Domain - Fiction

Sterling A. Brown’s poetry and aesthetics are central to a proper understanding of African American art and politics of the early twentieth centu...

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New Yorker Best Book of 2020 "Wise, warm, witty and dizzyingly wide-ranging."—The New York Times "S...

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the u...

Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of "carefree wandering," deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness so...

This book investigates synaesthesia in philosophy and literature, from Aristotle to Charles Baudelaire to Jean-Luc Nancy and beyond. Its central ...

Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, ...

This profound analysis of the nature of art is the culmination of a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice, and reli...

Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes's personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume—and the last book he published—finds the author applying his inf...

A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading—how we visualize images from reading works of literature, fr...