Essays category: 9344 books
by Paul Rhetts, Barbe Awalt
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Thirty-four authors from all over New Mexico, explore what it means to be in New Mexico—the traditions, history, quirks, landscape, and people. New Mexico artists also illustrate the book. The essays are on all subjects and give the reader a wide range of ideas and topics. This is the first book published...
The Other Woman
Twenty-one Wives, Lovers, and Others Talk Openly About Sex, Deception, Love, and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
She's been called the harpy, the Jezebel, the Lorelei, the bitch...and other choice names. In truth, she is someone's daughter, mother, friend, confidante. She seduces husbands, breaks up marriages, and occasionally becomes a stepmother. Sometimes, she is even a victim. So who is this creature who...
Studies in Ephemera
Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print bringstogether established and emerging scholars of early modern print culture to explore the dynamic relationships between words and illustrations in awide variety of popular cheap print from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century....
by Elie Wiesel
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, letters and diary entries, weaving together all the periods of the author's life -- from his childhood in Transylvania to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Paris, New York -- Elie Wiesel, acclaimed as one of the most gifted and sensitive writers of our...
The Cabin
Reminiscence and Diversions
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
In these mordant, elegant, and often disquieting essays, the internationally acclaimed dramatist creates a sort of autobiography by strobe light, one that is both mysterious and starkly revealing.
The pieces in The Cabin are about places and things: the suburbs of Chicago, where as a boy David...
Top of the Order
25 Writers Pick Their Favorite Baseball Player of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
There have been many anthologies devoted to our national pastime’s greatest players, but here, at last, is one dedicated to those, for reasons far more personal than stats-based, we call our favorites. In Top of the Order twenty-five of today’s premier sports journalists, cultural critics, novelists,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
What is death and how does it touch upon life? Twenty writers look for answers.
Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact, among...
Between Eternities
And Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
A new, exhilarating collection of critical and personal writings--spanning more than twenty years of work--from the internationally renowned author of The Infatuations and A Heart So White. A Vintage Books Original.
Javier Marías is a tireless examiner of the world around us: essayist, novelist,...
A Day in the Life of Roger Angell
Parodies and Other Pleasures
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Witty and deftly drawn parodies from a literary legend
Roger Angell has a long history with the New Yorker: the son of fiction editor Katharine White and the stepson of E. B. White, Angell has spent decades writing and working for the magazine, to which he has contributed across genres and...
by Catherine Browder, Anne Elliott, Tova Reich
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Nine long stories and essays, originally published in the acclaimed Ploughshares Solo digital series, create this third annual print collection.
Take a trip across Israel with the deceased Izzy Gam as he tries to find an unoccupied place to rest, visit a ruined hotel in a washed-up resort in...
Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase
Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
I: Altered States
The first section of the book includes essays on literature investigating the breakdown of systems and the possibility of envisioning–or creating–new spaces for agency, creativity, and critical engagement.
by Edmund White
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
A dazzling collection of profiles and interviews by the preeminent American cultural essayist of our time.
In these 39 lively essays and profiles, best-selling novelist and biographer Edmund White draws on his wide reading and his sly good humor to illuminate some of the most influential writers,...
by Pradeep Sebastian
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Notes from a bibliophile on the lure of rare and first editions, the beauty of dust jackets, the thrill of browsing in antiquarian bookshops, the bibliomania of book thieves, movies about books, and the inner life of a reader. The Groaning Shelf is not so much a book about books as a book about books...
Building
Letters 1960-1975
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
In the period covered here (1960–75) Isaiah Berlin creates Wolfson College, Oxford; John F. Kennedy becomes US President (and is assassinated); Berlin dines with JFK on the day he is told of the Soviet missile bases in Cuba; the Six-Day Arab–Israeli war of 1967 creates problems that are still...