ApparitionsSister Lugarda de la Encarnacin takes the lash, and an unnamed mother gets down on her hands and knees sacramental postures demanded by inscrutable men. Apparitions is a novel of ecstasy pursued, desire transmogrified into devotion, and obedience as a passionately pursued, not entirely free choice. Erotic, and suffused with painting, music, art, its an incantatory exploration of what it means to abandon the world, and to use your body in pain, and in

inventive illustrations

we are faced with a troubling two-way passage: we penetrate the world of the image

turned on an unpremeditated victim

A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun

One of the most important thinkers ever to write in English

Thus the life of poverty described by Ghazali in Al-Ghazali on Poverty and Abstinence refers to what every devoted follower of the Prophet is meant to adopt whatever his or her outer state may be

the bestselling author of The Language Instinct

the magnificent poet who gave us The Late Wisconsin Spring moves ever more swiftly and surefootedly into the deepest regions of self-invention: the past -- few poets write more accurately and painfully about that uncanny estranged place that never finds its way out of us

she delivers an intersectional critique of humanism and anthropocentrism

gross commercial excess and the continued growth of violent colonialism

are the complete poems of Alberto Caeiro

he discovers a previously unseen painting