In Patagonia

Bruce Chatwin

IN PATAGONIA is a Quest or a Wonder Voyage. It is about wandering and exile. Bruce Chatwin travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and, as he goes along, describes his encounters with other people whose stories delay him on the road....

One Hundred Years of Solitude: Popular Penguins

Gabriel Garcia Márquez

'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.' ..... Gabriel García Márquez has been one of the undisputed literary giants of the past century; his stories are vivid, energetic, tender and unfor...

On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

Maggie Nelson

Now in paperback, an enduring work of criticism from one of the most important writers of our time.   So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels.  Does it remain key to autonomy, j...