Essays
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:J. M. Coetzee

EIGHT Group experiences: music, football, ecstatic religion. Shared ‘knowledge’ within the group. Theoretical problems about group thought. The individual versus the group: personal experience in South Africa. Nationalism as regressive ...
( Category: General April 30,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:T. S. Eliot [Eliot, T. S.]

CHAPTER V A Note on Culture and Politics Politics did not, however, so much engage him as to withhold his thoughts from things of more importance. SAMUEL JOHNSON ON GEORGE ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:T. S. Eliot

Catholicism and International Order I ASSUME that we are all of one mind about the deplorable consequences of the schisms of Christianity, and are convinced of the vital importance of ...
( Category: Essays April 21,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Walker Evans

I think there is at the middle of this sense of the importance and dignity of actuality and the attempt to reproduce and analyze the actual, and at the middle ...
( Category: State & Local April 19,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:Melissa Broder

One Text Is Too Many and a Thousand Are Never Enough I’M TRYING TO QUIT GETTING high on people. It’s really fucking hard. I’m a romantic and an addict. I ...
( Category: Essays April 15,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2016-04-05 | Author:Kathryn Harrison

My job, this winter morning in Los Angeles, is to remove the tinsel that issues from the tiny, pink, puckered assholes of six white kittens that appear completely untroubled by ...
( Category: Essays April 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Kathryn Harrison

Baby New Year “I’m lost,” my grandmother tells me. She’s calling me at work, where, in New York, it’s about four in the afternoon. She’s in Los Angeles, three hours ...
( Category: Essays April 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-09 | Author:Nilanjana Roy [Roy, Nilanjana]

6 Vikram Seth At the Seth family house in Noida, Vikram Seth oscillates between charm and gloom. He hates interviews, but accepts with resigned tolerance that he must ‘do publicity’ ...
( Category: Essays April 3,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:McPhee, John [McPhee, John]

On the first morning, the camp runs one-on-one drills, then half-field scrimmages, then full-field scrimmages, while the camp’s own coaches (mainly college assistants) watch. The camp’s coaches then pick their ...
( Category: United States April 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Miller, Linda Lael [Miller, Linda Lael]

Chapter 11 Melody Ling, the television reporter, agreed to a rendezvous, but only after a little fast talking on Neely’s part. Although Neely refused to identify herself directly, she had ...
( Category: Essays March 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-01 | Author:Miller, Linda Lael [Miller, Linda Lael]

CHAPTER 11 “You made his life miserable, you know,” William said in a wooden voice as he and Calder stood in the formal parlor that afternoon. The undertaker and his ...
( Category: Essays March 19,2016 )
epub |nld | 2005-03-13 | Author:Shashi Tharoor

18 Books and Botox AMERICANS, THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM HAS IT, don't read. At least not as much as they used to. Television, movies, computer games, the Internet — all have ...
( Category: Authors March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2002-03-13 | Author:Paul Auster

13 * * * My first novel was inspired by a wrong number. I was alone in my apartment in Brooklyn one afternoon, sitting at my desk and trying to ...
( Category: Anthologies March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:John McPhee

Firewood FIREWOOD HAS BEEN SELLING, OF LATE IN NEW YORK CITY, for one dollar a stick. Piles of it. Right off the sidewalk. Split from small logs of oak or ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction March 14,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2008-03-15 | Author:John Updike

Fraser returns in his endnotes to worry at the issues: “Should Britain have stayed, and pacified the country, assuming the white man's burden? There are those who think so…. Of ...
( Category: Essays March 14,2016 )