One of classical literature’s greatest satires.  Meer

A vital document in the history of the Indigenous peoples of North America  Meer

In 1931 the Italian poet Lauro de Bosis flew over Rome in a small plane in order to scatter anti-Fascist pamphlets from the sky. He did not survive the journey, but in Story of My Death he left behind a remarkable testament.  Meer

In this brilliant essay the historian Tony Judt describes the singular contribution made by railways to the establishment of our shared way of life. From the transformation of urban spaces to the reorganisation of our sense of time, it is impossible to imagine the world we live in without the social and economic changes wrought by rail travel.  Meer

One of the great cultural critics of the twentieth century offers a strikingly personal meditation on his career as a book collector and on the strange relations that spring up between objects and their owners.  Meer