Essays & Correspondence
epub |eng | 2007-09-17 | Author:Orhan Pamuk

To set these remarks alongside Gide’s is to wonder whether Atatürk shared Gide’s low opinion of Turkish national dress. We have no idea if Atatürk read Gide’s remarks, though we ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Longinus

• Speech on the Crown, p. 231, ed. Reiske. 'Book vi. ch. 21. plurals into some fine-sounding designation in the singular, through the astonishment and surprise excited at the unforeseen ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 16,2017 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Wood

* * * * * * T. S. Eliot's Christian Anti-Semitism • • • 1 T. S. Eliot was an anti-Semite. Anthony Julius's program, in his book I S. Eliot: ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 15,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-08-27 | Author:Herman Melville

ALS on a 22.8 X 17.9 cm sheet, folded in half, of white wove paper, watermarked with the initials “S M C”. Melville inscribed the first and third pages, in ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-23 | Author:Anne Fadiman [Fadiman, Anne]

My own power mower, George, does not understand the thrill of such discoveries.. He does not think me a lovable helpmeet when I wander past his computer screen and find ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:James Agee [Agee, James]

Speaking generally as well as of the Burroughses, the work clothes of the grown people become them as their own skins do. In their Good clothes they look stiff and ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:Carlo Rotella

“I think we’re a little spoiled,” Hasim Rahman said last August. “We make too much money too quick. We lose sight of the grand prize.” Rahman, who preceded Briggs as ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 15,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-04 | Author:Richard P. Feynman

Don’t let anybody criticize that book who hasn’t read it thru to the end. Its apparent minor faults and petty gossipy incidents fall into place as deeply meaningful and vitally ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2000-06-14 | Author:Thomas Kunkel [Kunkel, Thomas]

Ross made several runs at this during the war but the magazine never did skip any issues. When Harper's magazine published a profile of Ross, he took quite a ribbing ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:W. G. Sebald [Sebald, W. G.]

The Character of Hermann Ott For this very reason the story of Hermann Ott that forms the backbone of the Diary, and is used by the author to offer the ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Erica Jong [Jong, Erica]

Miss Honeypot Marries A Short Story Barbara Victor From the time she was aware of sex in her imagination, each act in her fantasy was perfect, the best sex she ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 15,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Hakim Bey

* * * Against the Reproduction of Death One of the signs of that End Time so many seem to anticipate would consist of a fascination with all the most ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-06-30 | Author:Chomei, Kamo no [Chomei, Kamo no]

People plowed in spring and planted in summer, but in vain. There was no happy bustle of autumn harvest of laying away in winter. In every region people gave up ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-11-12 | Author:William Kittredge [Kittredge, William]

Drinking and Driving Deep in the far heart of my upbringing, a crew of us sixteen-year-old lads were driven crazy with ill-defined midsummer sadness by the damp, sour-smelling sweetness of ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 14,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2077-08-23 | Author:Nicholson Baker [Baker, Nicholson]

How thoughtful of the Pottery Barn catalog to send its customers back on this short but fiery thematic mission, and at the same time to rescue Mary Ward Brown’s Tongues ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 14,2017 )