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Roughing It

High Albania

by Edith Durham

The Passionate Nomad: The Diary of Isabelle Eberhardt

by Isabelle Eberhardt

My Journey to Lhasa

by Alexandra David-Neel


An Artist’s Artist

Chekhov: A Spirit Set Free

by V.S. Pritchett


Beatlephobia

The Lives of John Lennon

by Albert Goldman

John Lennon, My Brother

by Julia Baird and Geoffrey Giuliano, foreword by Paul McCartney

Imagine: John Lennon

written and edited by Andrew Solt and Sam Egan, foreword by Yoko Ono, preface by David L. Wolper

Imagine: John Lennon

a film directed by Andrew Solt

Yesterday: The Unauthorized Biography of Paul McCartney

by Chet Flippo

The Lennon Companion: Twenty-five Years of Comment

edited by Elizabeth Thomson, edited by David Gutman

Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary

by Tim Riley

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The Eyewitness Style

Venetian Narrative Painting in the Age of Carpaccio

by Patricia Fortini Brown


The Poet in Limbo

Conrad Aiken: Poet of White Horse Vale

by Edward Butscher


City Lights

Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and the Exile Experience in Paris, 1830–1848

by Lloyd S. Kramer

Restoration and Reaction, 1815–1848

by André Jardin and André-Jean Tudesq, translated by Elborg Forster


Art of Cruelty

Hell Screen, Cogwheels, A Fool's Life

by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, translated by Takashi Kojima and Cid Corman and Will Petersen, with a foreword by Jorge Luis Borges, an introduction by Kazuya Sakai

Childhood Years: A Memoir

by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, translated by Paul McCarthy


In the Dawn’s Early Light

The First Salute

by Barbara W. Tuchman


The Defoe File

The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe

by P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens


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