Bernardine Evaristo is the winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and the first black woman to receive this highest literary honor in the English language. Girl, Woman, Other is a portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving, hopeful story of an interconnected group of Black British women that paints a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and looks back to the legacy of Britain’s colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean. The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her Black lesbian identity; her old friend Shirley is a teacher, jaded after decades of work in London’s funding-deprived schools; Carole, one of Shirley’s former students, is a successful investment banker; Carole’s mother Bummi works as a cleaner and worries about her daughter’s lack of rootedness despite her obvious achievements. From a nonbinary social media influencer to a 93-year-old woman living on a farm in Northern England, these unforgettable characters also intersect in shared aspects of their identities, from age to race to sexuality to class.

An enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a spectacularly iconoclastic take on the story of Ancient Greece by a rising star in archaeology Two strangers meet in a trapped elevator. One is an archaeologist, the other isn’t. A simple question, ‘What do you do?’, becomes the springboard for a dialogue that weaves a fascinating tale… In How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator, acclaimed archaeologist Theodore Papakostas takes the reader on a spectacularly iconoclastic and hugely engrossing journey through Ancient Greece, from its beginnings in prehistory to its end. Marvelling at the exalted moments in Ancient Greek history as well as the more mundane, Papakostas introduces the reader to countless fascinating stories about the cradle of western civilization – many of which upend received wisdom about the empire as well as about archaeology itself. Along the way, he settles questions such What did a Minoan princess pack for a trip to Egypt? How did a Mycenaean public servant kill time when he was bored? How did a raunchy dance lead to the birth of Democracy? Why did Heraclitus suggest that Homer should be slapped? Why are the Cyclades called the Cyclades? A whistle-stop tour through three hundred years of Greek history, How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator is an unforgettable love letter to the treasures we’ve inherited from the ancient world, as well as to those who have helped us unearth them.

Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race.

Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy. So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey. If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. In the myths and legends that are retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox's superb Introduction and textual commentary provide new insights and background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles' translation. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the public at large, and to captivate a new generation of Homer's students. -- Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, presents us with Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem in a stunning new modern-verse translation.

"Je suis philosophe, je m'intéresse aux rapports entre les femmes et les hommes : après un premier livre sur la soumission des femmes aux hommes, j'ai écrit un ouvrage sur le consentement et les injustices de genre dans la sexualité hétérosexuelle. Je suis aussi une femme de bientôt quarante ans, qui voudrait pouvoir exister dans le monde sans s'inquiéter sans cesse des violences sexistes et sexuelles dont mes amies, mes filles ou moi pourrions être victimes. J'ai vu les changements apportés par le mouvement #MeToo, je vois le backlash masculiniste qui s'efforce de renvoyer les femmes à leur position de deuxième sexe. Lorsque je découvre les crimes commis sur Gisèle Pelicot, je sais que se condensent dans cette histoire toutes les questions philosophiques qui sont les miennes. J'hésite à aller au procès de Mazan. Puis je me rends à l'évidence : il me faut écrire ce procès et l'expérience que j'en fais, comme philosophe et comme femme. Et tenter de répondre à cette question qui me hante : peut-on vivre avec les hommes ?"

Pourquoi le terme « féministe » est-il librement approprié à la fois par l’extrême droite, la gauche, et le capitalisme ? Dans un contexte, où les notions de féminisme et d’égalité sont vidées de leur sens hier radical, que peut signifier être féministe aujourd’hui? Quels sont les combats à mener? Comment mettre au cœur des luttes des femmes l’antiracisme, l’anticapitalisme et l’anti-impérialisme? Françoise Vergès s’attache d’abord à interroger les deux récits médiatiques qui dominent l’histoire du mouvement des femmes des années 1970 en France, l’un qui parle d’un mouvement qui aurait mené à une reconnaissance de la place des femmes françaises dans la république avec ses valeurs de laïcité et d’égalité, l’autre qui dénonce un mouvement qui aurait été exclusivement « blanc » et essentiellement intéressé par la liberté sexuelle. Reconnaissant une profonde asymétrie entre ces deux récits, Françoise Vergès questionne cependant les causes de l’effacement de féminismes radicaux et anticoloniaux, antiracistes et anti-impérialistes des années 1970. Il faut en effet analyser comment le féminisme étatique contribua à la pacification du mouvement radical en faisant des discriminations et de la loi l’objectif des luttes; comment il transforma le contrôle des naissances dans le Sud global ou auprès des femmes pauvres et immigrées et l’intégration des femmes racisées dans le monde du travail globalisé en politiques de la sororité. Il a su faire de l’intégration des femmes dans le monde du travail et dans celui de l’éducation la mesure du progrès des gouvernements et des institutions internationales. Le féminisme carcéro-punitif a pris peu à peu une place majeure, donnant au tribunal et à la police le rôle de protéger les femmes des discriminations et des abus, ignorant l’analyse sociale et politique. Violences domestiques et sexuelles sont devenus le fait d’individus isolés, enfermés dans une pathologie de masculinités arriérées et n’ont plus été analysées comme faits sociaux. En faisant disparaître le radicalisme des mouvements de femmes des années 1970 qui furent portés par l’énergie des grandes luttes anti-impérialistes et antiracistes pour passer à un féminisme de la pacification, c’est le désir de faire éclater les structures qui est effacé. Dans un deuxième temps, à travers une lecture critique de la métaphore de "vagues", l’auteure propose une temporalité et une spatialité des luttes des femmes pour la justice et la liberté, contre le racisme et pour l’égalité qui excède celles du cadre national. En partant des luttes des femmes esclavagisées et colonisées, puis des luttes des femmes des sociétés postcoloniales françaises, elle montre l’internationalisme des luttes. Puis, partant des grèves de ces dernières années de femmes ouvrières racisées qui font le ménage dans les hôtels ou nettoient les gares, Françoise Vergès revient sur les analyses féministes autour de la question du travail dit « féminin » – le travail de soin et de nettoyage. Elle propose de mettre au cœur d’un féminisme politique et révolutionnaire ce travail dans ses dimensions de classe et de race. Enfin, Françoise Vergès fait une analyse critique des politiques gouvernementales actuelles – la parité et l’inégalité – et, s’appuyant sur les nombreux exemples d’offensive féministe à travers le monde, elle suggère des pistes d’action et des axes de recherche pour renforcer un féminisme politique et révolutionnaire.

