Reaktion Books

In this concise yet comprehensive critical biography, Ritchie Robertson examines the work of Friedrich Nietzsche within the cont...

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....