Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald
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Category: Essays
Sebald's final collection of essays provides a powerful insight into the themes that came to dominate his life. Four pieces pay tribute to Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present. Sebald also examines the works of writers such as Gunter Grass, Bruce Chatwin and Kafka, showing both how lite ...Show more
One for the Books by Joe Queenan
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Category: Essays
Since Gutenberg first began moving type around five centuries ago, the book - one of the great achievements of human culture - has been subjected to any number of indignities, from being banned to being burned to being turned into a breathtaking quantity of unspeakably appalling movies. It has managed ...Show more
Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries by JON RONSON
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Category: Essays
UPDATED EDITION INCLUDING TWO EXTRA STORIES Jon Ronson has been on patrol with America's real-life superheroes and to a UFO convention in the Nevada desert with Robbie Williams. He's met a man who tried to split the atom in his kitchen and asked a conscious robot if she's got a soul. Fascinated by madne ...Show more
A Short Treatise on the Great Virtues: The Uses of Philosophy in Everyday Life by Andre Comte-Sponville
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Category: Essays
Much of the history of philosophy is the history of ethics. From Plato to Sartre, the great philosophers have returned to the central ethical questions of how we are to live good lives; how is it appropiate and virtuous for us to behave, both to ourselves and to other? In addressing these questions, And ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 49: Not Dead Yet: Labor's Post-Left Future by Mark Latham
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Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
'During the term of the Rudd and Gillard governments, criticism of the Labor Party became a national pastime.' So writes Mark Latham, a one-time leader of the party and still its most perceptive - and fiercest - critic.In Quarterly Essay 49, Latham argues that the time has come to go beyond criticism to ...Show more
The Story of America: Essays on Origins by Jill Lepore
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Category: Essays
In "The Story of America", Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories - from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address - to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. Over ...Show more
White Album: Essays by Joan Didion
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Category: Essays | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define m ...Show more
In Praise of Messy Lives: Essays by Katie Roiphe
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Category: Essays
This powerful collection of essays ranges from pop culture to politics, from Hillary Clinton to Susan Sontag, from Facebook to "Mad Men, " from Joan Didion to David Foster Wallace to--most strikingly--the author's own life. For fans of the essays of John Jeremiah Sullivan and Jonathan Lethem. Katie Roip ...Show more
Stone Diaries by abby werlock
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Category: Essays | Series: Continuum Contemporaries S.
This work is part of the "Continuum Contemporaries" series giving readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential contemporary novels. It contains a biography of the novelist, a full-length study of the novel, a summary of how the novel was ...Show more
You Tell Your Dog First by Alison Pace
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Category: Essays
"You Tell Your Dog First..." About the date you just had...about the questionable results of a medical test...about the good and the bad...about everything. For years, award-winning author Alison Pace was a dog person without a dog. And then, she got Carlie--a feisty and fluffy West Highland white terri ...Show more
The New York Review Abroad by Robert B. Silvers
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Category: Essays
For the past fifty years, The New York Review of Books has covered virtually every international revolution and movement of consequence by dispatching the world's most brilliant writers to write eyewitness accounts. The New York Review Abroad not only brings together twenty-eight of the most riveting of ...Show more