Essays
epub |eng | 2020-05-12 | Author:Erica Heller
Kaylie Jones is the author of five novels, including A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries, adapted as a Merchant-Ivory film. Her memoir, Lies My Mother Never Told Me, was published by ...
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Artists, Architects & Photographers
May 22,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-10-01 | Author:Sheila Heti [Heti, Sheila]
CSS: This is really provocative. Are you saying then—let’s just focus on the U.S.—that every African American, regardless of income or wealth or status, can and should be understood in ...
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Anthologies
May 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-19 | Author:Porochista Khakpour [Khakpour, Porochista]
7. Portrait of the Starving Artist October 2007: It is a fact that even a NYTBR-approved novelist can still find herself in highly undignified positions at certain times. Two months ...
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Middle Eastern
May 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-21 | Author:Zaleski, Philip (editor)
These days we trade off, one year at a hotel with my family and the next at a different hotel with hers. Though the location may change, there is an ...
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United States
May 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-08 | Author:Wayne Koestenbaum
(2015) “MY” MASCULINITY REMIX 1. In 1994, I wrote a short essay called “‘My’ Masculinity.” Twenty-two years later, I revoke my earlier version and start the composition all over again. ...
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Essays
May 16,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:William Zinsser
Central Park Lite Experiential optimization in the app brigade Central Park and I go back almost as far as a man and a park can go. In the early 1930s, ...
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United States
May 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-18 | Author:Helen Elliott
Judith Brett My Grandmother’s House I became a grandmother last year, at sixty-nine, to a lively girl born to my youngest daughter. My grandmother was forty-eight when I was born ...
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Essays
May 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-14 | Author:Karel Capek [Šárka Tobrmanová-Kühnová]
About Birdsong The People’s Paper, 9 June 1929 Various commonplace ideas about birdsong are pervasive: that birdsong is delectable, for instance. Conversely I heard the other day a lady, who ...
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Essays
May 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-14 | Author:Robert Burton
Nothing comes in so thick, Nothing goes out so thin, It must needs follow then The dregs are left within. As that old poet scoffed, calling it Stygiæ monstrum conforme ...
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Modern
May 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-17 | Author:Jairam Ramesh [Ramesh, Jairam]
Rajaji was then India’s home minister, having succeeded Sardar Patel. He would indeed retire from active public life in November 1951 but that retirement was to last just five months ...
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Leadership
April 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-12 | Author:Thomas Carlyle [Carlyle, Thomas]
LECTURE V. THE HERO AS MAN OF LETTERS. JOHNSON, ROUSSEAU, BURNS. [May 19, 1840.] Hero-Gods, Prophets, Poets, Priests are forms of Heroism that belong to the old ages, make their ...
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Essays
April 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-21 | Author:Victoria Zackheim [Zackheim, Victoria]
I DON’T KNOW THIS WORD – Rachel Howzell Hall – I WAS THREE YEARS INTO MY THIRTIES, AND I KNEW LOTS of words. Elysian. Lollygag. Bloviate. Catawampus. But then I ...
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Essays
April 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 1956-01-01 | Author:Dick, Philip K [Dick, Philip K]
“I have a feeling,” he said finally, “that due to fatigue you’re growing subconsciously uncooperative. Therefore it’s my decision that we defer the balance of the tests to some other ...
( Category:
Humorous
April 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-14 | Author:Plutarch
ON GOD’S SLOWNESS TO PUNISH [548A] [1] Once our Epicurus1 had finished speaking, Quietus,2 he [B] didn’t give anyone a chance to respond, but since we happened to be at ...
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Ancient & Classical
April 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:David Womersley [Gibbon, Edward]
[Chapters XLII-XLIX] In these chapters Gibbon’s widening vision encompasses a series of nations on the empire’s eastern and northern frontiers, while at the same time underlining grievous depopulation at the ...
( Category:
Historiography
April 19,2020 )
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