Essays
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-08-11 | Author:Heather Christle

In his book, Frey speculates that “higher levels [of the hormone prolactin] may account in part for the fact that women shed tears more often and more readily than men.”120 ...
( Category: United States February 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-10 | Author:Daniel Mallory Ortberg

One of the things I’d feared most about starting testosterone therapy was the idea of losing my hair, that I might arrive to manhood late enough that its first fruits ...
( Category: Celebrity & Popular Culture February 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-17 | Author:Albert Murray

II For several years before Baldwin’s articles, Richard Wright was a famous U.S. Negro expatriate living in Paris among the most famous French existentialists, who then were having a field ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 6,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-02-02 | Author:Narendra Modi [Modi, Narendra]

( Category: Essays January 26,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kyle Chayka

3 - III Before everything got so noisy, daily silences could be overbearing. There was so much silence that one late nineteenth-century composer took it upon himself to fill it ...
( Category: Cleaning, Caretaking & Relocating January 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-20 | Author:Udo Grashoff

The young woman used the pesticide E605 to take her own life. This poison had become notorious a few years earlier as a 'dead certain' suicide method after massive press ...
( Category: Suicide January 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-24 | Author:Heather O'Neill & Kit Dobson [O'Neill, Heather & Dobson, Kit]

LESSON 8 Crime Does Pay WHEN HE WAS YOUNG, my dad had been a great criminal. He was very proud of these years. Not having pursued a life of crime ...
( Category: Essays January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-30 | Author:Adam Hochschild [Hochschild, Adam]

* * * * As with many Indian cities, in recent years its name has been restored to its original form in the local language, Thiruvananthapuram. THIRTEEN The Brick Master ...
( Category: Essays January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-02 | Author:Lise Funderburg & Lise Funderburg

Now it is 2018; I am fifty-eight. I’m sitting at her kitchen table, the same white table in the same white kitchen in the same white split-level, imploring my mother ...
( Category: Essays January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Stan Grant (author) [Grant, Stan]

These storytellers of exile speak to me. If I am Aboriginal, then read through my eyes they become ‘Aboriginal’ writers—they help explain my world. Glissant is an ‘Aboriginal’ writer. He ...
( Category: Essays January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Desan, Philippe; Rendall, Steven; Neal, Lisa [Desan, Philippe; Rendall, Steven; Neal, Lisa]

The Essais “Castigated and Brought into Harmony with the Opinions of the Monkish Doctors” Montaigne writes that when he first entered Rome on November 30, 1580, his book was “taken” ...
( Category: Renaissance January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Sarah Ferguson [Ferguson, Sarah]

I can hear echoes of Philip Larkin throughout this story. I wrote to Larkin as a teenager on decorated notepaper, questioning his bleak view on life. He replied from his ...
( Category: Essays January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Francis Spufford [Spufford, Francis]

(2013) WHAT CAN SCIENCE FICTION TELL US ABOUT GOD? Speaking as a reader of SF who also happens to be a church-going believer – not much, really. Part of the ...
( Category: Essays January 19,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-08-24 | Author:Daniel Defoe & Pat Rodgers

Clement VII 4 Saints. St. Egwin. St. Dunstan. St. Oswald. St. Wolstan. 11 Archbishops. St. Dunstan. St. Oswald Adulf. St. Wolstan. Aldred. Grey. Bourcher. Wittelry. Heath. Sands. Whitgift. | | ...
( Category: Essays January 18,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sheila Heti

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 ...
( Category: Anthologies January 18,2020 )