Essays
epub |eng | 2010-03-15 | Author:Edmund Burke

( Category: History & Theory March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2004-03-01 | Author:Wendy Lesser [Lesser, Wendy]

ITALIAN Limpid, Blue, Poppy M. J. Fitzgerald In early 1959, while we were living in a small seaside town along the Ligurian coast, Italian television made a documentary of us. ...
( Category: European March 2,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2012-07-04 | Author:Hector Abad [Abad, Hector]

THERE ARE SORROWS that plunge you, irremediably, into the deepest despair. And the grief is so complete that you are yourself shocked at suffering so and being able to stand ...
( Category: Essays March 2,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Alistair Cooke

The Presidential Ear 8 December 1978 The newspapers and the television commentators have just paid their annual respects – or regrets – to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on ...
( Category: Elections March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-21 | Author:Edmund White [EDMUND WHITE]

And all this a decade before Susan Sontag’s essay “Notes on Camp,” in which she spoke of camp as an effort to rescue failed glamour. There were many reasons Isherwood’s ...
( Category: Authors March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:David Rakoff

Walk This Way State legislators were called back to Albany from their summer vacations for an emergency economic session to make ready for a lean stint that David A. Paterson, ...
( Category: Essays March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Gregory

CHAPTER 6 Humility Who Would You Be if You Lost Your Job? How do you tell your children you’ve lost your job? That’s a question I asked myself many times ...
( Category: Religious March 1,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-24 | Author:Bill Watkins

Just before the start of the next short day, I take a walk around the narrow stone-laid streets of the picturesque town. Lerwick looks like it grew from the living ...
( Category: Essays March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Talbot Mundy

After five minutes he shouted for Tugendheim, and the German went down the slope visibly annoyed by the four guards who kept their bayonets within a yard of his back. ...
( Category: Essays March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Zen Kōans

54. Yen-t‘ou’s Two Meals When Ch‘in-shan paid a visit to Yen-t‘ou, who was living in quiet seclusion, he asked, “Brother, are you getting two meals reguarly?” “The fourth son of ...
( Category: Zen Philosophy February 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-19 | Author:Meredith Maran

Sue Monk Kidd’s Wisdom for Memoir Writers No matter how much you’ve written or published, hold on to the part of yourself that feels like a beginner. As the Zen ...
( Category: Essays February 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-06 | Author:Milind Soman

4 SCREEN TIME ‘The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day, I was told I was an actor.’ ...
( Category: Essays February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sid Holt

The Atlantic FINALIST—COLUMNS AND COMMENTARY In these three columns for The Atlantic, Caitlin Flanagan explores the intersection of gender and power in modern-day America, at least in part by recalling ...
( Category: Essays February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-23 | Author:Nick Haramis

Adasendis De La Cruz NINTH-GRADER I’m in love with a sport most girls don’t play. When I was younger, my father and I watched boxing matches on TV, and I ...
( Category: Essays February 28,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Will Herberg [Herberg, Will]

V In 1953 the Catholic Church in America39 counted about 31,500,000 members in 105 dioceses and 26 archdioceses. They constituted some 20 per cent of the American people and nearly ...
( Category: Sociology February 28,2020 )