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Brian Doyle himself explains it best: “A few years ago I was moaning to my wry gentle dad that basketball, which seems to me inarguably the most graceful and generous and swift and fluid and ferociously-competitive-without-being-sociopathic of sports, has not produced rafts of good books, like baseball...

“Witty, shrewd, and imaginative essays on interdisciplinary topics . . . from Shakespeare to psychoanalysis, and the practice of higher education today.” —Publishers Weekly As a break from their ordained labors, what might the Muses do on their lunch hour today? This collection of essays...

Er ist der Detektiv unter den Literaturkritikern, der genaueste Leser, begabt mit einem analytischen Scharfblick und der Fähigkeit, sprachlich schön und elegant das Besondere eines literarischen Werks auf den Punkt zu bringen und zugleich die Quellen erahnen zu lassen, aus denen es im Leben der...

Günter de Bruyns meisterhafte Essays und Reden über "Deutsche Befindlichkeiten"›Jubelgesänge, Trauergesänge‹ versammelt Essays und Reden zur Situation der Zeit nach 1989 und zur deutschsprachigen Literatur von Theodor Fontane bis Martin Walser. Ein einzigartiges Kompendium der Traditionen und Tendenzen des Deutschland von heute.

Reconciliation and remembering are the forces at work in Inheritance of Horses. In these essays, James Kilgo seeks the common ground between his roles as a man, as husband and father, and as heir to his family legacy. Pausing at mid-life to make an eloquent, understated stand against our era's rootlessness,...

"I love being DeafBlind and would not change it for the world." This collection of essays from one of the country’s leading voices on issues facing the signing community appears at a time of troubling trends and exciting new developments. Through his lucid and accessible prose,...

Follow the author of "The Cynic's Dictionary" as he struggles with an uncooperative universe, from childhood through college to the trials of homeownership and the insults of middle age. In this third and final volume drawn from his popular online "tirades," Bayan serves...

Phoning Home is a collection of entertaining and thought-provoking essays featuring the author’s quirky family, his Jewish heritage, and his New York City upbringing. Jacob M. Appel’s recollections and insights, informed and filtered by his advanced degrees in medicine, law, and ethics, not only...

Essays über Literatur, Kino, Kunst, Familie und alles dazwischen Zadie Smith wirft in diesem Band einen Blick auf das Leben – in kultureller und persönlicher Hinsicht. Ihre leidenschaftlichen und präzisen Essays handeln von großer Literatur und schlechten Filmen, von ihrer eigenen Familie und...

Neben seinen großen Romanen und Erzählungen hat Thomas Mann ein nicht weniger eindrucksvolles essayistisches Werk geschaffen. Er hat sich von Anfang an während seines ganzen Lebens mit kulturellen, gesellschaftlichen und politischen Strömungen auseinandergesetzt, fremde Thesen in Frage, eigene...

When the multitalented biographer Edmund Morris (who writes with equal virtuosity about Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Beethoven, and Thomas Edison) was a schoolboy in colonial Kenya, one of his teachers told him, “You have the most precious gift of all—originality.” That quality is abundantly...

A WRITER’S YEAR presents 365 mini-essays—one for each day of the year--intended to inform, motivate, and inspire any creative writer to rethink their own creative process and, perhaps, find a new direction. Topics covered include idea development, turning the mundane into story detail, evolving...

The virtual realities that works of literary and visual art provide us are loosely the concern of these essays. Working methods are touched upon in some, as in my interviews with William Anastasi and Robert Kipniss. The intentionality of the artist, however, is never my concern, nor should it be of...

How might literary scholarship engage with the sustainability debate? Aimed at research scholars and advanced students in literary and environmental studies, this collection brings together twelve essays by leading and up-coming scholars on the theme of literature and sustainability. In today’s...