A compelling ode to the essay form and the great essaysists themselves, from Montaigne to Woolf to Sontag.Essayism is a book about essays and essayists, a study of melancholy and depression, a love le
Charlotte Brontë found in her illnesses, real and imagined, an escape from familial and social duties, and the perfect conditions for writing. The German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber believed his
ESSAYISM is a personal, critical and polemical book about the genre, its history and its contemporary possibilities, itself an example of what it describes: an essay that is curious and digressive and
Essays and criticism on artist, writers, and living as a European writer in the midst of Brexit.In Pieces offers critical, polemic, and personal essays written by Brian Dillon in the past decade. Writ
Ruin Lust offers a guide to the mournful, thrilling, comic, and perverse uses of ruins in art from the 17th century to the present day. This book, which accompanied a major Tate Britain exhibition, in
The "ruins" of the modern era are the landmarks of recent art's turn towardsite and situation, history and memory. The abiding interest of artists in ruination and decay hasled in particular to the co
