Reaktion Books

Born in Germany in 1920 and raised in the United States, the poet, short-story writer and novelist Charles Bukowski occupies a u...

In 1859 Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. In this bedrock of biology books Darwin carved a new origin-story for...

Aldous Huxley was one of the twentieth century's most prescient thinkers. This new biography is a rich and lucid account that ch...

One of France's most high-profile writers, Albert Camus experienced both public adulation and acrimonious rejection during a car...

Along with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) is an iconic figure of the Beat generation. In this...

Yukio Mishima was the most internationally acclaimed Japanese author of the twentieth century: prodigiously talented, dazzlingly...

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent fourteen years creating A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time), his magnum opus....