A Little History of MusicA superbly engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present Music excites and moves us perhaps more than any other art form. From a Neanderthals bone flute to the festivals of Glastonbury and Coachella, human beings have always made and enjoyed music. Covering a remarkable range, including Indian raga, Javanese gamelan, medieval chant, jazz and K pop, this Little History celebrates the wonder of music, and why it is treasured

the precociously brilliant Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed to a professorship of classical philology at the University of Basel

we move through space as though we are inside the mind itself

perhaps most blatantly

for love and for identity

West advances principles for how the autonomy of art could be understood today

What justifies foreign invasion

now published in a new

putting her life at risk by speaking with her compatriots

and introduces great figures such as Nizam ul-Mulk and al-Ghazali

The resulting poems often defy interpretation…” This marvelous new bilingual selection of poems spanning his career up to his early death confirms Robert Hass’s assessment that Vallejo was “one of the essential poets of the twentieth century

and theories of subjectivity

I Am Not Here to Give a Speech is a must-buy for anyone who ever fell in love with Macondo or cherished a battered copy of Love in the Time of Cholera