A selection of the best short work by France's greatest living nonfiction writer A New York Times Notable Books of 2020 No one writes nonfiction like Emmanuel Carrere.
The journalist and critic Siegfried Kracauer is best remembered today for his investigations of film and other popular media, and for his seminal influence on Frankfurt School thinkers like Theodor Adorno.
Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected non-fiction, by the legendary David Foster WallaceBeloved for his wonderfully discerning eye, his verbal elasticity and his uniquely generous imagination, David Foster Wallace was heralded by critics and fans as the voice of a generation.
This landmark publication collects three decades of writing from one of the most original, provocative and consistently entertaining voices of our time.
Wer sich in seiner neuen Reihe Österreich von innen mit Alfred Komarek auf die Reise begibt, wird auf unterhaltsame Weise das Wesen österreichischer Lebenswelten erforschen.
Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, the most important novel of the Native American Renaissance, is among the most most widely taught and studied novels in higher education today.
The most comprehensive one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in EnglishThe Essential Goethe is the most comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English.
Exploring how the depiction of otherness or alterity during the Middle Ages became problematic in the aesthetics of the Romance epics written during the centuries of the Crusades, this book offers a vital contribution to the growing interest in the way foreign women are presented in the texts of the Latin West and will be of consuming interest to students in women's studies, cultural studies, and medieval literature.
In the midst of the Yugoslav wars of the early 1990s, Dubravka Ugresicwinner of the 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literaturewas invited to Middletown, Connecticut as a guest lecturer.
The title cloud of Matt Donovan’s A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape refers to the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius that in 79 AD buried the city of Pompeii under twenty feet of ash.
A collection of essays accompanied by beautiful black-and-white photography from a diverse group of women on the moment they realized they were ready to fight for themselvesincluding Gloria Steinem, Lena Waithe, Joanna Gaines, Brandi Carlile, Beanie Feldstein, Cynthia Erivo, and Billie Jean King, among others.
In 2014, when the Russian-Latvian radio talk-show host Alex Dubas started asking his celebrity guests to describe a personal "e;moment of happiness"e; in their lives, the results were unexpectedly frank and exhilarating.
The incomparable Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed, prizewinning books of nonfiction, brings the same dazzling writing to the essays in Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness.
Siri Hustvedts Themen in dieser neuen, sehr persönlichen Sammlung von erstaunlichen Essays reichen von der Natur von Erinnerung und Zeit bis zu dem, was wir von unseren Eltern erben, und sie erweitern ihre bekannten Forschungsgebiete: Feminismus, Psychoanalyse, Neurowissenschaften, die Kunst, das Denken und das Schreiben.
A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and Other Essays is the definitive collection of Susan Sontag's best known and important works published in Penguin Modern Classics.
'A rare treat and it comes in seven servings, each essay will grip you at once' NEW SCIENTIST'There is a lovely tribute to Dawkins's friend Douglas Adams, some interesting speculations on the next few decades of genetic engineering, an explanation of what crystals really are, and some heartfelt reminiscences of Africa' GUARDIAN'Essential reading' SUNDAY TIMESRichard Dawkins is one of the finest minds in science, and in this superb collection of essays and letters, he demonstrates the depth of his knowledge and the rich variety of his interests.
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Collected writings by one of the most influential Black Brazilian intellectuals of the twentieth centuryBeatriz Nascimento (19421995) was a poet, historian, artist, and political leader in Brazil's Black movement, an innovative and creative thinker whose work offers a radical reimagining of gender, space, politics, and spirituality around the Atlantic and across the Black diaspora.
While it is generally agreed amongst criminologists that the world of crime is predominantly the domain of men, women played a much larger role than they do today before the twentieth century.
»Ad hoc« – Jüngers Gelegenheitsschriften und -reden erlauben Einblicke in seinen Familien- und Freundeskreis, wenn er etwa seinem Bruder zum Geburtstag gratuliert.
