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The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End by Katie Roiphe
mobi |eng | 2016-03-08 | Author:Katie Roiphe

Updike once said that finishing Rabbit at Rest was like a kind of death. In the Rabbit books, Rabbit’s son is with him when he dies. Nelson is undone at ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 15,2016 )
Readings by Hélène Cixous
epub |eng | | Author:Hélène Cixous

1982-83 Notes 1. Heinrich von Kleist, Werke und Briefe (Berlin and Weimar: Aufbau Verlag, 1978), 483-84. 2. Heinrich von Kleist, "On the Marionette Theater," trans. Christian-Albrecht Gollub, in German Romantic ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 14,2016 )
Bookless in Baghdad by Shashi Tharoor
epub |nld | 2005-03-13 | Author:Shashi Tharoor

18 Books and Botox AMERICANS, THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM HAS IT, don't read. At least not as much as they used to. Television, movies, computer games, the Internet — all have ...
( Category: Authors March 14,2016 )
A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux
epub |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Annie Ernaux [Ernaux, Annie]

As I write, I see her sometimes as a “good,” sometimes as a “bad” mother. To get away from these contrasting views, which come from my earliest childhood, I try ...
( Category: French March 14,2016 )
The Red Notebook by Paul Auster
epub |eng | 2002-03-13 | Author:Paul Auster

13 * * * My first novel was inspired by a wrong number. I was alone in my apartment in Brooklyn one afternoon, sitting at my desk and trying to ...
( Category: Anthologies March 14,2016 )
Deceived With Kindness by Angelica Garnett
epub |eng | | Author:Angelica Garnett

7 At Home in Sussex Meanwhile life at Charleston continued, bathed it seemed in the glow of a perpetual summer. The household fell into two halves: on the one hand ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 14,2016 )
Chasing the Light by Jesse Blackadder
epub |eng | 2013-03-13 | Author:Jesse Blackadder

CHAPTER 25 The safety rope tightened around Lillemor’s waist as her foot scrabbled against the wall. For a moment she thought she was falling and the fright jolted her, until ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 14,2016 )
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism by John Updike
mobi |eng | 2008-03-15 | Author:John Updike

Fraser returns in his endnotes to worry at the issues: “Should Britain have stayed, and pacified the country, assuming the white man's burden? There are those who think so…. Of ...
( Category: Essays March 14,2016 )
Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Nancy Mitford [Mitford, Nancy]

Déjà j’entends l’orage du tambour, De cent heros je vois briller la rage, Déjà je vois envahir cent états Et tant d’humains moissonnés avant l’âge. This may not have been ...
( Category: France March 11,2016 )
Styles of Radical Will by Susan Sontag
epub |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:Susan Sontag [Sontag, Susan]

Godard “It may be true that one has to choose between ethics and aesthetics, but it is no less true that whichever one chooses, one will always find the other ...
( Category: Essays March 8,2016 )
Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Susan Sontag

PRESENCE/ABSENCE. Dance, most present, incarnate of arts, is used by Childs in the service of an aesthetic of absence. This principle was first acknowledged in a Dadaist way, in the ...
( Category: Essays March 8,2016 )
Library by Matthew Battles
epub |eng | 2011-03-05 | Author:Matthew Battles

SWIFT TOO WAS “GIVEN TO PROSE.” In his prescient imagination, however, the figure of the universal library rose prematurely into view; before Swift could satirize it, he had to invent ...
( Category: General March 6,2016 )
The Lyrical in Epic Time: Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists Through the 1949 Crisis by David Der-wei Wang
epub | | 2015-01-12 | Author:David Der-wei Wang

The action and costuming of the roles in Chinese drama indicate that they are not figures of reality. Objectively speaking, they can be likened to puppets, to ghosts; subjectively, they ...
( Category: Poetry March 2,2016 )
Slaughterhouse 90210 by Maris Kreizman
epub |eng | 2015-08-11 | Author:Maris Kreizman

Mary Gaitskill / Boogie Nights (here) Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic 1997 film about a rising (pun intended) porn actor starred Mark Wahlberg, who was previously best known for being the ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 2,2016 )
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-09-22 | Author:Hannah Arendt [Arendt, Hannah]

IX : Deportations from the Reich—Germany, Austria, and the Protectorate Between the Wannsee Conference in January, 1942, when Eichmann felt like Pontius Pilate and washed his hands in innocence, and ...
( Category: Holocaust February 29,2016 )

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