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Imaginary homelands: essays and criticism, 1981-1991
Par Salman Rushdie. 1991
The seventy essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects, many dealing with…
India - the literature of the received masters and of Rushdie's contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism in America, racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression. 1991.Curry: eating, reading, and race (Exploded views)
Par Naben Ruthnum. 2017
Curry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this essay points out, a dish that doesn't properly exist…
can have infinite, equally authentic variations. By grappling with novels, recipes, travelogues, pop culture, and his own background, Ruthnum depicts how the distinctive taste of curry has often become maladroit shorthand for brown identity. Ruthnum sinks his teeth into the story of how the beloved flavour calcified into an aesthetic genre that limits the imaginations of writers, readers, and eaters. Following in the footsteps of Salman Rushdie's Imaginary Homelands, 'Curry' cracks open anew the staid narrative of an authentically Indian diasporic experience. 2017.Arguments with the world: essays
Par Bronwen Wallace, Joanne Page. 1992
Exploded view: observations on reading, writing and life
Par Jean McKay. 2001
The exploded view is a diagram which shows how each component of an object relates to the whole, and is…
usually applied to machinery. McKay uses it to explode everything from macaroons to metaphors. In her alphabetical essays she explodes language and her world view, taking a variety of things apart, from babies and crabapples to funerals and acorns, and putting them back together in unexpected ways. Some strong language.Don't save anything: uncollected essays, articles, and profiles
Par James Salter, Kay Eldredge Salter. 2017
Essays after eighty
Par Donald Hall. 2015
Donald Hall has lived a remarkable life of letters, a career capped by a National Medal of the Arts, awarded…
by the president. Now, in the "unknown, unanticipated galaxy" of very old age, he is writing searching essays that startle, move, and delight. Hall paints his past: "Decades followed each other - thirty was terrifying, forty I never noticed because I was drunk, fifty was best with a total change of life, sixty extended the bliss of fifty ..." And, poignantly, often joyfully, he limns his present: "When I turned eighty and rubbed testosterone on my chest, my beard roared like a lion and gained four inches." Most memorably, Hall writes about his enduring love affair with his ancestral Eagle Pond Farm and with the writing life that sustains him, every day. 2015.Civil disobedience: and other essays (Recorded Books classics library)
Par Henry David Thoreau. 2010
Fragiles lumières de la terre: écrits divers, 1942-1970 (Prose entière)
Par Gabrielle Roy. 1978
Heart's desire: the best of Edward Hoagland : essays from twenty years
Par Edward Hoagland. 1988
Essays on everything from wolves in Texas to welterweight boxing champions in Philadelphia. Whether discussing jury duty in Manhattan, his…
love of turtles or a walk through New England woods, Hoagland qualifies, argues, ruminates and observes. Some descriptions of sex. 1988.Farther away: Essays
Par Jonathan Franzen. 2012
In twenty-two essays, speeches, and book reviews written from 1998-2011, the author of "Freedom" explores themes of modern life from…
tourism in Cyprus in "The Ugly Mediterranean" to the suicide of his friend and fellow writer in "David Foster Wallace." Bestseller. 2012. Uniform title: Selections.Even as we speak: New Essays 1993-2000
Par Clive James. 2001
This text is a collection of essays from Clive James. A wide range of subjects are covered: from the Sydney…
Olympics to television today, from Mark Twain to Peter Cook, from Australian culture to front-page British monarchy. 2001.Dropped threads 3: beyond the small circle
Par Marjorie May Anderson, Ann-Marie McDonald. 2006
These essays focus on personal discoveries: family secrets, sexuality, rebellion, crevices of deep joy or regret; about finding connections to…
nature; about embracing forgiveness and new perspectives. Barbara McLean tells us of the sister she never knew, while June Callwood explores the continuity that flows between mothers and daughters. Other contributors include Margaret Atwood, Frances Itani, and Silken Laumann. 2006.Dispatches from the sporting life
Par Mordecai Richler. 2002
A collection of essays on sports written by Richler for various magazines and newspapers over the years. Selected by the…
author himself, these pieces cover ice hockey, baseball, salmon fishing, bodybuilding, and wrestling. They feature Richler's encounters with Pete Rose, Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe, Ring Lardner, Hank Greenberg and more. 2002.Collected essays, journalism and letters of George Orwell: My Country, Right Or Left, 1940-1943
Par George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sonia Orwell. 1970
The best selection of George Orwell's non-fiction available, a trove of letters, essays, reviews, and journalism. His letters to such…
luminaries as Julian Symons, Anthony Powell, Arthur Koestler, and Cyril Connolly are poignant and personal. His essays, covering everything from "English Cooking" to "Literature and Totalitarianism," are memorable, and his books reviews are among the most lucid and intelligent ever written. V.2 "My country Right or Left, 1940-1943." 1970.California sketches
Par Mark Twain, Bret Harte. 1991
Forty-six essays by Mark Twain and Bret Harte, written early in their careers for a San Francisco literary publication, the…
Californian. Includes a short story, "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," by Twain; recalls a visit to the public library in "Among the Books," by Harte. Also describes life in California after the Gold Rush and during the Civil War. 1991.Broadsides: reviews and opinions
Par Mordecai Richler. 1990
This collection of reviews, essays and articles showcase Mordecai Richler's outrageous remarks and irreverent wisdom on everything from pop psychology…
and male impotence to reincarnation and political wives. He also meditates on the joys of reading and the power of fiction. 1990.Belling the cat: essays, reports, and opinions
Par Mordecai Richler. 1998
A collection of essays which Richler has divided into his own interests -- books, sports, travel, and politics. Whether portraying…
heroes like Wayne Gretzky and Gordie Howe in sports, travelling through Africa, or taking pokes at politicians like Brian Mulroney, Richler reveals his passion about the world in which we live. Strong language. 1998.Bartleby in Manhattan: and other stories
Par Elizabeth Hardwick. 1983
Twenty-four diverse literary and social essays that include reflections on the civil rights movement, on crime and war in the…
1960s and 1970s, and on the work and lives of writers from Ring Lardner to Simone Weil. Movies and plays also pass under Hardwick's scrutiny. 1983.Backward glances
Par Conrad Black. 2016
Conrad Black is one of our best known writers, historians, and businessmen. Included here are Conrad's best newspaper columns on…
Canada, its history and future; the U.S. as superpower; the Middle East; the Catholic Church; Wall Street; and journalism. Also, influential columns on everything from free trade to prison reform; and unexpected delights, including a much-read column on rescued kittens. On all of these subjects, Conrad Black is an intellectual force and these are the reflections of a masterful stylist, whose opinions defy expectation and whose wit and brilliance is on display in everything he writes. 2016. Uniform title: Essays.Art objects: essays on ecstasy and effrontery
Par Jeanette Winterson. 1996
A collection of pieces on modernism, autobiography, style and painting, arguing the importance of art in our lives. The essays…
also discuss the author's relationship to her own work, and the books that she loves. 1996.