Written on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin’s death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckou’s ode to his literary hero and an effort to place Baldwin’s life in context within the greater African diaspora.
Beginning...
The correspondence between E. M. Forster and Christopher Isherwood is a fascinating record of the professional and personal lives of two major British writers from the 1930s to the 1960s. The letters of the 1930s reveal how Forster and Isherwood...
A virtual memoir in letters by the beloved creator of the Moomins
Tove Jansson’s works, even her famed Moomin books, fairly teem with letters of one kind or another, from messages bobbing in bottles to whole epistolary novels. Fortunately for her...
LETTERS OF ANTON CHEKHOV TO HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS
WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE GARNETT
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE
Of the eighteen hundred and ninety letters published by Chekhov's family I have chosen for...
A lively collection of Einstein’s groundbreaking scientific correspondence on modern physics with Schrödinger, Planck, and Lorentz
Imagine getting four of the greatest minds of modern physics in a room together to explain and debate the...
A provocative collection of letters to his longtime friend and translator that spans Einstein’s career and reveals the inner thoughts and daily life of a transformative genius
From their early days as tutor and scholar, discussing...