Avant-garde publisher recalls Paris, New York

The memoir of Richard Seaver, who introduced the US to such avant-garde authors as Samuel Beckett, is being posthumously published to wide acclaim.

Future to be shaped by mass migration

With a third of humanity on the move, new urban spaces are becoming the focal points of conflict and change that will reconfigure the world economy during the new century.

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This novel from widely acclaimed Korean author Shin focuses on motherhood and family guilt. Park So-nyo, mother of four now-adult children, has gone missing in a Seoul train station on the way to visit them.

Contradictory avant-garde writer remembered

Charles J. Shields offers a detailed and sad account of the struggle and painful longevity of Kurt Vonnegut, who died in 2007 at the age of 95. His well known phrase, “So it goes,” originated with his book Slaughterhouse-Five and conjures up images of the writer’s cynicism and shoulder hunching.

The architectural wonders of bird nests

Peter Goodfellow, a retired teacher of English language and literature and a lifelong bird watcher, has produced a fascinating study of nest design and construction.

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Nan Goldin is one of today’s leading photographers. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, including California, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Amsterdam, Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Museu Reina Sofia.

The dark side of Dickens

Faithful to fact and accurate in its commentary, Claire Tomalin’s superb Charles Dickens: A Life presents the man as he really was.

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This collection of hard-hitting, highly readable essays reflects Gombrich’s preoccupation with the central questions of value and tradition in our culture.

Adventurer of wanderlust at sea

John Moynihan, son of New York’s senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, went to work on the Merchant Marine during the summer of his junior year at Wesleyan University.

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The Polit-Sheer-Form Office (PSFO) art collective was founded in 2005 by Hong Hao, Xiao Yu, Song Dong, Liu Jianhua and Leng Lin.