Essays
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-11-14 | Author:S Hussain Zaidi [Zaidi, S Hussain]
Yeba Yaqub When Tiger had begun assembling his group, Yaqub, swept by a wave of enthusiasm, had pledged his support, though he had not known precisely how he could help. ...
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India
February 7,2015 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-01 | Author:Rick Riordan [Riordan, Rick]
Unsatisfactory (Grade = D) Only mildly better than the actively evil parents are the negligent ones. Thalia’s mom falls into this category. All we know about her is that she ...
( Category:
History & Criticism
February 6,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:nplusone
THE FACE OF SEUNG-HUI CHO Wesley Yang The first school shooter of the 1990s was an Asian boy who played the violin. I laughed when I heard an account of ...
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Essays
February 5,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 1998-04-06 | Author:Alice Walker [Walker, Alice]
Standing near my house, in a forest that was once ravaged by poorly paid loggers intent on making a profit for rich thieves who do not respect the planet, and ...
( Category:
African-American Studies
February 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-28 | Author:Dmitry Samarov
As we near downtown Downers Grove, the happy couple reappears in a more or less standard passenger’s pose; seated upright, that is. We get stuck at the rail crossing, where ...
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Essays
January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-21 | Author:Michel de Montaigne
And when we others do foolishly fear a kind of death, when as we have already passed and daily pass so many others. For not only (as Heraclitus said) the ...
( Category:
Renaissance
January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Paul Theroux
MATTHEW POWER Excuse Us While We Kiss the Sky FROM GQ AS SINGAPORE AIRLINES Flight 322 descended through the early-morning haze toward Heathrow, Bradley L. Garrett, PhD—just Brad to his ...
( Category:
Travel
January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Iceberg Slim
During my long, idiotic quest for something for nothing, I met under nonsociable conditions in four penitentiaries an army of hacks, bulls, screws—prison guards. At least ninety-eight percent of them ...
( Category:
African-American Studies
January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Hofmann
ZBIGNIEW HERBERT Zbigniew Herbert died in 1998. He was a very great and idiosyncratic poet—something in me wants to say a peerless poet—and, it is reported, a perennial Nobel bridesmaid. ...
( Category:
German
January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Cynthia Ozick [Ozick, Cynthia]
Henry James, Tolstoy, and My First Novel ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, the day President John Kennedy was assassinated, I wrote the last words of Trust, my first novel. I had ...
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Essays
January 29,2015 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-07-24 | Author:Sylvia Plath
Day of Success Ellen was on her way to the bedroom with an armload of freshly folded nappies when the phone rang, splintering the stillness of the crisp autumn morning. ...
( Category:
Poetry
January 29,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Hall, Donald [Hall, Donald]
I was forty before I smoked a cigarette, about the time the surgeon general issued his fuddy-duddy warning. I was a college teacher, separated from my wife, and had entered ...
( Category:
Themes & Styles
January 29,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-01-28 | Author:Hermann Hesse [Hermann Hesse]
THINKING BACK The hills are purple with heathery sheen. The branches of the brown broom sway. But who knows now how rich and green The forest was in May? Who ...
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Essays
January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Ron Rosenbaum
PART SEVEN THE DEICIDE ACCUSATION NAT HENTOFF Who Did Kill Christ? LENNY BRUCE USED TO TELL, in his act, about a Jew who was weary not only of being called ...
( Category:
Discrimination & Racism
January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-30 | Author:Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers & Swells
WHAT, EXACTLY, IS MODERN? ALDOUS HUXLEY FROM MAY 1925 At a café in Siena I once got into conversation with an Italian medical student. Like most of his compatriots, he ...
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Essays
January 29,2015 )
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