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September 2019Smiling Man. Das Lächeln des Todes
Thriller
by Knox, Joseph / Übersetzt von O'Brien, Andrea
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Joseph Losey
by Colin Gardner
The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades and several countries. A self-proclaimed Marxist and veteran of the 1930s Soviet agit-prop theater, he collaborated with Bertholt Brecht before directing noir B-pictures in Hollywood. A victim of McCarthyism, he later crossed the Atlantic to direct a series of seminal British films such as "Time Without Pity," "Eve," "The Servant," and "The Go-Between," which mark him as one of the cinema's greatest baroque stylists. His British films reflect on exile and the outsider's view of a class-bound society in crisis through a style rooted in the European art house tradition of Resnais and Godard. Gardner employs recent methodologies from cultural studies and poststructural theory, exploring and clarifying the films' uneasy tension between class and gender, and their explorations of fractured temporality.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2026Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature
by Nicholas Taylor-Collins
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January 2015Die goldene Liste
Ein Jahr. Eine Frau. Zehn unanständige Vorsätze.. Roman
by Bolouri, Joanna / Übersetzt von Andrea O'Brien Literaturübersetzungen
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Literature & Literary StudiesDecember 2000Contemporary British poetry and the city
by Peter Barry, Kim Latham
Though poets have always written about cities, the commonest critical categories (pastoral poetry, nature poetry, Romantic poetry, Georgian poetry, etc.) have usually stressed the rural, so that poetry can seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban populati. Explores a range of contemporary poets who visit the 'mean streets' of the contemporary urban scene, seeking the often cacophonous music of what happens here. Poets discussed include: Ken Smith, Iain Sinclair, Roy Fisher, Edwin Morgan, Sean O'Brien, Ciaran Carson, Peter Reading, Matt Simpson, Douglas Houston, Deryn Rees-Jones, Denise Riley, Ken Edwards, Levi Tafari, Aidan Hun, and Robert Hampson. Approaches contemporary poetry within a broad spectrum of personal, social, literary, and cultural concerns. Includes 'loco-specific' chapters, on cities including Hull, Liverpool, London, and Birmingham, with an additional chapter on 'post-industrial' cities such as Belfast, Glasgow and Dundee. ;
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January 1992Ehrenwerte Männer
Das FBI und der Pate von New York
by O'Brien, Joseph; Kurins, Andris / Englisch Schönfeld, Eike
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SociologyJanuary 2017Sport in the Black Atlantic
Cricket, Canada and the Caribbean diaspora
by Janelle Joseph. Series edited by John Horne
This book outlines the ways sport helps to create transnational social fields that interconnect migrants dispersed across a region known as the Black Atlantic: England, North America and the Caribbean. Many Caribbean men's stories about their experiences migrating to Canada, settling in Toronto, finding jobs and travelling involved some contact with a cricket and social club. This book offers a unique contribution to black diaspora studies through showing sport as a means of allaying the pain of ageing in the diaspora, creating transnational social networks and marking ethnic boundaries on a local scale. The book also brings black diaspora analysis to sport research, and through a close look at what goes on before, during and after cricket matches provides insights into the dis-unities, contradictions and complexities of Afro-diasporic identity in multicultural Canada. It will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, sport studies and black diaspora studies.
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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 2026Zadie Smith
New perspectives
by Nurten Birlik, Noémi Albert
Zadie Smith's fiction reimagines subjectivity, relationality, and the conditions of contemporary life. This book offers a timely reassessment of her work, addressing identity, urban experience, and the category of the human. Moving beyond postcolonial and multiculturalist readings, it brings psychoanalytic, historical, symptomatic, and cultural materialist perspectives to bear across her novels, stories, essays, and plays. The collection explores how Smith's characters, shaped by diverse backgrounds and settings, challenge fixed ideas of Britishness and personhood. It argues that her writing opens up a new ontological space-defined by fluid identities, shifting subjectivities, and evolving forms of relationality. By reconsidering both the human and the spatial in Smith's work, the book makes a valuable contribution to contemporary literary criticism and to current thinking on narrative, identity, and urban life.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2026Black socialities
Urban resistance and the struggle beyond recognition in Paris
by Vanessa Eileen Thompson
From author: This is a cutting-edge exploration of black urban politics in Parisian racialized working class and working poor districts, the formation of abolition geography, and the possibilities of new forms of political blackness. In Black Socialities. Urban resistance and the struggle beyond recognition in Paris, Vanessa E. Thompson argues that black urban politics in the French banlieues are multi-racial and spatially grounded towards abolition. Based on a close engagement with urban black activist practices against racial imagery in the city, policing and state racism, and housing insecurity, she shows how radical anti-racism goes beyond struggles for recognition and unfolds alongside new formations of political blackness that is based on urban conviviality. This form of black politics has much to teach us in this current conjuncture of liberal anti-racism and state recognition politics.
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April 2004Irish Pubs
Ein Reisebegleiter durch Irland
by Johann-Günther König, Doris Heitkamp
Pubs und Literatur – das geht in keinem anderen Land besser zusammen als in Irland. Doch Pub ist nicht gleich Pub. In dieser kurzweiligen Rundreise durch Irland stellt Johann-Günther König rund 150 außergewöhnliche Gaststätten vor: Ob literarisches oder singing Pub, Trauer-Pub, Hotel-Bar, Laden-Pub oder viktorianischer Gin-Palace – der Varianten gibt es viele ...Zur Feier des 100. Bloomsday begibt sich König außerdem auf einen pub crawl durch Dublin, der die Spuren von Joyce, Beckett, Brendan Behan, Flann O'Brien u. v. a. aufnimmt.»Ausflüge« in die Geschichte bedeutender Brauereien und Whiskeybrennereien sowie eine Schilderung der Entwicklung irischer Trinkkultur und der public houses runden diese Reise ab.Im insel taschenbuch liegt außerdem vor: Von Pub zu Pub. Eine literarische Kneipentour durch London und Südengland (it 2888)
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April 2013Die Gute Gesellschaft
Soziale und demokratische Politik im 21. Jahrhundert
by Christian Kellermann, Henning Meyer
Als Ferdinand Lassalle im Mai 1863 den Allgemeinen Deutschen Arbeiterverein gründete, tat er dies noch in einer anderen Welt. 150 Jahre später kann die deutsche Sozialdemokratie große Erfolge vorweisen. Angesichts der Globalisierung, Individualisierung und des Wandels der Arbeitswelt steht sie jedoch vor komplexen Herausforderungen, für die sie überzeugende Antworten entwickeln muss. In diesem Band denken kluge Köpfe aus Wissenschaft und Politik darüber nach, wie eine »Gute Gesellschaft« heute aussehen könnte und auf welchen Wegen sie sich realisieren lässt. Mit Beiträgen von Sebastian Dullien, Colin Crouch, Andrea Nahles, Julian Nida-Rümelin, Gesine Schwan u. v. a.
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December 1996Die wirklichen Wunder des Basilius Knox
Ein Roman über die Physik für Kinder von 10 bis 70 Jahren. Nachwort von Oskar Kokoschka
by Anna Maria Jokl, Kamil Lhotak, Oskar Kokoschka
Anna Maria Jokl, 1911 in Wien geboren, lebte von 1965 bis zu ihrem Tod 2001 in Jerusalem. Die Perlmutterfarbe schrieb sie in den dreißiger Jahren im Prager Exil. Ihr Gesamtwerk wurde 1995 mit dem Hans-Erich-Nossack-Preis ausgezeichnet.
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