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Rocket and Lightship by Adam Kirsch
epub |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:Adam Kirsch [Kirsch, Adam]

The period of Benjamin’s adulthood and achievement was 1914 to 1940, the darkest in modern European history; and if no one ever wrote criticism the way he did, it is ...
( Category: United States July 18,2019 )
Nehru by Walter Crocker
epub |eng | 2012-07-16 | Author:Walter Crocker [Crocker, Walter]

CHAPTER 4 The Man During my years in India I kept a collection of photographs of Nehru taken from the Indian press. The day was infrequent when some newspaper or ...
( Category: Essays July 18,2019 )
Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T Fleischmann
epub |eng | 2019-07-17 | Author:T Fleischmann

… Ice is not a pellucid thing, but a disarray of fissures and air. Is not something that is cold but is something that is frozen and feels cold when ...
( Category: Essays July 18,2019 )
1970 by Karen Tei Yamashita
epub |eng | | Author:Karen Tei Yamashita [Yamashita, Karen Tei]

On the subject of racism, Marxism-Leninism, offers us very little assistance. In fact, there is much evidence that Marx and Engels were themselves racists. —Eldridge Cleaver The Black Panther June ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American July 18,2019 )
1974 by Karen Tei Yamashita
epub |eng | | Author:Karen Tei Yamashita [Yamashita, Karen Tei]

Couple of days later, Abra comes by the kitchen. “What are you cooking up?” she asks. “Take a look.” I got a giant pot on the stove filled with water. ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American July 18,2019 )
New Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby
epub |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Margaret Busby

Dorothea Smartt London-born of Barbadian heritage, she is an internationally respected poet/live artist whose books are Connecting Medium (2001), Ship Shape (2008) and Reader, I Married Him & Other Queer ...
( Category: Essays July 18,2019 )
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-12-31 | Author:Ross Gay

46. Reading Palms As I was passing through airport security this morning, the young man at the giant X-ray machine, waving me through, made an appropriately appreciative observation of my ...
( Category: African-American Studies July 18,2019 )
More Notes of a Dirty Old Man by David Calonne
epub |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:David Calonne

I figured 500-plus air might make this community college outside Detroit worth my soul so I got on American and worked the stewardesses for extra drinks. I was to land ...
( Category: Essays July 13,2019 )
Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World by Sarah Vowell
epub |eng | 2013-12-16 | Author:Sarah Vowell [Vowell, Sarah]

OBITUARIES What I See When I Look at the Face on the $20 Bill BEING AT LEAST A LITTLE Cherokee in eastern Oklahoma where I was born is about as ...
( Category: Essays July 7,2019 )
The Associated Press Stylebook 2019 by Press The Associated
azw3 |eng | 2019-05-28 | Author:Press, The Associated [Press, The Associated]

See comma. semicolon (;) In general, use the semicolon to indicate a greater separation of thought and information than a comma can convey but less than the separation that a ...
( Category: Essays July 7,2019 )
The Hot Gates and other occasional pieces by Golding William
azw3 |eng | 2013-05-01 | Author:Golding, William [Golding, William]

What I am trying to do is to add together those elements, some horrible, some merely funny, but all significant, which I suppose to be the forces of off-campus history. ...
( Category: Short Stories July 6,2019 )
The Hum of the World by Kramer Lawrence;
epub |eng | | Author:Kramer, Lawrence;

“I cannot send you the manuscripts as they are not yet finished. I have been ill as a dog. My illness has had a pernicious effect on the Preludes Which ...
( Category: Modern July 6,2019 )
The First and the Second Discourses Together With the Replies to Critics and the Essay on the Origin of Languages by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
epub |eng | 1986-02-15 | Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau [Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]

SECTION TWO No, I am not jumping ahead. I do not suddenly ascribe to man—as an arbitrary qualitas occulta—a new power providing him with the ability to create language. Instead ...
( Category: Essays July 1,2019 )
Our Only World by Wendell Berry
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Wendell Berry [Berry, Wendell]

Another way to categorize and isolate homosexuals from the general citizenry and the prerogatives of citizenship is to define homosexuality as a disease having a cause that can be discovered ...
( Category: Conservation July 1,2019 )
My 1980s and Other Essays by Wayne Koestenbaum
epub |eng | | Author:Wayne Koestenbaum

(2005) Brigitte Bardot Shopping in Shorts inspired by a Karen Kilimnik drawing BB: Thanks for drawing me in 1974. KK: A pleasure. BB: Being harassed by the press is no ...
( Category: LGBT June 29,2019 )

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