Explores not only Amis's literary works but his outspoken personality, his praise for Thatcherism, and his devotion to whiskey A man who considered boredom the worst offense in fiction and nearly the worst offense in life, British novelist Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) is wrought larger than life in Eri...

Collects the letters of the British novelist to individuals including Philip Larkin, Victor Gollancz, Elizabeth Jane Howard, and Brian Aldiss. "Beautifully organized and annotated...Some of the best of Amis, it turns out, is in his letters." -- The New York Times Book Review KINGSLEY AMIS was born ...

Amor, pasión, celos... muerte. El perspicaz detective Philip Marlowe debe tirar del hilo de una maraña seria y salvaje. En La dama del lago (1943), la cuarta novela de Raymond Chandler, el detective Philip Marlowe investiga la desaparición de dos mujeres: Crystal Kingsley, esposa de un rico emp...

'A brilliant biography - John Sutherland has brought Monica Jones to life as she deserves.' Claire Tomalin ' I couldn't put it down. Vivid and penetrating, it's a brilliant portrait of a confounding, complex woman.' Cressida Connolly Monica Jones was Philip Larkin's partner for more than four d...

BOOKER PRIZE–WINNING AUTHOR Set in a world in which the Reformation failed, this award-winning science fiction novel is “one of the best . . . alternate-worlds novels in existence” (Philip K. Dick). In Kingsley Amis’s virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976, but the modern world i...

The owner of a haunted country inn contends with death, fatherhood, and romantic woes in this humorous, “rattling good ghost story” from a Booker Prize–winning author ( The New York Times ) Maurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death. As he says, “I honestly can’t se...

Philip Kingsley was born privileged. He was intelligent and charismatic. He could have led a life of luxury but he saw the coming crisis and wanted to save us from ourselves. Do you know what’s over the horizon? The future is tomorrow. A crisis is coming and we have no plan. We have no leader. Te...

Drawing on new paradigms and evidence-based discoveries in neuroscience, narrative psychology, and creativity theory, this text explores the beneficial role of expressive arts within a recovery perspective. A framework of practice principles for the visual arts, creative writing, music, drama, dance...

LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP! Shrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine is your survival guide through the explosive minefields and incoming missile salvos in pulse-pounding tales of BattleMech combat on the battlefields of the 31st century and beyond! Facing a technologically superior opponent, two m...

“Ebullient entertainment. ” — Time A hotshot reporter is dead. He'd gone to take a look-see at “Miami North”—little Wheaton, Massachusetts—the biggest cocaine distribution center above the Mason-Dixon line. Did the kid die for getting too close to the truth . . . or to a sweet lad...

Martin Amis' life could itself provide the formula for an enthralling work of fiction. Martin Amis' life could itself provide the formula for an enthralling work of fiction. Son of one of the most popular and best-loved novelists of the post-war era, he has forged a groundbreaking manner of writin...

An NYRB Classics Original Robert Sheckley was an eccentric master of the American  short story, and his tales, whether set in dystopic city­scapes, ultramodern advertising agencies, or aboard spaceships lighting out for hostile planets, are among the most startlingly original of the twentieth cen...

Developer Trays is master photography printer John Cyr's tribute to the craft and art he has spent his career perfecting. As sure as the age of silver has come to an end, there remain few but extraordinary and dedicated darkroom practitioners such as Cyr who continue to work with chemistry and proc...

The Movement was the preeminent poetical grouping of post-war Britain. 'We shall have stamped our taste on the age between us in the end', boasted its most important poet, Philip Larkin, of his and Kingsley Amis's influence. That Larkin's boast proved well-founded even those who deplored Movement ta...

Before his birth, omens foretold that Alexander, son of the warrior-king Philip of Macedonia, was destined for greatness. From boyhood, the prince was trained by the finest scholars and mightiest soldiers to attain extraordinary strength of body and spirit. A descendant of Heracles and Achilles, Ale...

The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler is a hard-boiled detective novel featuring Philip Marlowe, Chandler's iconic private investigator. The story begins when Marlowe is hired by a wealthy man named Derace Kingsley to find his missing wife, Mrs. Mildred Kingsley. The case seems straightforward, ...

With a new foreword by Riley Sager, a thrilling mystery from the Queen of Suspense about a journalist who uncovers political schemes and revisits hidden secrets from the past. I told you not to come… Slipped under the door of her Georgetown home, the note was an ominous reminder of Pat Traym...

Berlin, 1948. Still occupied by the four Allied powers and largely in ruins, the city has become the cockpit of a new Cold War. The legacies of the war have become entangled in the new Soviet-American conflict, creating a world of bizarre and fleeting loyalties—a paradise for spies. As spring unfo...

Berlin, 1948. Still occupied by the four Allied powers and largely in ruins, the city has become the cockpit of a new Cold War. The legacies of the war have become entangled in the new Soviet-American conflict, creating a world of bizarre and fleeting loyalties—a paradise for spies. As spring unfo...

Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time. Liberties, is a collection of the most significant writers today as well as launching the voices of tomorrow. In this issue of Liberties : Cynthia Ozick on the p...