WINNER of the Dublin Literary Award 2024 and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2022NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by the New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, The Financial Times, Words Without BordersA highly-acclaimed master work of fiction from Mircea Cărtărescu, author of Blinding, Solenoid isan existence (and eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths.Based on Cărtăr...

This book explores the evolving nature of economic and social policy in the United Kingdom over the last decade.The book relies on a computational, text-as-data, analysis of thousands of official documents produced by the British government between 1983 and 2024. The primary focus is on understanding evolutions in the recent, post-2016, period, and in particular on how this period may differ from previous eras. Three key conclusions emerge: First, the rise of a more activist, inter...

"Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and new angles of vision."—Martin E. Marty, The New York Times Book ReviewThis extraordinary work delves into the subject of religion in the prehistoric and ancient worlds—humankind's earliest quests for meaning. From Neanderthal burials to the mythology of the Iron Age, to the religions of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Israel, India, and beyond, it offers both an appreciation of the wid...

The second volume of the extraordinary history that "should be an essential resource for generations to come" ( Parabola).In volume two of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religions, Judaism, the Hellenistic period, the Iranian syntheses, and the birth of Chri...

A “pseudo-historical” epic of human ambition and the quest for power, from Romania’s most celebrated contemporary writer.Narrated in the second person, seven archangels relay the captivating and frequently terrifying tale of Theodoros (or Tudor, or Tewodros, as he is variably known): a servant, a runaway, a pirate, an emperor, a lovesick romantic. From Wallachia to Greece to Ethiopia, “you” undertake a series of surreal quests rooted as much in real-life history as...

The short-sighted adolescent is a poor schoolboy who is in love with literature, and tries to emulate the lives and works of the writers he most admires. He is also fascinated by science and history, and stays up all night reading. At the age of 17 he decides to write a novel to prove to his teachers that he is not as mediocre as his fellow pupils, and is prepared to give up everything in order to do so. The novel is written in a series of notebooks - the 'diary' of the title - but instead...

In The Quest Mircea Eliade stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that what he calls a new humanism "will be engendered by a confrontation of modern Western man with unknown or less familiar worlds of meaning.""Each of these essays contains insights which will be fruitful and challenging for professional students of religion, but at the same time they...

"Here finally are Eliade's memoirs of the first thirty years of his life in Mac Linscott Rickett's crisp and lucid English translation. They present a fascinating account of the early development of a Renaissance talent, expressed in everything from daily and periodical journalism, realistic and fantastic fiction, and general nonfiction works to distinguished contributions to the history of religions. Autobiography follows an apparently amazingly candid report of this remarkable man's prog...

'Cartarescu is one of the great literary voices of Central Europe' Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize winner and author of Flights'A Danubian Narnia. . . his writing delivers a rainbow-hued riot of fantasy, imagination and invention' Boyd Tonkin, SpectatorA dreamlike novel of memory and magic, Nostalgia turns the dark world of Communist Bucharest into a place of strange enchantments. Here a man plays increasingly death-d...

'Visionary... almost as if David Lynch had dramatised the prophetic books of William Blake' Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times'This is writing of overwhelming accomplishment' Chris Power, ObserverAn enthralling, hallucinatory masterwork by one of Central Europe’s most celebrated novelists‘We exist between the past and future like the vermiform body of a butterfly, in...

I'm picturing you as a fairly new author. Maybe you've published in the past, maybe not. It's possible that you've written a great deal or perhaps writing is something that you've aspired to do but never really gotten into. It's even possible that you're one of the masters in the field and you're looking for an idea to turn into the next best-seller. Wherever you are, that's great, we can always use more books. For every book that you see published, even if it didn't appeal to you, there a...

În luna februarie a anului 2004 am fost căutat la Consiliul judeţean de scriitorul braşovean Mircea Brenciu. Domnia-sa îmi propunea organizarea unei acţiuni deosebite ca impact social şi mediatic. Era vorba despre comemorarea unui mare erou al românilor, aparţinător – la modul dureros – de istoria noastră recentă. Se apropia ziua de 2 martie, zi în care se împlineau 15 ani de la martiriul celui ce a fost Liviu Corneliu Babeş. Întâi şi întâi, am realizat că această lucrare a comemorării era...