Essays
epub |eng | 2016-09-08 | Author:Sayed Kashua [Kashua, Sayed]
MEET THE AUTHOR June 11, 2010 I’m sorry. You’ll have to forgive me. I’m under a lot of pressure. Though I have never been considered a particularly calm person, during ...
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Essays
September 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Mark Greif
Another obstacle to identifying with hip-hop at the moment it was turning into an epochal art form was the lethal quality of African-American city life in the late 1980s and ...
( Category:
Modern
September 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-15 | Author:Ezra Pound & Haun Saussy & Ernest Fenollosa & Jonathan Stalling & Lucas Klein [Pound, Ezra]
But this transcendence of parts of speech is only the beginning of the matter. So far we have been dealing with visible acts and truths; but by far the larger ...
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Asian
May 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Franzen, Jonathan & Kraus, Karl [Franzen, Jonathan]
it’s like the bitter irony of my picking up Gravity’s Rainbow when I can’t write these days, oh what a mess, I find Bloom’s style revolting in hindsight, his Manifesto ...
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Essays
March 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-19 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]
Whereas newspapers once had to send their spies into the corridors of power in Rome to wrangle cautious admissions out of people in the know, today if anything they have ...
( Category:
European
February 22,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Eco, Umberto [Eco, Umberto]
He who sees it shivers with the most mysterious of shivers . . . The scaffold is a vision . . . It seems as though it were a being, ...
( Category:
European
February 22,2016 )
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 )
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 ...
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Essays
October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-21 | Author:Musil, Robert [Musil, Robert]
It’s Lovely Here There are many people who on their vacations are drawn to famous places. They drink beer in their hotel gardens, and if in addition they happen to ...
( Category:
European
July 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-17 | Author:Max Beerbohm,Phillip Lopate
DIMINUENDO In the year of grace 1890, and in the beautiful autumn of that year, I was a freshman at Oxford. I remember how my tutor asked me what lectures ...
( Category:
European
June 12,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:Albert Camus [Camus, Albert]
Kirilov All of Dostoevsky’s heroes question themselves as to the meaning of life. In this they are modern: they do not fear ridicule. What distinguishes modern sensibility from classical sensibility ...
( Category:
French
June 10,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1986-01-07 | Author:Francis Bacon [Bacon, Francis]
38. Of Nature in Men Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. Force maketh nature more violent in the return; doctrine and discourse maketh nature less importune;1 but custom ...
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Essays
March 3,2015 )
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, 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 ...
( Category:
Essays
January 29,2015 )
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