Essays
epub |eng | 1999-04-01 | Author:G. K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G. K.]

* * * VII. THE MODERN SURRENDER OF WOMAN But in this corner called England, at this end of the century, there has happened a strange and startling thing. Openly ...
( Category: History & Theory October 12,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2000-03-31 | Author:Codrescu, Andrei [Codrescu, Andrei]

PRESCRIPTIONS “And what,” bellowed the drunken Costica, “is the answer?” “First,” replied the equally drunk American-Romanian poet, “The currency must be changed to reflect reality. The lion (leu) must be ...
( Category: Essays October 11,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-11-29 | Author:Neboli, Monica [Neboli, Monica]

( Category: Essays October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-17 | Author:Andrei Codrescu

PRESCRIPTIONS “And what,” bellowed the drunken Costica, “is the answer?” “First,” replied the equally drunk American-Romanian poet, “The currency must be changed to reflect reality. The lion (leu) must be ...
( Category: Essays October 11,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:Updike, John [Updike, John]

Iris Murdoch, too, toys with a classical model in her new book. Acastos binds together two Platonic dialogues, one of which has actually been produced in London as a short ...
( Category: General October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-20 | Author:Jean-Claude Izzo

GARLIC The first girl I ever kissed smelled of garlic. It was in a hut in Les Goudes, at that hour on a summer’s day when adults take an afternoon ...
( Category: Essays October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kunal Nayyar

I took a breath and decided to call her from the car, just to see how she would react. “Hey, I’m at the store; want something?” I asked. Silence. “No, ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-10 | Author:Lawrence Watt-Evans

I’m in Love with My Car: Automotive Symbolism on “Veronica Mars” Originally published in Neptune Noir Neptune, California—a coastal town somewhere not too far from San Diego. It’s fairly typical ...
( Category: Essays October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

Iris Murdoch, too, toys with a classical model in her new book. Acastos binds together two Platonic dialogues, one of which has actually been produced in London as a short ...
( Category: General October 11,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Updike, John [Updike, John]

The Enormous Cloud Strange, that I remember it. One day, playing roof ball—and I could be six, nine, or twelve when it happened—my head was tipped back and there was ...
( Category: Anthologies October 11,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-10-09 | Author:Mark Jacobson

11 Ground Zero/Grassy Knoll: 11 Bulletpoints About 9/11 Truth The attack on the World Trade Center, with its attendant political and moral fallout, is without doubt the biggest story I ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction October 10,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1983-01-01 | Author:Joan Didion [Didion, Joan]

I was told in the summer of 1982 by both Alvaro Magaña and Guillermo Ungo that although each of course knew the other they were of “different generations.” Magaña was ...
( Category: El Salvador October 10,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-11-02 | Author:Joseph Brodsky

IV By standing next to the woman, the man acquires her vantage point. Because he is larger than she, and also because this is his house (as line 23 shows), ...
( Category: Essays October 6,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Thomas de Quincey

May 1818. The Malay has been a fearful enemy for months. I have been every night, through his means, transported into Asiatic scenes. I know not whether others share in ...
( Category: Authors October 3,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-09-18 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov [Nabokov, Vladimir]

Edward Hyde (small) But if you lode closely you see that within this big, luminous, pleasantly tweedy Jekyll there are scattered rudiments of evil. When the magic drug starts to ...
( Category: Fiction September 30,2015 )