Essays
epub |eng | 2013-06-26 | Author:R. F. Christian [R. F. Christian]

2 March, Yasnaya Polyana Haven’t written my diary for twelve days. I’ve felt both good and bad physically; more often bad. I’m just about surviving. I’m working on myself inwardly ...
( Category: Russian June 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-14 | Author:Ralph J. Gleason

Sonny Rollins APRIL 15, 1959 As the 1960s dawned, jazz fans debated who was the greatest saxophonist on the scene. And the disputants invariably fell into two camps: one group ...
( Category: Essays June 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:David Remnick [Remnick, David]

Now that Pagels has finished going over the proofs for The Origin of Satan, she is starting to consider her next project. This time, she is thinking about the problem ...
( Category: Essays June 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-16 | Author:Roger Angell

CRYING MAN Walking my dog last week, I came upon a man crying in the street. He was sitting on the raised stone ledge of a back-yard fence separating two ...
( Category: Baseball June 13,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-05-30 | Author:Gaiman, Neil

* * * This was written as the introduction to Kurt Busiek’s Astro City: Confession, 1999. The Batman story idea I talk about, that we came up with in the ...
( Category: British & Irish June 10,2016 )
epub |pol | 2010-12-03 | Author:STASIUK ANDRZEJ [Stasiuk Andrzej]

*** Mam siedem albo osiem lat i jest zima. Ide z ojcem cicha, spokojna ulica na przedmiesciach Warszawy. Nie pamietam, jak i po co sie tam znalezlismy, ale widze bardzo ...
( Category: Travel June 9,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Hitchens

On the Limits of Self-improvement, Part I Of Vice and Men Begin professional report and opinion here Insofar as we are able to be objective, here follows a brief physical ...
( Category: United States May 17,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-15 | Author:Ezra Pound & Haun Saussy & Ernest Fenollosa & Jonathan Stalling & Lucas Klein [Pound, Ezra]

But this transcendence of parts of speech is only the beginning of the matter. So far we have been dealing with visible acts and truths; but by far the larger ...
( Category: Asian May 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 1995-05-31 | Author:Margaret Atwood

The North, the Wilderness, has traditionally been used in Canadian literature as a symbol for the world of the unexplored, the unconscious, the romantic, the mysterious and the magical. There ...
( Category: United States May 9,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-05-27 | Author:Jean Cocteau [Cocteau, Jean]

* I have kept ‘Death’ in the feminine throughout this chapter. E.S. † Angélique Arnauld, 1591–1661, Abbess of the Abbey of Port-Royal. E.S. ‡ It needs the thundering genius of ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 6,2016 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2016-04-19 | Author:Andrew Solomon

* * * Following our sojourn on Makira, we chartered the Solomons’ only real yacht, the thirty-five-foot catamaran Lalae, to take us island-hopping. After a week of jungle climbing and ...
( Category: Essays May 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-18 | Author:Andrew Solomon [Solomon, Andrew]

* * * Following our sojourn on Makira, we chartered the Solomons’ only real yacht, the thirty-five-foot catamaran Lalae, to take us island-hopping. After a week of jungle climbing and ...
( Category: Essays May 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Dan Fox [Fox, Dan]

The antipathy to style is always the antipathy to a given style. —Susan Sontag, On Style (1966) Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole, not like you. —The Modern Lovers, ...
( Category: Essays May 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-03 | Author:Roger Ebert [Ebert, Roger]

The Best—Some Introductory Words Movie critics are required by unwritten law to create a list of the ten best films of every year, and although I avoid “best” lists whenever ...
( Category: Guides & Reviews May 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:John Berger [Berger, John]

Very frequently also they are used tautologically so that the photograph merely repeats what is being said in words. Memory is not unilinear at all. Memory works radially, that is ...
( Category: Criticism April 30,2016 )