Essays category: 9344 books
Walking, Writing and Performance
Autobiographical Texts by Deirdre Heddon, Carl Lavery and Phil Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
This collection charts three projects by performance-makers who generate autobiographical writing by taking walks. It includes performance texts and photographs, as well as essays by the artists that discuss processes of development, writing and performance.The Crab Walks and Crab Steps Aside are...
Philosophical Letters
(Letters Concerning the English Nation)
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Best known for his philosophical novel Candide, Voltaire ranked among the leading intellectuals of the Enlightenment period. His two-and-a-half-year sojourn in England left a profound impression, and these letters—written as though explaining English society to a French friend—focus on the country's...
From the Top
Brief Transmissions from Tent Show Radio
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
“Bottom line is, I’m the kind of guy who’s happy to go to the opera, but I should like to be allowed to wear steel-toed boots with my evening suit. I like to read Harper’s with a chaser of Varmint Hunter Magazine. Maybe that’s why I enjoy a good show under canvas. Here we sit, brain-deep...
Don't You Forget About Me
Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
No one captured the teen portion of the eighties as poignantly as writer-director John Hughes. Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Some Kind of Wonderful are timeless tales of love, angst, longing, and self-discovery that illuminated and...
by Lee Warren
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Our first loves, first experiences, and first favorites are sacred grounds.
They shape us in ways our second loves, second experiences, and second favorites do not, and cannot. We go into firsts with our eyes shut, without any reservation, because we don't know any better, and our firsts become...
by Henry David Thoreau, Jonathan Levin
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Walden and Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of...
Getting Personal
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
From the man whose name is synonymous with the contemporary personal essay, Getting Personal is a rich and ambitious collection that spans Phillip Lopate's career as an essayist, teacher, film critic, father, son, and husband. Witty, insightful, deeply meditative, and self-revelatory, with his characteristic...
Bookless in Baghdad
Reflections on Writing and Writers
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
“This amalgam of essay, literary criticism, and memoir blends into a tribute to the world of books,” from the acclaimed Indian writer (Chicago Tribune).
Born in London, and raised in Bombay and Calcutta, Shashi Tharoor was eleven years old when “an otherwise detestable teacher” dictated...
Anatomy of Restlessness
Selected Writings 1969-1989
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
Although he is best known for his luminous reports from the farthest-flung corners of the earth, Bruce Chatwin possessed a literary sensibility that reached beyond the travel narrative to span a world of topics—from art and antiques to archaeology and architecture. This spirited collection of previously...
by Julian Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
With brilliant wit, idiosyncratic intelligence, and a bold grasp of intricate political realities, the celebrated author of Flaubert's Parrot turns his satiric glance homeward to England, in a sparkling collection of essays that illustrates the infinite variety of contemporary London life.
A Grace Paley Reader
Stories, Essays, and Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
One of The New Yorker's "Books We Loved in 2017"
A Grace Paley Reader compiles a selection of Paley’s writing across genres, showcasing her breadth of work as well as her extraordinary insight and brilliant economy of words.
"A writer like Paley," writes George...
The Wave in the Mind
Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2004
Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of readings. The Wave in the Mind includes...
by Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, Ursula K. Le Guin
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Since 1984, Literary Arts has welcomed many of the world's most renowned authors and storytellers to its stage. In celebration of their thirty-year anniversary, Tin House Books has collected highlights from the series in a single volume.
Since 1984, Literary Arts has welcomed many of the world’s...
Access All Areas
Selected Writings 1990-2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Adventures in going forth and staying put from one of our greatest travel writers
In vivid, urgent books such as Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, Sara Wheeler reckoned with the allure and brutality of life on the fringes, exploring distant lands with an extraordinary sensitivity to history,...