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Now Playing at the Valencia by Stephen Hunter
epub |eng | 2005-07-15 | Author:Stephen Hunter

An enraged world, driven by an enraged media, demands justice for the baby killers. An administration of professional appeasers (no names, please) demands that Childers take the sole blame. Childers ...
( Category: Essays March 16,2020 )
Seven Voices by Rita Guibert
epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Rita Guibert

An absolutely visual poem, but it flows, glides and dissolves…In our language, Oriental literature, especially haiku, appears in the work of the Mexican José Juan Tablada. The two initiators of ...
( Category: Essays March 16,2020 )
Monsieur De Phocas (Decadence From Dedalus) by Jean Lorrain
epub |eng | 2013-09-11 | Author:Jean Lorrain [Lorrain, Jean]

THE SPHINX 9 November 1898 Thomas Welcome has just left me. I am still under his spell and yet, at the same time, I feel fearful. Thomas Welcome took a ...
( Category: European March 16,2020 )
Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities by Marian Keyes
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-01-06 | Author:Marian Keyes [Keyes, Marian]

Reversing Around Corners Some time ago I wrote about how I was learning to drive. I wasn’t very good but I was doing my best, so when Barbara, my driving ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic March 15,2020 )
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs Frederick Douglass
epub |eng | 2019-01-13 | Author:Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass

C HAPTER II My master’s family consisted of two sons, Andrew and Richard; one daughter, Lucretia, and her husband, Captain Thomas Auld. They lived in one house, upon the home ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 15,2020 )
From Our Land to Our Land by Luis J. Rodriguez
epub |eng | 2019-12-14 | Author:Luis J. Rodriguez

Xicanx can find home in Tokyo, this faraway, startling city, at least at the level of culture. Since I visited there, I’ve found out there are cholo/lowriding subcultures in Thailand, ...
( Category: Essays March 15,2020 )
Sidney: Astrophil and Stella by Philip Sidney
epub |eng | 2017-07-29 | Author:Philip Sidney

Love by sure proof I may call thee unkind, That giv’st no better ear to my just cries: Thou whom to me such my good turns should bind, As I ...
( Category: Renaissance March 15,2020 )
Most of What Follows is True by Michael Crummey
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Crummey [Michael Crummey]

BUT WHAT DOES IT MATTER, you may be asking? So what if he gets the details wrong? Does it hurt anything that naive readers will come away from this book ...
( Category: Essays March 15,2020 )
A Literary Education and Other Essays by Joseph Epstein
epub |eng | 2014-04-09 | Author:Joseph Epstein [Epstein, Joseph]

Part Five Education A Case of Academic Freedom (1986) My office in the English Department at Northwestern University is in University Hall, an American gothic joke of a building whose ...
( Category: Essays March 15,2020 )
Movie Journal by Jonas Mekas
epub |eng | 2016-04-18 | Author:Jonas Mekas

ON JERRY JOFFEN AND THE “PERIOD OF EMERGENCE” Still, there are aspects that remain ungraspable, unfamiliar to the uninitiated. Take, for instance, something that could be called the “period of ...
( Category: Essays March 15,2020 )
The New Minnesotans by Gregg Aamot
epub |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Gregg Aamot

AP/World Wide Photos Ahmed Wassie LIVING IN DENIAL Ethiopians Take on HIV/AIDS Redwan Hamza, reclining deep in his chair and clasping his hands behind his head, brushed aside my complaints ...
( Category: Essays March 15,2020 )
Venetian Curiosities by Donna Leon
epub |eng | 2012-04-02 | Author:Donna Leon [Leon, Donna]

The Truth Is What You Choose It to Be ANY FOREIGNER WHO lives in Italy long enough (ten minutes will suffice) will come upon the word dietrologia. Roughly translated, this ...
( Category: Essays March 15,2020 )
Language and Silence by George Steiner
epub |eng | | Author:George Steiner

TWO TRANSLATIONS No, no, my friend, we’re off! Six months have passed since Father heard the ocean howl and cast his galley on the Aegean’s skull-white froth. Listen! The blank ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 14,2020 )
The John McPhee Reader by John McPhee
epub |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:John McPhee

Encounters with the Archdruid The designer’s logo for this volume shows three delta triangles perched on a line above a fulcrum of one triangle: . That equation starkly depicts McPhee’s ...
( Category: Essays March 14,2020 )
A Cynic Looks at Life by Ambrose Bierce
epub |eng | | Author:Ambrose Bierce [Bierce, Ambrose]

IMMORTALITY The desire for life everlasting has commonly been affirmed to be universal--at least that is the view taken by those unacquainted with Oriental faiths and with Oriental character. Those ...
( Category: Anthologies March 14,2020 )

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