Lawrence Weschler: 9 books
Vermeer in Bosnia
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
From the master chronicler of the marvelous and the confounding–author of Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder–here is a much-anticipated new collection of more than twenty pieces from the past two decades, the majority of which have never before been gathered together in book form.
Lawrence...
And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?
A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2019
The untold story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, his own most singular patient
The author Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist for his own new employer, The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published his...
Waves Passing in the Night
Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
From Pulitzer Prize nominee Lawrence Weschler, a fascinating profile of Walter Murch, a film legend and amateur astrophysicist whose investigations could reshape our understanding of the universe.
For film aficionados, Walter Murch is legendary--a three-time Academy Award winner, arguably the...
Uncanny Valley
Adventures in the Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Strange, wondrous, and moving tales of unbelievable truth from a contemporary master of narrative nonfiction.
Shuttling between cultural comedies and political tragedies, former New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Weschler’s articles have throughout his long career intrigued readers with his...
A Miracle, a Universe
Settling Accounts with Torturers
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
In recent years as countries around the globe have begun to move from dictatorial to more democratic systems of governance, no more traumatic (or dramatic) ethical problem has arisen than what to do with the previous regime’s torturers. In most cases, the security and military apparatuses, responsible...
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder
Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno logy
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers...
by Lawrence Weschler, Cris Scorza
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Award-winning author Lawrence Weschler’s book on the young Mexican American artist Ramiro Gomez explores questions of social equity and the chasms between cultures and classes in America.
Gomez, born in 1986 in San Bernardino, California, to undocumented Mexican immigrant parents, bridges the...
The United States and the International Criminal Court
National Security and International Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2000
American reluctance to join the International Criminal Court illuminates important trends in international security and a central dilemma facing U.S. Foreign policy in the 21st century.
The ICC will prosecute individuals who commit egregious international human rights violations such as genocide....
Flowers for Lisa
A Delirium of Photographic Invention
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Best known for his surreal camera obscura pictures and luminous black-and-white photographs of books, photographer Abelardo Morell now turns his transformative lens to one of the most common of artistic subjects, the flower. The concept for Flowers for Lisa emerged when Morell gave his wife, Lisa,...