Essays
epub |eng | 1936-01-01 | Author:Steinbeck, John [Steinbeck, John]

CHAPTER 19 ONCE CALIFORNIA BELONGED to Mexico and its land to Mexicans; and a horde of tattered feverish Americans poured in. And such was their hunger for land that they ...
( Category: Essays August 5,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Wood

CONTAINMENT: TRAUMA AND MANIPULATION IN IAN MCEWAN In different ways, most of Ian McEwan’s novels and stories are about trauma and contingency, and he is now best known as the ...
( Category: Essays August 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2000-08-14 | Author:Margaret Visser [Visser, Margaret]

THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS At Sant’Agnese’s, above the roundels containing portraits of popes come the galleries with their columns and the arches that carry the clerestory walls. First, there is ...
( Category: Religious Building Architecture August 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:William James

X - The Energies of Men * [13] Everyone knows what it is to start a piece of work, either intellectual or muscular, feeling stale—or oold, as an Adirondack guide ...
( Category: Essays August 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2003-11-06 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson [Thompson, Hunter S.]

Bull Market on The Strip Las Vegas—The dawn does not come up like thunder at the Stardust Sports and Race Book on Las Vegas Boulevard. At six in the morning ...
( Category: Journalists August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Edward Albee [EDWARD ALBEE]

JONATHAN THOMAS 1993 ART CAN BE about anything, and it can employ whatever means it wishes to succeed to that intention; art must be judged by how well it succeeds ...
( Category: Essays July 31,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-11 | Author:Sarah Weinman

The Ethical Dilemma of Highbrow True Crime By Alice Bolin The “true-crime boom” of the mid- to late 2010s is a strange pop-culture phenomenon, given that it is not so ...
( Category: Essays July 31,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Various

Here ends the life of St Elizabeth of Spaalbeek, who passed to Christ in the year of our Lord 1266. Marguerite Porete EXTRACTS FROM THE MIRROR OF SIMPLE SOULS CHAPTER ...
( Category: Essays July 30,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2005-09-03 | Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

We ask the whole. Nothing less will content us. We arraign society, if it do not give us besides earth, and fire, and water, opportunity, love, reverence, and objects of ...
( Category: United States July 29,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2004-10-25 | Author:Michel de Montaigne

though he should run them both through at once. I have known desperate weapons, and conditions of single combat, and wherein he that offered them put himself and his adversary ...
( Category: Renaissance July 29,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jerzy Kosiński [Kosiński, Jerzy]

DEAD SOULS ON CAMPUS When I taught at Princeton one of my students brought me a story he had written. “I’m sure you won’t like it,” he told me, “because ...
( Category: Essays July 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-11 | Author:Valeria Luiselli [Luiselli, Valeria]

STUTTERING CITIES Use alternative routes There’s a man down there, in the courtyard of the building, who’s rhythmically hitting a chisel with a mallet. He’s been at it for several ...
( Category: Essays July 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-28 | Author:Edmondo De Amicis

“Yangın var!” I was half asleep and dreaming about this very walk towards five o’clock in the morning in my bedroom at the Hotel Byzantium. I could see the hill ...
( Category: Essays July 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-01 | Author:Patrick Olivelle [Olivelle, Patrick]

6While the barley is being cooked, he should guard it by reciting: ‘Homage to Rudra, the lord of creatures! The sky is appeased’; the passage: ‘Unfurl your strength like a ...
( Category: Essays July 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-19 | Author:Mia Mercado [Mercado, Mia]

I’m a Guy’s Girl Oh, I didn’t see you there—I was too busy watching sports and shotgunning beers. I’m a pretty typical tomboy. Also, I’m pretty. It’s confusing, I know. ...
( Category: United States July 24,2020 )