Trenchant, expansive essays on the cultural consequences of ongoing, all-permeating technological innovationIn 1994, Sven Birkerts published The Gutenberg Elegies, his celebrated rallying cry to resis
A series of autobiographical pieces by the master of reflection and slow timeThroughout his life, Sven Birkerts, one of the country’s foremost literary critics, has carved out time for himself—to walk
A new, compelling collection of essays by Sven Birkerts, "one of America's most distinguished, eloquent servants of the poetry and fiction that matter" (Susan Sontag)Reading, the mind's traffic in sig
In The Art of Time in Memoir, critic, editor, and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self. "Memoir is, for better and often for worse, the genre of our times," Birke
A collection of writers, including Birkerts, Wendy Lesser, Mark Slouka, Albert Goldbarth, and Paul West, share their opinions about the electronic age and the decline of reading
Latvian-born architect Gunnar Birkerts belongs to the second wave of Modernists who arrived in the United States from abroad, a group that includes Kevin Roche and Cesar Pelli among others. Educated a
Hopeful Monsters is a tour de force of intellect and eros - one in which Albert Einstein taunts a lecture hall full of Nazis and Ludwig Wittgenstein is an awkward guest at an English garden party. It
Co-authored by two esteemed writers, Writing Well, is a beautifully-written and thoroughly readable guide to the craft of writing prose. Donald Hall, National Book Critics Circle Award wi
The hero - or perhaps anti-hero - of these two classic, genre-bending mysteries is, as Sven Birkerts describes him, "a detective at career's end ... no family, a domestic life no more furnished than S
As an unloved foster child on a farm in rural Iceland, Olaf Karason has only one consolation: the belief that one day he will be a great poet. The indifference and contempt of most of the people arou
