'Funny, moving, wise and constantly surprising' Martin Chilton, Independent Memoir of the Month'Astonishing. These poems glimmer with a white-hot beauty that is hard won, and that sings' Sarah Ruhl'Striking, surprising, and technically excellent, the poems resonate way beyond their endings' Roger RobinsonPatient is a normal appearing woman in no obvious distress.On an ordina...

American Accent Drills for British and Australian Speakers provides a comprehensive guide to learning a "General American" accent, made specifically for native English speakers.Unlike most American accent guides, which are geared toward ESL learners, this handbook covers only the shifts that English speakers need to make – nothing more, nothing less. In addition to vowel and consonant drills, it covers the finer points of American intonation and elision, features that ofte...

Back by popular demand, Jennifer Egan (A Visit from the Goon Squad), Siri Hustvedt (The Blazing World), and Margot Livesey (The Flight of Gemma Hardy) revisit Gustave Flaubert’s classic in a lively discussion. With a reading by Amanda Quaid (Pericles at the Public Theater).

You may not know her name, but Eunice Newton Foote made groundbreaking discoveries about the greenhouse effect in the 1850s. Her experiments showed that different gases, including carbon dioxide, absorb and trap heat, an early milestone in the history of climate science. And even though her findings were published in a leading scientific journal – a rarity in the days of a male-dominated field – her work remained virtually unknown until recently. Now, thanks to playwright Amanda Quaid, we ...