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The essays are designed for light reading, light in form but not in content. The tempo thus has to be light, jaunty with a liberal sprinkling of wit and humour, to enable the readers to sense and feel what is Myanmar and leave with fond memories. These were in fact written over a period spanning a...

Baobabs This study, which consists of experiments on society, religion and politics, points to the use of the large area of not knowing as a positive ground. Reminding us of the importance of questioning, the joy of discovery expands as an exciting way to live. While the current and...

Not simply an investigation into melancholy, these unique essays form part of a panoramic celebration of human behaviour from the time of the ancients to the Renaissance. God, devils, old age, diet, drunkenness, love and beauty are each given equal consideration in this all-encompassing examination...

Irreverent, thought-provoking, hilarious, and edgy: a collection of personal stories celebrating motherhood, featuring #1 New York Times bestselling authors Jenny Lawson and Jennifer Weiner, and many other notable writers. Listen to Your Mother is a fantastic awakening of why our mothers are...

A new collection of immersive essays from the most acclaimed editor of the second half of the twentieth century This new collection from the legendary editor Robert Gottlieb features twenty or so pieces he’s written mostly for The New York Review of Books, ranging from reconsiderations of...

Cleopatra's Nose is an exuberant gathering of essays and profiles representing twenty years of Judith Thurman's celebrated writing, particularly her fascination with human vanity, femininity, and "women's work"—from haute couture to literature to commanding empires. The subjects are iconic...

A collection of beloved authors on beloved writers, including Martin Amis on Saul Bellow, Truman Capote on Willa Cather, and Salman Rushdie on Christopher Hitchens, as featured in Vanity Fair   What did Christopher Hitchens think of Dorothy Parker? How did meeting e.e. cummings change the young Susan...

Both Pound and Williams have shown a good poet can revitalize prose style. Earth House Hold (a play on the root meaning of "ecology"), drawn from Gary Snyder's essays and journals, may prove a landmark for the new generation. "As a poet," Snyder tells us, "I hold the...

This is the final issue of a 15 volume series, and it contains excerpts from Anais Nin's unpublished diary; previously unknown correspondence by Rupert Pole; essays on Nin, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Gonzalo More, Helba Huara, and Paco Miralles by scholars from around the world; interviews with...

This book presents selected aphorisms and essays by Anastasia Volnaya. Predominantly philosophical and religious orientation, they touch upon the most important aspects of our life, make us think and change something in ourselves for the sake of love … It should be said that the native language...

A Cafe in Space: The Anais Nin Literary Journal is the only current publication dedicated to the life and work of diarist/novelist Anais Nin and her circle, including Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, and several leading artists of the 20th century. This complete set contains all 8 annual issues, from...

As a journalist, critic, and novelist, Martin Amis has always turned his keen intellect and unrivaled prose loose on an astonishing range of topics—politics, sports, celebrity, America, and, of course, literature. Collected here is some of his best nonfiction work from over two decades. Amis writes...

W.E.B. Du Bois was the foremost black intellectual of his time. The Souls of Black Folk (1903), his most influential work, is a collection of fourteen beautifully written essays, by turns lyrical, historical, and autobiographical. Here, Du Bois records the cruelties of racism, celebrates the strength...

From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers including Cheryl Strayed, David Sedaris, Barbara Kingsolver, and more. Selected by five hundred...