Advanced Search 
 
Shopping cart(0) Shopping Cart | Login
BOOK SUBJECT
BESTSELLERS
Afterlife: A Memoir
Author: Antrim, Donald
ISBN: 9780374299613
List Price:$ 21.00
Our Price: $ 4.98
Our Price: $4.98
J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings (Cambr
Author: Colini, Stefan
ISBN: 9780521379175
List Price:$ 14.99
Our Price: $ 5.98
Our Price: $8.98
Art of the Islamic Tile, The
Author: Degeorge, Gerard
ISBN: 9782080108760
List Price:$ 65.00
Our Price: $ 199.98
Our Price: $199.98
NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Current Book Reviews
Robert Gottlieb on Charles Dickens
Robert Gottlieb speaks to Andrew Martin about Charles Dickens’s troubled life, his best and worst novels, and how to read without editing.
Derek Walcott, Two Poems
Derek Walcott recites “Fare Well” by Walter de la Mare, and reads “The Hulls of White Yachts,” from his latest collection White Egrets.
Charles Rosen Plays Chopin
Charles Rosen plays the music of Frédéric Chopin and talks to Chris Carroll about the composer’s surprising radicalism and the critical controversy surrounding his work, the mysterious spianato ....
Times Literary Supplement
Current Book Reviews
Rochester's salacious textual history
At some point during the Christmas festivities at Court in 1673, Charles II and the Earl of Rochester got talking about a lampoon that was doing the rounds at Whitehall, and the King asked to see ....
John Aubrey and the roots of the Royal Society
Gerard Woodward's narratives of consumption
CUSTOMER SERVICES
GIFT CERTIFICATES
JOIN OUR MAILING LIST
Email
Privacy By SafeSubscribeSM

Rochester's salacious textual history
At some point during the Christmas festivities at Court in 1673, Charles II and the Earl of Rochester got talking about a lampoon that was doing the rounds at Whitehall, and the King asked to see a copy. Rummaging drunkenly through his pockets, Rochester accidentally gave him the manuscript of his own “Satire on Charles II” instead. Charles may have been the “easiest King and best bred man alive”, as the poem begins by saying, but not even he could shrug off (for instance) Rochester’s account of the “pains it cost poor laborious Nelly / Whilst she employs hands, fingers, mouth and thighs / Ere she can mount the member she enjoys”. Rochester had to flee the Court and lie low for a while at his country estate. In his absence, the satire circulated unstoppably; not in print (it didn’t become printable until 1697) but through what the great Rochester scholar Harold Love termed “scribal publication”.

John Aubrey and the roots of the Royal Society

Gerard Woodward's narratives of consumption

C is for Carrefax (and Continental Theory)
Tom McCarthy’s first novel, Remainder (2005), wore its conceit heavily. An anonymous man receives £8.5 million as compensation for an accident he cannot remember. Brain damage has destroyed his spontaneity, forcing him to completely relearn bodily control. “Eventually I not only learnt to execute most actions but also came up to speed”, he tells us. “But I still had to think about each movement I made, had to understand it. No Doing without Understanding: the accident bequeathed me that for ever, an eternal detour.” The man spends his fortune assembling an army of actors and consultants, whose job is to re-stage, in continual loops, episodes that enter his mind like visions; creating precise reconstructions of specific moments (a slow afternoon in a block of flats; a visit to a garage; a bank heist) through which the narrator wanders compulsively, over and over again.

About us / Contact Us / View Cart Advertise on Symposium / Easy Returns / Shipping