th...

Set in Calcutta in the immediate aftermath of the Partition, Ritwik Ghatak’s Nagarik (released in 1977 after Ghatak’s death in 1976) chronicles the...

Udaipur, located in eastern Rajasthan State of India, was founded as the capital of erstwhile Mewar kingdom in the 16th century. It is a unique and...