Regeneration

Pat Barker

Regeneration by Pat Barker is a classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young - published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.'I just don't think our war aims -whatever they may be- and we don't know - justify this level of slaughter.'The poets and soldiers Siegfri...

The Ribbon at Olympia`s Throat

Michel Leiris; Christine Pichini; Chris Kraus

Short fragments and essays that explore how a seemingly irrelevant aesthetic detail may cause the eruption of sublimity within the mundane. That the nude painted by Manet (in a painting so conceptually new that it created a scandal in its day) achieves so much truth through such a minor detail, that ri...