Essays
epub |eng | 2013-12-16 | Author:Sarah Vowell [Vowell, Sarah]

OBITUARIES What I See When I Look at the Face on the $20 Bill BEING AT LEAST A LITTLE Cherokee in eastern Oklahoma where I was born is about as ...
( Category: Essays July 7,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-05-28 | Author:Press, The Associated [Press, The Associated]

See comma. semicolon (;) In general, use the semicolon to indicate a greater separation of thought and information than a comma can convey but less than the separation that a ...
( Category: Essays July 7,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-05-01 | Author:Golding, William [Golding, William]

What I am trying to do is to add together those elements, some horrible, some merely funny, but all significant, which I suppose to be the forces of off-campus history. ...
( Category: Short Stories July 6,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kramer, Lawrence;

“I cannot send you the manuscripts as they are not yet finished. I have been ill as a dog. My illness has had a pernicious effect on the Preludes Which ...
( Category: Modern July 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 1986-02-15 | Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau [Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]

SECTION TWO No, I am not jumping ahead. I do not suddenly ascribe to man—as an arbitrary qualitas occulta—a new power providing him with the ability to create language. Instead ...
( Category: Essays July 1,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Wendell Berry [Berry, Wendell]

Another way to categorize and isolate homosexuals from the general citizenry and the prerogatives of citizenship is to define homosexuality as a disease having a cause that can be discovered ...
( Category: Conservation July 1,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Wayne Koestenbaum

(2005) Brigitte Bardot Shopping in Shorts inspired by a Karen Kilimnik drawing BB: Thanks for drawing me in 1974. KK: A pleasure. BB: Being harassed by the press is no ...
( Category: LGBT June 29,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-05-16 | Author:Borges, Jorge Luis [Borges, Jorge Luis]

V I traveled over new kingdoms, new empires. In the fall of 1066, I fought at Stamford Bridge, I do not recall whether in the forces of Harold, who was ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American June 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-24 | Author:Emily Nussbaum

* * * — Despite that meta wisecrack, that sex scene is genuinely steamy, and not just because it’s set in a shower: It’s the consummation of an attraction that ...
( Category: Essays June 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-21 | Author:Tony Judt [Judt, Tony]

This essay, a review of The Paradox of American Power: Why the World’s Only Superpower Can’t Go It Alone by Joseph S. Nye Jr., first appeared in The New York ...
( Category: Essays June 25,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-06-01 | Author:Max Beerbohm [Beerbohm, Max]

DIMINUENDO In the year of grace 1890, and in the beautiful autumn of that year, I was a freshman at Oxford. I remember how my tutor asked me what lectures ...
( Category: European June 22,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-06-11 | Author:Mark Bowden [Bowden, Mark]

The Bright Sun of Juche Published as “Understanding Kim Jong Un, the World’s Most Enigmatic and Unpredictable Dictator,” Vanity Fair, March 2015 Does anybody make an easier target than Kim ...
( Category: Essays June 12,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-06-10 | Author:Nan Shepherd [Nan Shepherd]

SEVEN Life: The Plants I have written of inanimate things, rock and water, frost and sun; and it might seem as though this were not a living world. But I ...
( Category: Essays June 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Anne Lamott

Near the Lagoon, 2004 It is autumn now, following a treacherous August, and I awoke this morning to find that the leaves in my heart have started changing color, from ...
( Category: Essays June 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-26 | Author:Niccolo Machiavelli [Machiavelli, Niccolo]

CHAPTER I. WHETHER ABILITY OR FORTUNE WAS THE MAIN REASON THE ROMANS CONQUERED THEIR EMPIRE Many have held the opinion—among them Plutarch, a most serious writer—that the Roman people, in ...
( Category: Renaissance June 11,2019 )