books by subject
Literary Theory & Movements

Shylock: Four Hundred Years in the Life of a Legend

The Jew's Body

The Scarlet Letter

Music & Silence

The Bitter Taste of Victory: Life, Love and Art in the Ruins of the Reich

Irene Nemirovsky: Her Life and Works

The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography

John Steinbeck: A Biography

Anton Chekhov: A Life

Song of the Distant Dove: Judah Halevi's Pilgrimage

The Will to Live on

Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford

The Real World of Jane Austen

Thomas Hardy

CEZANNE IN THE HEDGE

Jane Austen: A Life

A Brief Guide to William Shakespeare

Primo Levi: Tragedy of an Optimist

The Nemirovsky Question: The Life, Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in Twentieth-Century France

Dreamers: When the Writers Took Power, Germany 1918

Understanding Joseph Roth

Kafka on the Shore

The Courilof Affair

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

One Pair of Feet: 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens ... she's blissfully funny' Nina Stibbe

The Consolation of Maps

Mademoiselle Perle and Other Stories (riverrun editions): a new selection of the sharp, sensitive and much-revered stories

Victor Hugo

The Nightmare of Reason: Life of Franz Kafka
