Johnny Panic and the Bible of DreamsEvery day from nine to five I sit at my desk facing the door of the office and type up other people's dreams. An office assistant in a hospital pursues a secret vocation. A girl endures a series of initiation ceremonies to join her high school sorority. A married woman seeks relief from the dull realities of daily life. From her mid teens Sylvia Plath wrote stories, twenty four of which are collected here, along with works of journalism and extracts

and the boundary between compassion and self-preservation

As difficult to read as it is to put down

and militant book

literary theory

James Baldwin’s critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation

and the intertwined histories of Islam and Christianity in the Philippines

this Little History illuminates the economic forces that shape our world

England and France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance

Claire Hughes Johnson has worked with founders and company builders to try to replicate their success

from the historical to urgent matters of current policy: Why

and above all recover a sense of public purpose