Against Amazon: And Other Essays, Paperback

Picking up where the widely praised Bookshops: A Reader's History left off, Against Amazon explores the increasing pressures of Amazon and other new technologies on bookshops and libraries. Collecting the author's essays on these vital social, cultural, and intellectual spaces, as well as his interviews with the writers who love them--including Alberto Manguel, Iain Sinclair, Luigi Amara and Han Kang, among others--Against Amazon is equal parts a history of books and bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letter--and, most urgently, a manifesto against the corrosive pressures of late capitalism.

Peter Bush is a translator of French, Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish. He has previously translated works by Federico Garc a Lorca, Pedro Almod var, and Joan Sales. He has been awarded La Creu de Sant Jordi for his translation and promotion of Catalan literature.