On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the CollectionMiniature books, eighteenth century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing, a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world. Originally published in 1984 (Johns Hopkins University Press), and now available in paperback for the first time, this highly original book draws

and Porochista Khakpour rubs shoulders with poems by Natalie Diaz

East Bay Booksellers

moves to northeastern American towns battered by lake-effect snow and economic woes

The New York Public Library

and influenced subsequent generations of photographers

Aware of the incredible and shocking collection of mystifying curiosities

Based on several years of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s

Dark Mirrors' narrator fears he may be the last man on earth until the discovery of another creates new fears

Roosevelt (and the genesis of their blood feud)

most of them made specially for the book

and an integral part of the capitalist world system

falls for a woman named Bee