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The Best American Essays 2018 by Hilton Als
epub |eng | | Author:Hilton Als

ask lazarus about miracles: the hard part comes afterwards. Ben Okri’s memorable, singular, highly original novel The Famished Road is narrated by a character named Azaro—or at least that is ...
( Category: United States November 6,2018 )
Exile by Taslima Nasrin
epub |eng | 2016-09-18 | Author:Taslima Nasrin

11 December I would have surely perished if not for my computer and the Internet. I had initially thought to myself, why take the computer along for a two-day trip? ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 6,2018 )
In My Mind's Eye by Jan Morris
epub |eng | 2018-11-05 | Author:Jan Morris [Jan Morris]

DAY 93 ‘Chaos’, the dictionary tells me, is a state of complete confusion and disorder, such as existed before the cosmos was created. I know it well, and I know ...
( Category: Memoirs November 6,2018 )
Rough Likeness by Lia Purpura
epub |eng | 2012-02-01 | Author:Lia Purpura

Here, my students and I are reading Virginia Woolf, who worked in Mac’s London, right through the war, this very same war, on her own piece, “A Sketch of the ...
( Category: Earth Sciences November 5,2018 )
Lost Time by Jozef Czapski
epub |eng | 2018-09-03 | Author:Jozef Czapski

*Bergson was married to Proust’s cousin. †In the typescripts, these two words appear as senza vigore. See “Fernandez” in the glossary. 3 I’VE ALREADY mentioned that only the first volumes ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 4,2018 )
The Books That Changed My Life by Bethanne Patrick
epub |eng | | Author:Bethanne Patrick

FRAN LEBOWITZ on How Reading Is Her Life “When it comes to books, I’m a gazillionaire” Listen, if you wanted to find out which book changed my life, you should ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 4,2018 )
Monsters of the Week by Zack Handlen
epub |eng | 2018-11-01 | Author:Zack Handlen

| “BAD BLOOD” | SEASON 5 / EPISODE 12 WRITTEN BY VINCE GILLIGAN DIRECTED BY CLIFF BOLE GETTING OUR STORIES STRAIGHT In which Scully says po-tay-to, and Mulder says po-tah-to. ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 2,2018 )
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know by Colm Toibin
epub |eng | | Author:Colm Toibin

THE TWO TENORS: JAMES JOYCE AND HIS FATHER In his book Yeats: The Man and the Masks, Richard Ellmann quotes Ivan Karamazov: “Who doesn’t desire his father’s death?” Ellmann wrote: ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 1,2018 )
Through Vegetal Being by Luce Irigaray
epub |eng | 2016-07-04 | Author:Luce Irigaray

2 A CULTURE FORGETFUL OF LIFE The controversy began almost one year prior to the publication of Plant-Thinking. On 28 April 2012, the New York Times featured my opinion piece ...
( Category: Biological Sciences November 1,2018 )
A Private War: Marie Colvin and Other Tales of Heroes, Scoundrels, and Renegades by Marie Brenner
mobi |eng | 2018-10-23 | Author:Marie Brenner

* * * As his father had had Bunny Lindenbaum for his fixer, Donald Trump had Roy Cohn, the Picasso of the inside fix. “Cohn taught Donald which fork to ...
( Category: Mid Atlantic October 29,2018 )
Passing By by Jerzy Kosinski
epub |eng | 2018-10-27 | Author:Jerzy Kosinski

DEAD SOULS ON CAMPUS When I taught at Princeton one of my students brought me a story he had written. “I’m sure you won’t like it,” he told me, “because ...
( Category: Essays October 28,2018 )
My Own Devices: True Stories from the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love by Dessa
azw3 |eng | 2018-09-17 | Author:Dessa

Slaughter #1 — The morning of my mom’s first slaughter, I was twenty-nine, a pescatarian, and living on a rapper’s schedule—I wasn’t usually out of bed at 9 A.M., let ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 24,2018 )
The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3 by Lewis C. S
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-30 | Author:Lewis, C. S. [Lewis, C. S.]

( Category: Arts & Literature October 24,2018 )
The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 2 by Lewis C. S
mobi |eng | 2009-06-29 | Author:Lewis, C. S. [Lewis, C. S.]

C. S. Lewis TO ARTHUR C. CLARKE (BOD): TS123 Ref.46/511 Magdalen College, Oxford. 24th September 1946. Dear Mr. Clarke, Thanks for letting me know. I am afraid I can’t get ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 24,2018 )
Here, There and Everywhere by Sudha Murty
epub |eng | 2018-04-12 | Author:Sudha Murty

14 The Old Man and His God A few years back, I was travelling in Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu. It was getting dark, and due to a depression over ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 23,2018 )

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