Under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen, Flann O' Brien wrote a daily column in the 'Irish Times' called 'Cruiskeen Lawn' for over twenty years which hilariously satirised the absurdities and solemnities of Dublin life.

Presents a compilation of the best articles Vice magazine published between October 1994 to 2005.

Contains the writings of John Peel, broadcaster of the Radio Show Home Truths .

Henry Fairlie was one of the most colourful and trenchant journalists of the twentieth century. This work features his essays that celebrate Winston Churchill, old-fashioned bathtubs, and American empire; they ridicule Republicans who think they are conservatives and yuppies who want to live forever.

Russian Authors Interviewed by Kristina Rotkirch.

Collects fifty of the author's best pieces on the celebrities he most admired, largely from the world of showbiz. This work features the following profiles: WC Fields, Alec Guinness, Peter Brook, Arthur Miller, Lenny Bruce, Eric Morecambe, James Cagney, Greta Garbo, Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Richardson, Bernard Shaw, Mel Brooks, and more.

Roisin Ingle's weekly column in The Irish Times Magazine has been enjoyed by thousands of readers over the last three years. This the collection of those columns written in her disarmingly open style - always humorous, often deeply affecting - she muses on life, love and everything in between.

Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening.

In 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on the island of Sakhalin. This book presents a collection of the annotated translations of Chekhov's impressions of his trip through Siberia.

Includes seventy political pieces from the 1920s and 1930s, which are drawn from Monday columns in the Baltimore Evening Sun .

A collection of satirical pieces by the well known columist, on a range of topics including media, politics, and sport.

Contains David Remnick's writings. This book covers topics such as the Sopranos; about Solzhenitsyn returning to Russia after nearly 20 years in exile, about Vaclav Havel stepping down after 13 years as the president of Czechoslovakia; on the reign of Vladimir Putin, on the failure of democracy in Mubarak's Egypt; and on Katharine Graham.

Notes from the New Yorker.

In 1971, the outlandish originator of gonzo journalism, Hunter S Thompson (1937-2005) commandeered the international limelight with his comic masterpiece Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas . This volume brings together a collection of personal interviews that trace the trajectory of Thompson's prolific and much publicized career.

A collection of essays and interviews based on the author's articles in The Scotsman newspaper.

Discusses about Don DeLillo, Philip Roth and The Sopranos; and about Solzhenitsyn returning to Russia after 20 years in exile, or on the failure of democracy in Mubarak's Egypt.

Chronicles several important developments in English-language poetry during the nineties and the turn of the century, most importantly Asian American poetry, digital poetics, and the changing face of poetry's 'experimental' wing.

Since 1955, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio 4's flagship programs. Every week correspondents from around the world report on stories behind the headlines. This companion work brings dispatches that take the readers to the four corners of the earth, from a Maoist wedding to the most dangerous road in the world.

Shows Commie Girl's mordant gaiety in the teeth of the febrile vacancy that threatens to engulf her at various turns - whether stricken with terror at the prospect of a chance encounter with Dick Cheney or puzzling in vain over the philosophical conundrum of taking Arnold Schwarzenegger seriously.