Essays
epub |eng | 2012-03-21 | Author:Edmund White [EDMUND WHITE]

And all this a decade before Susan Sontag’s essay “Notes on Camp,” in which she spoke of camp as an effort to rescue failed glamour. There were many reasons Isherwood’s ...
( Category: Authors March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:David Rakoff

Walk This Way State legislators were called back to Albany from their summer vacations for an emergency economic session to make ready for a lean stint that David A. Paterson, ...
( Category: Essays March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Gregory

CHAPTER 6 Humility Who Would You Be if You Lost Your Job? How do you tell your children you’ve lost your job? That’s a question I asked myself many times ...
( Category: Religious March 1,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-24 | Author:Bill Watkins

Just before the start of the next short day, I take a walk around the narrow stone-laid streets of the picturesque town. Lerwick looks like it grew from the living ...
( Category: Essays March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Talbot Mundy

After five minutes he shouted for Tugendheim, and the German went down the slope visibly annoyed by the four guards who kept their bayonets within a yard of his back. ...
( Category: Essays March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-19 | Author:Meredith Maran

Sue Monk Kidd’s Wisdom for Memoir Writers No matter how much you’ve written or published, hold on to the part of yourself that feels like a beginner. As the Zen ...
( Category: Essays February 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-06 | Author:Milind Soman

4 SCREEN TIME ‘The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day, I was told I was an actor.’ ...
( Category: Essays February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-23 | Author:Tony Hoagland

“It is correct to love even at the wrong time” says Reece’s speaker, and this paradoxical truth, arriving in the context of the poignant narrative details we have already absorbed, ...
( Category: Poetry February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sid Holt

The Atlantic FINALIST—COLUMNS AND COMMENTARY In these three columns for The Atlantic, Caitlin Flanagan explores the intersection of gender and power in modern-day America, at least in part by recalling ...
( Category: Essays February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-23 | Author:Nick Haramis

Adasendis De La Cruz NINTH-GRADER I’m in love with a sport most girls don’t play. When I was younger, my father and I watched boxing matches on TV, and I ...
( Category: Essays February 28,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Will Herberg [Herberg, Will]

V In 1953 the Catholic Church in America39 counted about 31,500,000 members in 105 dioceses and 26 archdioceses. They constituted some 20 per cent of the American people and nearly ...
( Category: Sociology February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Cheryl Strayed

The history of nationhood is a history of boundaries marked on land. When, in the fourteenth century, peace arrived after bloodshed among the peoples of Mexico’s eastern altiplano, the first ...
( Category: Essays February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Bertrand Russell [Russell, Bertrand]

VII The great majority of Socialists, in the present day, are disciples of Karl Marx, from whom they have taken over the belief that the only possible political force by ...
( Category: Humor February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Barragato, Stefano Mui [Barragato, Stefano Mui]

of the maple tree. Squinting—a closer look, I saw myself. CASE 22 Vasubandhu Shayata said, "I do not seek the Way, yet I am not confused. I do not pay ...
( Category: Essays February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-26 | Author:Shere Hite

FAMILY VALUES AND LOVE: IS THE FAMILY’S DESIGN FIXED OR FLEXIBLE? Do hierarchy and inequality in families keep popping up because they are “human”—or is this behavior exaggerated by ideology? ...
( Category: Essays February 28,2020 )