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Devlok with Devdutt Pattanaik by Pattanaik Devdutt
mobi |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 )
Fallen Leaves by Will Durant
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Will Durant

CHAPTER SIXTEEN ON VIETNAM Anything written on May 7, 1967, about so fluent a situation as the war in Vietnam will almost certainly seem foolish in 1969; even the pronouncements ...
( Category: Essays February 28,2017 )
Frantumaglia by Elena Ferrante
epub |eng | 2016-09-21 | Author:Elena Ferrante

NOTE The central passages of this essay were conceived as a response to the Swedish publisher Bromberg, who, after acquiring the rights to The Days of Abandonment and reading the ...
( Category: Essays February 27,2017 )
The Givenness of Things by Marilynne Robinson
epub |eng | 2016-10-16 | Author:Marilynne Robinson

MEMORY It is interesting that this country could have transformed itself radically in the last one hundred years, and, after so much time and so much change, should still be ...
( Category: Essays February 26,2017 )
The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought by Marilynne Robinson
epub |eng | 2016-10-16 | Author:Marilynne Robinson [Robinson, Marilynne]

PURITANS AND PRIGS PURITANISM was a highly elaborated moral, religious, intellectual, and political tradition which had its origins in the writing and social experimentation of John Calvin and those he ...
( Category: Essays February 26,2017 )
When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson
epub |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Marilynne Robinson

For look in what parts of the realm doth grow the finest and therefore dearest wool, there noblemen and gentlemen, yea and certain abbots, holy men no doubt…much annoying the ...
( Category: Essays February 26,2017 )
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 by Philip Larkin
epub |eng | 2012-12-20 | Author:Philip Larkin [Larkin, Philip]

my Muse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
( Category: Essays February 24,2017 )
A Lowcountry Heart by Pat Conroy
epub |eng | 2016-10-24 | Author:Pat Conroy

The Best Night in the Life of This Aging Citadel Point Guard… JANUARY 2015 I’ll not pretend this is not one of the greatest nights of my life and one ...
( Category: Essays February 24,2017 )
My Life (The Art of the Novella) by Anton Chekhov
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Anton Chekhov [Chekhov, Anton]

X Two days later she sent me to Dubetchnya and I was unutterably delighted to go. As I walked towards the station and afterwards, as I was sitting in the ...
( Category: Russian February 24,2017 )
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence by Adrienne Rich
epub |eng | | Author:Adrienne Rich

I am traveling at the speed of time, along the Massachusetts Turnpike. For months, for years, for most of my life, I have been hovering like an insect against the ...
( Category: General February 24,2017 )
What Is Found There by Adrienne Rich
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Adrienne Rich

One rainy day in the spring of 1960, the San Francisco poet Robert Duncan arrived at my door, sent to me by our mutual friend Denise Levertov. I had a ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
Arts of the Possible by Adrienne Rich
epub |eng | | Author:Adrienne Rich

Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts After the text of my letter to Jane Alexander, then chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, had been fragmentarily ...
( Category: Essays February 24,2017 )
Nicotine by Gregor Hens
epub |eng | 2017-01-09 | Author:Gregor Hens

During the years of the economic miracle, my father, a technical expert, built up a modest but profitable business that exclusively examined fire and explosion damage in industry and middle-sized ...
( Category: German February 23,2017 )
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women by Siri Hustvedt
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Siri Hustvedt

Phantasy Land in Its Sincere and Ironic Modes The idea that immortality is just around the bend via machine intelligence has been avidly promoted by Ray Kurzweil, scientist, inventor, and ...
( Category: Women in Art December 8,2016 )
We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think by Shirley Hazzard
epub |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Shirley Hazzard

WILLIAM MAXWELL In his eighties, William Maxwell told me, “I love being old.” By then, Bill Maxwell had recurrent and sometimes serious bodily infirmities. His mind and spirit were perhaps ...
( Category: Essays November 29,2016 )

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