General Books & Reading
epub |eng | 2014-06-02 | Author:D'Souza, Dinesh [D'Souza, Dinesh]

CHAPTER 10 THE VIRTUE OF PROSPERITY There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently occupied than in getting money.1 SAMUEL JOHNSON, BOSWELL S LIFE OF JOHNSON ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism July 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-11-04 | Author:Jay Parini [Parini, Jay]

III. THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK consists of fourteen separate essays and sketches, most of which had a separate life before coming together in book form. There is even one ...
( Category: United States July 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Fanning, Bryan; Garvin, Tom; [Bryan Fanning and Tom Garvin]

As if it weren’t enough, Yeats was also a member of a secret society called the Irish Republican Brotherhood. I was very curious to know how he got on with ...
( Category: General Books & Reading July 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gabriel Zaid [Zaid, Gabriel]

Books can be skimmed. In this sense, only paintings are superior to books. A film or television show, although it is visual, cannot be taken in at a glance, like ...
( Category: Movements & Periods July 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2002-08-12 | Author:Nicholson Baker [Baker, Nicholson]

CHAPTER 29 * * * Slash and Burn Patricia Battin gave me a brittle book when we met one afternoon in Washington, at the offices of the Council on Library ...
( Category: General July 4,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Wendy Lesser

* * * On a quick trip up to Holmenkollen the next day, she confirms with her own eyes the class divisions in Oslo. No one is poor, perhaps, but ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective July 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Jim Bernhard

FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Four years of hard labor in Siberia might not be considered a lucky break by most people—but for Fyodor Dostoyevsky, it was a welcome lifesaver. Minutes before he ...
( Category: Authors July 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-14 | Author:John Carey [John Carey]

The most prominent instance of art-worship co-existing with disregard for the fate of humanity is, of course, Adolf Hitler. Art-lovers used to dismiss him as a mere dauber with kitsch ...
( Category: Movements & Periods July 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-09 | Author:Viv Groskop

7. True happiness may involve quite a lot of hypocrisy: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Or: Beware people who dump you by leaving a note in a basket of apricots) ...
( Category: Humor June 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-03 | Author:Lennie Goodings [Goodings, Lennie]

Chapter Nine Beyond Borders We had a little run-in with boundaries in the late 1980s. We received a manuscript from an agent who told us she was representing a British ...
( Category: European June 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Vivian Gornick

The circle is composed of a group of self-styled intellectuals in their late twenties, early thirties, who, trapped by the Depression into occupational stasis, meet every Saturday evening in Laura’s ...
( Category: General Books & Reading June 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-27 | Author:Beth Blum

LETTING BYGONES BE BYGONES Learning, perhaps, from Yeats’s library failure, and giving the lie to Martin Amis’s view of Ulysses as a “war against cliché,”88 Joyce strategically employs proverbial wisdom ...
( Category: Modern June 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-02 | Author:Thomas C. Foster

Come to think of it, we could do far worse than apply those in every artistic thing we seek to judge. I would expand the first question somewhat to something ...
( Category: Politics May 27,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2020-05-25 | Author:Thomas C. Foster

FIRST, DO THE “FACTS” SQUARE WITH WHAT WE ACTUALLY KNOW ABOUT THE WORLD? I often find myself balking at some claim that brings me up short with a response that ...
( Category: Politics May 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andy Miller

III ‘Mais ne lisez pas, comme les enfants lisent, pour vous amuser, ni comme les ambitieux lisent, pour vous instruire. Non, lisez pour vivre.’ ‘But do not read, as children ...
( Category: General Books & Reading May 18,2020 )