As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, Booker Prize-winning author John Berger is a
writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he ...
A collection of classic, yet shockingly contemporary, short stories set in the vibrant world of
mid-century Bombay, from one of India’s greatest writers.Arriving in 1930s Bombay, Saadat Hasan Manto discovered a city like no other. A metropolis for all, and ...
A vacationing English couple find more than they bargained for, in this unsettling novel from
the Booker Prize-winning author of Atonement. Visiting an unnamed city, Mary and Colin attract the interest of Robert, a charismatic older man with a story to ...
A Vintage Shorts selection.In this chapter from his classic instructive handbook, The Art of Fiction, John
Gardner illustrates the principles and techniques of good writing. Poor diction, confusing clauses, undue sentimentality and mannerism—these are pitfalls that plague experienced writers as well ...
Booker Prize-winning author John Berger, one of the most widely admired writers of our time,
returns us to the captivating play and narrative allure of his previous novels–G. and Pig Earth among them–with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his ...
In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita
Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a ...
Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and
myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the ...
Time Magazine's Best Book of the YearBooker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty
family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, ...