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Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times

10 best books like Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times (Neil Astley): The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis, The Complete Short Novels, A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry, Moy Sand and Gravel, Crackpot Palace, The Rattle Bag, The Man With Night Sweats, The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics, The Cockroach, Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction

The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis
AuthorThomas Dormandy
ISBN1852853328
This is a history of tuberculosis, including its social, artistic and human impact. Thomas Dormandy's account of the search for the cure is complemented by a description of its complex natural history; portraits of individual sufferers, including writers, artists and musicians, whose lives were...
The Complete Short Novels
AuthorAnton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels. Here, brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

The...
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry
AuthorCzesław Miłosz
ISBN0156005743
"A collection of 300 poems from writers around the world, selected and edited by Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz Czesław Miłosz's A Book of Luminous Things—his personal selection of poems from the past and present—is a testament to the stunning varieties of human experience, offered up so...
Moy Sand and Gravel
AuthorPaul Muldoon
ISBN0374528845
Paul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since Hay (1998), finds him working a rich vein that extends from the rivery, apple-heavy County Armagh of the 1950s, in which he was brought up, to suburban New Jersey, on the banks of a canal dug by Irish navvies, where he now lives. Grounded, glistening,...
Crackpot Palace
AuthorJeffrey Ford
ISBN0062122592
Eclectic is certainly an adjective that can be used to describe the work of the phenomenal Jeffrey Ford—along with imaginative, provocative, mesmerizing, and brilliant. His powerful dark fantasy, The Physiognomy, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; his novel, The Girl in the Glass, won...
The Rattle Bag
AuthorSeamus Heaney
The Rattle Bag is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backgrounds. These poems have been selected by the simple yet telling criteria that they are the personal favorites of the editors, themselves two of contemporary...
The Man With Night Sweats
AuthorThom Gunn
ISBN0374523819
Thom Gunn's excellent verses in The Man with Night Sweats qualify him as the Poet Laureate for the AIDS crisis. This would be an unwanted honor for the poet, but the need for these brilliant poems is great, as they ensure that the events of that sorrowful era will remain accessible to students of history...
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
AuthorWilliam Easterly
ISBN0262550423
Why economists' attempts to help poorer countries improve their economic well-being have failed.

Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and North America....
The Cockroach
AuthorIan McEwan
That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature.

Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain –...
Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction
AuthorDamien Keown
ISBN0192853864
This accessible volume covers both the teachings of the Buddha and the integration of Buddhism into daily life. What are the distinctive features of Buddhism? What or who is the Buddha, and what are his teachings? How has Buddhist thought developed over the centuries, and how can contemporary dilemmas...
The Last Englishmen: Love, War, and the End of Empire
AuthorDeborah Baker
A sumptuous biographical saga, both intimate and epic, about the waning of the British Empire in India John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalaya. Michael Spender was the first to draw a detailed map of the North Face of Mount Everest. While their younger brothers—W. H. Auden and Stephen...
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