Have you ever wished that you could have seen King Solomon's mighty Temple in Jerusalem or climbed to the top of the legendary Tower of Babel? What must it have been like to have paraded up and down the great glass galleries of the Crystal Palace in London in 1851? Why is the Euston Arch, demolished ...
The voice of the resistance" (New York Times) and author of more than twenty books, including international best-seller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit turns the well-known Cinderella tale on its head. An empowered Cinderella liberates herself and inspires those around her in a well-crafted ...
Originally published by Gryphon Books in 1993, Difficult Lives was one of the earliest attempts to track the legacy of original paperback writers such as Jim Thompson, David Goodis and Chester Himes. The individual essays on these three first appeared in literary magazines. Difficult Lives visits a rare moment when...
