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Essays

  • Evolvedby Maximilian Werner; John Alcock

    Torrey House Press 2013; US$ 15.95

    With startling insights, Werner explores how our Pleistocene instincts inform our everyday decisions and behaviors in this modern day Walden. more...

  • Where the Stress Fallsby Susan Sontag

    Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not Available

    Where the Stress Falls is divided into three sections: the first, 'Reading', includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag's own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva and Elizabeth Hardwick. In the second, 'Seeing', she shares her passions for film, dance, photography, painting, opera and theatre. And in the final... more...

  • Under the Sign of Saturnby Susan Sontag

    Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not Available

    Susan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative and hugely influential works she explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her now-famous polemic against Hitler's favourite film-maker, Leni Riefenstahl, and the cult of fascist... more...

  • Myself with Othersby Carlos Fuentes

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013; US$ 17.99

    In Myself with Others , Fuentes has assembled essays reflecting three of the great elements of his work: autobiography, love of literature, and politics. They include his reflections on his beginning as a writer, his celebrated Harvard University commencement address, and his trenchant examinations of Cervantes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Borges.... more...

  • Willa Cather In Europeby Willa Cather

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 14.00

    ?Not often are we given an opportunity to observe a great American writer arrive for the first time in the Old World from the New, there to record first impressions spontaneously, as they came, subject to no second thoughts, no later, leveling revision,? George N. Kates writes in his Introduction to Willa Cather in Europe.         ?The fourteen... more...

  • Forty-one False Startsby Janet Malcolm; Ian Frazier

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013; US$ 26.99

    A deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photographers, writers, and critics Janet Malcolm ?s In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer , as well as her books about Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein, are canonical in the realm of nonfiction?as is the title essay of this collection, with its forty-one ?false starts,? or... more...

  • Strange Stonesby Peter Hessler

    HarperCollins 2013; US$ 12.99

    Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler?s best reportage?a dazzling display of the powerful storytelling, shrewd cultural insight, and warm sense of humor that are the trademarks of his work. Over the last decade, as a staff writer for ... more...

  • Kithby Jay Griffiths

    Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not Available

    Kith is a passionate examination of what it means to be a child, by Jay Griffiths, the award-winning author of Wild. While travelling the world in order to write her award-winning book Wild , Jay Griffiths became increasingly aware of the huge differences in how childhood is experienced in various cultures. One central riddle, in... more...

  • Styles of Radical Willby Susan Sontag

    Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not Available

    This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics 'The Aesthetics of Silence', a brilliant account of language, thought and consciousness, and 'Trip to Hanoi', written during the Vietnam War. Here too is an excoriating account of America's identity and future, a robust... more...

  • Against Interpretation and Other Essaysby Susan Sontag

    Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not Available

    A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and Other Essays is the definitive collection of Susan Sontag's best known and important works published in Penguin Modern Classics. Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made... more...