On n'est jamais content de ses cheveux : Rose, qui a les cheveux crépus, rêve de les avoir lisses. Pour se conformer aux normes sociales, elle sera prête à tout, quitte à gommer son identité métissée. Entre enquête de société et récit de vie, une BD riche et touchante qui parle de sexisme, de racisme, d'héritage et d'acceptation de soi.

"Je suis philosophe, je m'intéresse aux rapports entre les femmes et les hommes : après un premier livre sur la soumission des femmes aux hommes, j'ai écrit un ouvrage sur le consentement et les injustices de genre dans la sexualité hétérosexuelle. Je suis aussi une femme de bientôt quarante ans, qui voudrait pouvoir exister dans le monde sans s'inquiéter sans cesse des violences sexistes et sexuelles dont mes amies, mes filles ou moi pourrions être victimes. J'ai vu les changements apportés par le mouvement #MeToo, je vois le backlash masculiniste qui s'efforce de renvoyer les femmes à leur position de deuxième sexe. Lorsque je découvre les crimes commis sur Gisèle Pelicot, je sais que se condensent dans cette histoire toutes les questions philosophiques qui sont les miennes. J'hésite à aller au procès de Mazan. Puis je me rends à l'évidence : il me faut écrire ce procès et l'expérience que j'en fais, comme philosophe et comme femme. Et tenter de répondre à cette question qui me hante : peut-on vivre avec les hommes ?"

Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New Worldd likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites. "Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune

Deep Salt Water is a stirring memoir about loss and abortion, expressed through the layering of imagery from the ocean. In detail at once sensual and sophisticated, Apostolides unfurls the emotional experience of a love affair and unwanted pregnancy, the abortion itself, and her reconnection with the man seventeen years later--a rekindling of love which stimulates this gentle attempt to come to terms with the abortion and its consequences. Moving from a place of intense intimacy to an outward focus that engages with the broader world, Deep Salt Water discusses abortion in all its complexity, rejecting polarizing rhetoric in favour of the unfathomable truths that women hold in their bodies. With 9 full colour plates of mixed media collage by Catherine Mellinger. Praise for Deep Salt Water "...an intoxicating, accretive reading experience, shot through with recognizable truth and a clever use of the splice of precision and interruption to deliver them." --Anakana Schofield " Deep Salt Water is intimate and sensual, tidal and saline--how can a book be tidal and saline? These words make sense within the environment of the book. Apostolides's language is not of pristine nature but of the anthropocene, our current geologic age of bleached coral and oceans choking on plastics. In light of man-made climate catastrophe, learning this language takes on added urgency." --Jade Colbert, The Globe & Mail

A story of love in the depression, of two young people driven into strange channels by present conditions. ""The Affair"" which was supposed to be glamorous, turns out badly for Kay. Independent, not wishing marriage with Jimmy, who is jobless, she manages to have an abortion, and eventually they admit that love has grown cold and they go their separate ways. The characters are human enough -- the situation plausible -- but there is a coldness in the presentation that divorces one's sympathy. Further research along the lines of Bad Girl and Nobody Starves -- in the white collar class of the unemployed. A bit anti-social for public libraries and for the conservative market.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present. Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.

Taking up where Invitation to the Waltz left off, The Weather in the Streets shows us Olivia Curtis ten years older, a failed marriage behind her, thinner, sadder, and apprently not much wiser. A chance encounter on a train with a man who enchanted her as a teenager leads to a forbidden love affair and a new world of secret meetings, brief phone calls, and snatched liaisons in anonymous hotel rooms. Years ahead of its time when first published, this subtle and powerful novel shocked even the most stalwart Lehmann fans with its searing honesty and passionate portrayal of clandestine love.

A powerfully resonant and provocative novel from American master and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates. In this striking, enormously affecting novel, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families. Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God's will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town while Augustus Voorhees, the idealistic doctor who is killed, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief. In her moving, insightful portrait, Joyce Carol Oates fully inhabits the perspectives of two interwoven families whose destinies are defined by their warring convictions and squarely-but with great empathy-confronts an intractable, abiding rift in American society. A Book of American Martyrs is a stunning, timely depiction of an issue hotly debated on a national stage but which makes itself felt most lastingly in communities torn apart by violence and hatred.

Set in northwest London, Zadie Smith’s brilliant tragicomic novel follows four locals—Leah, Natalie, Felix, and Nathan—as they try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood. In private houses and public parks, at work and at play, these Londoners inhabit a complicated place, as beautiful as it is brutal, where the thoroughfares hide the back alleys and taking the high road can sometimes lead you to a dead end. Depicting the modern urban zone—familiar to city-dwellers everywhere—NW is a quietly devastating novel of encounters, mercurial and vital, like the city itself.