Essays
epub |eng | 2017-02-21 | Author:Bradford Morrow

*** James Tiptree Jr. P.O. Box 315 McLean VA. 22101 S.F.W.A. 4 Dec 76 Dear Joanna, To say that this is a hard letter to write would be the understatement ...
( Category: Anthologies May 21,2017 )
epub | | 2010-01-21 | Author:Leo Tolstoy [Tolstoy, Leo]

Chapter 8 If it be admitted that the doctrine of Jesus is perfectly reasonable, and that it alone can give to men true happiness, what would be the condition of ...
( Category: Essays May 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-07 | Author:John Berger [Berger, John]

For me it epitomised warmth. Warmth of two kinds. The warmth which such thick wool, when worn, proffers the baby. (Last night it was -15ºC outside.) And the sentimental warmth ...
( Category: Essays May 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-17 | Author:John Berger

6. Waterfront all night Hudson coughs in bed I try to sleep my country is a hide nailed to wood the wind of my soul rushes out of horizons I ...
( Category: Poetry May 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2002-11-06 | Author:David Lodge [David Lodge]

Furthermore, Forster grafted onto the form of the well-made traditional novel a subtle use of symbolic patterning, the repetition-with-variation of resonant phrases and images, which he himself called, in his ...
( Category: General May 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-10 | Author:Sarah Gerard

We wear plastic gloves and greet each person. Again I serve grits. Some people ask for the grits on top of their eggs. Some crack jokes. Some prefer not to ...
( Category: Authors May 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:James Baldwin [Baldwin, James]

Between the night and the morning of April 3–4, in 1967, a Marine, Michael E. Kroll, was murdered on West 3rd Street, in Greenwich Village. He was killed, according to ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 1954-01-01 | Author:James Baldwin [Baldwin, James]

8. In Search of a Majority: An Address I AM SUPPOSED TO SPEAK THIS evening on the goals of American society as they involve minority rights, but what I am ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 28,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Franzen

When Elizabeth and I reached our hotel in Alajuela, we walked into the reception area and gave our names to the man at the desk. In a barely audible voice ...
( Category: Anthologies March 22,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-04 | Author:Bertrand Russell

* * * HOW PEOPLE ECONOMISE When a family has less money than it used to have, it has to settle in what directions to economise. The choice which people ...
( Category: Essays March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-26 | Author:Paul Auster

CHRISTMAS MORNING, 1949 A LIGHT DRIZZLE WAS FALLING as my sister Jill and I ran out of the Methodist Church, eager to get home and play with the presents Santa ...
( Category: United States March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Jeanette Winterson [Winterson, Jeanette]

And it is exactness. Art always dresses for dinner. Does this seem stuffy in the jeans and T-shirt days of popular culture? Perhaps, but without a formal space art cannot ...
( Category: Criticism March 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-21 | Author:Mary Oliver

5. Poe’s work is exquisitely and opulently constructed; the narratives have a fascination that is a sure-hold—a quality that, for lack of another word, one might simply call entertainment. They ...
( Category: Essays March 16,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-11-28 | Author:Caitlin Moran

Slash & Burn—My Life with Cystitis Of course, you don’t need the entire Internet to bring you low, if you’re a woman. Sometimes, your urethra will do that for you. ...
( Category: Women March 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-11 | Author:Pattanaik, Devdutt [Pattanaik, Devdutt]

The vahana of Saraswati . . . Is also a hans, like Brahma’s. If you observe miniature paintings carefully, you’ll see her vehicle is depicted as a bagula, crane, which ...
( Category: Essays March 13,2017 )