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Nicholas Mirzoeff is Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. His book Watching Babylon, about the Iraq war as seen on TV and in film, was described by art. historian Terry Smith as ' a tour de force by perhaps the most inventive - certainly the most wide-ranging-practitioner of visual culture analysis in the world...

A cult modern classic, Tropic of Capricorn is as daring, frank and influential as Henry Miller first novel, Tropic of Cancer -- new to Penguin Modern Classics with a cover by Tracey EminA story of sexual and spiritual awakening, Tropic of Capricorn shocked readers when it was published in 1939. A mixture of fiction and autobiography, it is the...

Shocking, banned and the subject of obscenity trials, Henry Miller's first novel Tropic of Cancer is one of the most scandalous and influential books of the twentieth century -- new to Penguin Modern Classics with a cover by Tracey EminTropic of Cancer redefined the novel. Set in Paris in the 1930s, it features a starving American writer who lives...

Back in Washington, it's clear a mole has been gathering and leaking US secrets. And Caruso is desperate to avenge his friend. Soon he is on the tail of NSC-staffer Ethan Ross - a man who thinks he's too smart to ever get caught.Unfortunately, Ross has got many more secrets on a microdive, and when he decides to run, it's not just Caruso and the...

One day, sitting in traffic, married Dublin mum Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed, collides with a Range Rover and meets a handsome man who wants her telephone number. She thinks he is arrogant and dismisses the incident.But in this meeting is born the seed of something which will take Stella thousands of miles from her old life, turning an...

The Tutor is a sumptuous debut from Andrea Chapin set against the historical intrigue of Shakespearean England.'Since meeting you, dear lady, I have put quill to page every day. I write and write and write.'Headstrong young widow Katherine de L'Isle lives a comfortable but solitary existence in her uncle's Lancashire home of Lufanwal Hall until...