Essays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582433202Author Penelope FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 369g

This international bestseller is an encyclopedic A-Z masterpiece-the perfect introduction to the very core of Western humanism. Clive James rescues, or occasionally destroys, the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists,...

"These are stories to cherish, as brilliant and charming as the writer himself."-Olivia Laing "The sensibility of a magician, a trickster's dark humor, and a formidable musical and literary erudition."-The New York Times Joseph Keckler's signatures are...

What happens when cataracts rob an art critic of his sight? John Berger, whose classic book Ways of Seeing has been in print for fifty years, joins forces with Turkish illustrator Selcuk Demirel to reflect on his own experience of loss of vision. 'John...

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An indispensable collection of one of America's most outspoken and original critics of the second half of the twentieth century Man of letters, political critic, public intellectual, Irving Howe was one of America's most exemplary and embattled writers...

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The era in the United States between the Civil War and the end of World War I, was marked by increased nation-building, immigration, internal migration and racial tension. This period of time saw the rise of local colour literature, which described the...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142004937Author Mark KurlanskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 459gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm...

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Over the past few years, in essays published in n+1, Jewish Currents, and elsewhere, Ari M. Brostoff has grappled with the intellectual upheavals and political contradictions that surfaced during the Trump era. After the breaking point of the 2016...

For this definitive collection of Pound's Literary Essays, his friend (and English editor) T. S. Eliot chose material from five earlier volumes: Pavannes and Divisions (1918), Instigations (1920), How to Read (1931), Make It New (1934), and Polite Essays...

"Jenny is the future of nonfiction in America. What an absurdly arrogant statement to make. I make it anyway. Watch."-John D'Agata "Yes, Aristotle, there can be pleasure without 'complete and unified action with a beginning, middle, and end.' Jenny...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805062960Author Wallace StegnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 340g

A journalist and folklorist explores the truths that underlie the stories we imagine-and reveals the magic in the everyday. "I've always felt that the term fairy tale doesn't quite capture the essence of these stories," writes Emily Urquhart...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632868800Author Briallen HopperFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 498g

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences, and the result is The Displaced, a powerful dispatch from the individual lives behind current...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814257821Author Whitney OttoFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129148193Author E. F. KnightFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156607520Author Professor of Semiotics Umberto EcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams)...

"What if truth were a woman?" asked Nietzsche. In ancient Greek thought, truth in language has a special relation to the female by virtue of her pre-eminent art-form-the one Freud believed was even invented by women-weaving. The essays in this book...

George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected--and illuminated--the fraught times in which he lived. "As soon as he began to write something," comments George...

George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected--and illuminated--the fraught times in which he lived. "As soon as he began to write something," comments George...

It's no secret that authors have a love-hate relationship with Hollywood. The oft-repeated cliche that "the book was better than the movie" holds true for more reasons than the average reader will ever know. When asked about selling their book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525434191Author Joan DidionFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

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From the beginning, readers have come to O for help in figuring out who they were meant to be. O's Little Guide to Finding Your True Purpose is a blend of practical advice and real-life stories of trial, error and triumph. Each entry in this engaging and...

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This is the Place is a collection of essays exploring home, from a diverse collection of writers. Home is a loaded word, and a complex idea for most of us: it's a place that can be safe, sentimental, difficult, nourishing, war-torn, or long-lost. It's a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970849380Author Dana StabenowFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Epicenter Press (WA)Publisher Epicenter Press (WA)Weight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

This powerful selection of essays proposes practices of reading and criticism to make the field of postcolonial studies more fully attentive to historical circumstances and socio-material conditions. Benita Parry points to 'directions and dead ends' in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926455440Author Lee MaracleFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 412g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780848757465Author Rick BraggFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Oxmoor House, IncorporatedPublisher Oxmoor House, Incorporated

A conversational collection of essays on poetry, offering a highly entertaining analysis of poetic craft with insightful writings on poets like Robert Pinsky, Robert Hass and Louise Gluck. Hoagland has what could be called rock star status' in the poetry...