Essays
epub |eng | 2015-08-05 | Author:Soren Kierkegaard [Kierkegaard, Soren]

Luther makes a good distinction in the sermon on the Second Sunday after Epiphany (Epistle) between reproving or punishing and damning. The one who damns wants the evil to come ...
( Category: Existentialism November 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-24 | Author:Deng Thiak Adut & Ben Mckelvey [Thiak Adut, Deng]

Chapter Eight SOME TO JUSTICE, SOME TO FATE After the peace was signed into law, many of the Sudanese who had run to Australia planned their return. The peace agreement ...
( Category: Essays November 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-22 | Author:Lawrence Wright

POSTSCRIPT Many of the people I interviewed in this piece are now in exile, along with millions of other Syrians. Ossama Mohammed is in Paris. Orwa Nyrabia was arrested and ...
( Category: Middle Eastern November 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Frank Kermode

There’s something in his soul O’er which his melancholy sits on brood, And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose Will be some danger … (iii.1.166 ff) This has ...
( Category: Essays September 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-16 | Author:Joyce Carol Oates

That there was something inside Fern I didn’t know. That I didn’t know her in the way I’d always thought I did. That Fern had secrets and not the good ...
( Category: Modern September 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-08 | Author:Sayed Kashua [Kashua, Sayed]

MEET THE AUTHOR June 11, 2010 I’m sorry. You’ll have to forgive me. I’m under a lot of pressure. Though I have never been considered a particularly calm person, during ...
( Category: Essays September 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Mark Greif

Another obstacle to identifying with hip-hop at the moment it was turning into an epochal art form was the lethal quality of African-American city life in the late 1980s and ...
( Category: Modern September 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 1990-12-31 | Author:Immanuel Kant

( Category: Renaissance August 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Malu Halasa [Malu Halasa, Zaher Omareen and Nawara Mahfoud]

Yazbek’s narrative brims with stark images. One, for example, describes security forces attacking a funeral, shooting and critically injuring three pallbearers, causing the mourners to flee, leaving the coffin alone ...
( Category: African August 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-01 | Author:A. S. Byatt

Quando tornai a Venezia fui indotto a ricercare gli antichi metodi della stampa su stoffe. Le scoperti fatte da Angelo Mosso su Creta furono di grande incentivo a tentare alcune ...
( Category: Essays August 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-03 | Author:Jenny Diski

After waiting that long week for the results of my post-chemo scan, the answer to the hovering question about the effect it had on the tumour in my lung and ...
( Category: Essays August 4,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Moor

* * * I. “Champion,” also called “champaign,” is an antiquated term for open, level country. It has the same root as “campus.” II. When the Cherokees were forced to ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays July 19,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Cynthia Ozick

Transcending the Kafkaesque How, after all, does one dare, how can one presume? Franz Kafka, named for the fallen crown of a defunct empire, has himself metamorphosed into an empire ...
( Category: Modern July 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ray Bradbury

THE HUNCHBACK, THE PHANTOM, THE MUMMY, AND ME (UNDATED) My favorite horror films have haunted my entire life. They have inhabited me so that when I wrote A Graveyard for ...
( Category: Essays July 4,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-12-07 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

Chapter 3 ‘There are three stages in your reintegration,’ said O’Brien. ‘There is learning, there is understanding, and there is acceptance. It is time for you to enter upon the ...
( Category: British & Irish June 27,2016 )