A wide-ranging collection of essays by one of America's most perceptive critics of popular and literary cultureFrom one of America’s most insightful critics comes a substantial collection of essays th
“Lush and uncensored” essays (Village Voice) on spanking during sex, shopping, Martin Scorcese, Israel, breast reduction, Gary Gilmore, depression, and other matters, by “one of the
A gifted and audacious writer confronts her lifelong battle with depression and her search for releaseThis Close to Happy is the rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from cli
A wide-ranging collection of essays by one of America's most perceptive critics of popular and literary cultureFrom one of America's most insightful and independent-minded critics comes a remarkable n
"Daphne Merkin meets the formidable challenge of describing female lust and romantic obsession with all the desired daring, candor, and skill. The result is a bracingly honest, keenly insightful, utte
A gifted and audacious writer confronts her lifelong battle with depression and her search for releaseThis Close to Happy is the rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from cli
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics?series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarsh
A naked man is found dead on the mudflats near an English seaside town. If it is a simple case of drowning, what are the whiplash marks on the man's back? To one young policeman, it looks like a puni
Our unnamed narrator is the mother of countless children, also nameless, from several marriages, and the wife of the successful screenwriter Jake Armitage. The Armitages are building a glass tower in
Lush with imagery, this is the story of three generations of Brangwen women living during the decline of English rural life. Banned upon publication, it explores the most taboo subjects of its time: m
This richly illustrated book features some of today’s brightest visionaries working in fashion photography, interpreting Bottega Veneta’s modernist aesthetic and material elegance. In 2005
