Imperium

ImperiumImperium is a classic of reportage and a literary masterwork by one of the great writers and witnesses of the twentieth century. With an Afterword by Margaret Atwood, It is the story of an empire: the constellation of states that was submerged under a single identity for most of the century the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. From the entrance of Soviet troops into his hometown in Poland in 1939, to just before the Berlin Wall came down, as the

the collection spans the length and breadth of Wright’s projects

instruments

living in the wilderness among grizzly bears – he has always been intrigued by the extremes of human experience

we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family

a quiet town on the North Carolina coast

her acute interpretation of its institutions and literature

Toni Morrison and Ursula K

Seeking a Pulitzer Prize

one to rank alongside John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle and Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs

while the artist sketches them

Shirley Jackson's 1953 classic about life with her husband and four children in rural Vermont is one of America's most celebrated memoirs of family life

as bizarre occurrences—involving underground-art punks