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Report copyright infringementby Wayne Miller (Editor)About Issue 33 After a double issue in fall 2020 and a hiatus in the spring, issue 33 is a larger issue than normal, featuring a symposium on Ciaran Carson, five translations folios, and poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by established and emerging American writers. The issue includes: - A Symposium on Irish Poet Ciaran Carson, with appreciations by National Book Critics Circle Award winner Troy Jollimore, Guggenheim fellows Marianne Boru...

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Report copyright infringementby Jean Cocteau (Author), Alex Wermer-Colan (Translator)In 1949, Jean Cocteau spent twenty days in New York, and began composing on the plane ride home this essay filled with the vivid impressions of his trip. With his unmistakable prose and graceful wit, he compares and contrasts French and American culture: the different values they place on art, literature, liberty, psychology, and dreams. Cocteau sees the incredibly buoyant hopes in America's promise, while at...

I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

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Report copyright infringementby Jessi Klein (Author)An instant New York Times bestseller, I'll Show Myself Out is the eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed debut You'll Grow Out of It.Longlisted for the PEN Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay "Sometimes I think about how much bad news there is to tell my kid, the endlessly long, looping CVS receipt scroll of truly terrible things that have happened, and I want to get under the ...

Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

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Report copyright infringementby George Gilder (Author)A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fullest philosophical decibel... Mr. Gilder sounds less like a tech guru than a poet, and his words tumble out in a romantic cascade." "Google's algorithms assume the world's future is nothing more than the next moment in a random process. George Gilder shows how deep this assumption goes, what m...

William Morris: Father of Modern Design and Pattern

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Report copyright infringementby William Morris (Artist), Hiroshi Unno (Author)William Morris (1834 - 1896) was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and even a libertarian socialist. His flower patterns are well-known worldwide, but his other design works such as editorial and font design are also worth watching and appreciating. This book presents not only his textile patterns but also book design, font design, posters, stamps and various artworks including painting, all of which will...

Llorando En El Baño: Memorias / Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir

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Report copyright infringementby Erika L. Sánchez (Author)De la autora de Yo no soy tu perfecta hija mexicana, bestseller del New York Times, nos llegan estos originalísimos ensayos autobiográficos, profundamente conmovedores y de una comicidad que desarma. Hija de inmigrantes mexicanos y criada en Chicago en la década de los noventa, Erika L. Sánchez se ha descrito a sí misma como paria, inadaptada y un chasco: agitadora melancólica y malhablada que se pintaba las uñas de negro, pero tambié...

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Report copyright infringementby Loran Smith (Author)Most Georgians know Loran Smith from Saturday afternoons and Georgia Bulldog football. Larry Munson would oftentimes say after a play, Whaddaya got, Loran? His colorful responses and chemistry with Munson made listening to the game an absolute joy. But, for decades Loran Smith has also either written or spoken about the things that interest us. Finally, in this book, Smith gathers his best columns. Smith's career began early enough to interv...

The Scarlet Letter: A Guide to Reading and Reflecting

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Report copyright infringementby Karen Swallow Prior (Author), Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author)Jane Eyre. Frankenstein. The Scarlet Letter. You're familiar with these pillars of classic literature. You have seen plenty of Frankenstein costumes, watched the film adaptations, and may even be able to rattle off a few quotes, but do you really know how to read these books? Do you know anything about the authors who wrote them, and what the authors were trying to teach readers through their stories? Do...

Read Real Japanese Essays: Contemporary Writings by Popular Authors (Free Audio Download)

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Report copyright infringementby Janet Ashby (Editor)Now available with a free audio download, this outstanding collection of essays by Japan's leading writers, in vertical text with translations, notes, allows readers to experience the work as a native speaker would. There is a dramatic difference between reading Japanese that is tailored to students--and reading real Japanese that has been written for native speakers. The concocted variety tends to be insipid, flat, stiff, standardized, comp...

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Turyn (Editor)An essential anthology of fiction, art and more from the experimental, punk-feminist 1980s downtown journal, with work by Kathy Acker, Constance DeJong, Cookie Mueller and morePublished between 1978 and 1991, Top Stories was a prose periodical specializing in experimental writing with a collaborative, punk-feminist ethos, edited by New York-based photographer Anne Turyn (born 1954). Turyn founded the publication in Buffalo, New York, before m...

The Stone Reader: Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Catapano (Editor), Simon Critchley (Editor)Once solely the province of ivory-tower professors and college classrooms, contemporary philosophy was finally emancipated from its academic closet in 2010, when The Stone was launched in The New York Times. First appearing as an online series, the column quickly attracted millions of readers through its accessible examination of universal topics like the nature of science, consciousness and morality, while also ...

I Seem to Live: The New York Diaries, 1969-2011: Volume 2

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Report copyright infringementby Jonas Mekas (Artist)The concluding volume of Mekas' magnum opus traces the cofounding of Anthology Film Archives and the filmmaker's ascent to international fameThis second installment of Jonas Mekas' (1922-2019) autobiography describes the incredible accomplishments of the great filmmaker's life from the late 1960s on.In 1970 Mekas cofounded the Anthology Film Archives with Jerome Hill, P. Adams Sitney, Peter Kubelka and Stan Brakhage; nine years later he boug...

Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

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Report copyright infringementby Ursula K. Le Guin (Author)"Ursula Le Guin at her best . . . This is an important collection of eloquent, elegant pieces by one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers." --Elizabeth Hand, The Washington Post Book World"I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind," writes Ursula K. Le Guin in her introduction to Dancing at the Edge of the World. But she has, and here is the record of that change in the decade since the publication ...

Short Stories in Irish for Beginners: Read for Pleasure at Your Level, Expand Your Vocabulary and Learn Irish the Fun Way!

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Report copyright infringementby Olly Richards (Author)An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners of Irish. "Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers Short Stories in Irish for Beginners has b...

Granta 157: Should We Have Stayed at Home?

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Report copyright infringementby William Atkins (Editor)From Antarctica and the deserts of the US-Mexico border, to a Siberian whale-killing station and the alleyways of Taipei, these dispatches describe a world in perpetual motion (even when it is 'locked-down'). To travel, we are reminded, is to embrace the experience of being a stranger - to acknowledge that one person's frontier is another's home.In 1984 Granta published its first issue devoted to travel writing. Nearly forty years after t...

You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

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Report copyright infringementby Zora Neale Hurston (Author), Henry Louis Jr. Gates (Author), Genevieve West (Author)A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Marie Claire, The Seattle Times, Lit Hub, Bustle, and New York Magazine's Vulture Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Nea...

Homo Irrealis: The Would-Be Man Who Might Have Been: Essays

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Report copyright infringementby André Aciman (Author)The New York Times-bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works. Irrealis moods are a category of verbal moods that indicate that certain events have not happened, may never happen, or should or must or are indeed desired to happen, but for which there is no indication that they will ever happen. Irrealis moods are also ...

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Report copyright infringementby Geoff Dyer (Author)A lavishly illustrated history of photography in essays by the author of Otherwise Known as the Human Condition See/Saw shows how photographs frame and change our perspective on the world. Taking in photographers from early in the last century to the present day--including artists such as Eugène Atget, Vivian Maier, Roy DeCarava, and Alex Webb--the celebrated writer Geoff Dyer offers a series of moving, witty, prescient, surprising, and intim...

We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World

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Report copyright infringementby Carolyn Holbrook (Editor), David Mura (Editor)A brilliant and rich gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota In this significant collection, Indigenous writers and writers of color bear witness to one of the most unsettling years in the history of the United States. Essays and poems vividly reflect and comment on the traumas we endured in 2020, beginning with the arr...

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Report copyright infringementby Tove Jansson (Author), Boel Westin (Editor), Helen Svensson (Editor)A virtual memoir in letters by the beloved creator of the Moomins Tove Jansson's works, even her famed Moomin books, fairly teem with letters of one kind or another, from messages bobbing in bottles to whole epistolary novels. Fortunately for her countless readers, her life was no different, unfolding as it did in the letters to family, friends, and lovers that make up this volume, a veritable...

Mothering Myths: An ABC of Art, Birth and Care

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Report copyright infringementby Laurie Cluitmans (Editor), Heske Ten Cate (Editor), Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Foreword by)A comprehensive, intersectional and transhistorical meditation on depictions of motherhood in art, from the Middle Ages to todayPublished with Centraal Museum, Utrecht and Nest, The Hague. Rooted in the visual arts, this book gathers a multitude of voices on the theme of motherhood. Though central to the core of all life, the topic of motherhood has long been relegated to the ...

Pietro Bembo on Etna: The Ascent of a Venetian Humanist

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Report copyright infringementby Gareth D. Williams (Author)This book is centered on the Venetian humanist Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), on his two-year stay in Sicily in 1492-4 to study the ancient Greek language under one of its most distinguished contemporary teachers, the Byzantine émigré Constantine Lascaris, and above all on his ascent of Mount Etna in 1493. The more particular focus of this study is on the imaginative capacities that crucially shape Bembo's elegantly crafted account, in Lat...

Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches, 1937-1958

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Report copyright infringementby Albert Camus (Author)The Nobel Prize winner's most influential and enduring lectures and speeches, newly translated by Quintin Hoare, in what is the first English language publication of this collection. Albert Camus (1913-1960) is unsurpassed among writers for a body of work that animates the wonder and absurdity of existence. Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches, 1938-1958 brings together, for the first time, thirty-four public statements from across Camus's ...

My Father's Letters: Correspondence from the Soviet Gulag

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Report copyright infringementby Memorial Human Rights Centre (Author), Georgia Thomson (Translator)A profoundly moving and powerful historical record - the letters sent by fathers imprisoned in the Gulag camps to their children "They will live as human beings and die as human beings; and in this alone lies man's eternal and bitter victory over all the grandiose and inhuman forces that ever have been or will be." - Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate Between the 1930s and 1950s, millions of people...

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Report copyright infringementby Valerie Miles (Editor)Granta 155: Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists 2 showcases the work of twenty-five writers in the Spanish speaking world, chosen by judges Chloe Aridjis, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Rodrigo Fres�n, Aurelio Major, Gaby Wood and guest-editor Valerie Miles. This issue of Granta is published simultaneously with the Spanish edition Granta en Espa�ol 23: Los Mejores Narradores J�venes en Espa�ol 2, in Spain and in the US.Author BiographyVale...

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Report copyright infringementby Teju Cole (Author)A profound book of essays from a celebrated master of the form. "Darkness is not empty," writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a book that meditates on what it means to sustain our humanity--and witness the humanity of others--in a time of darkness. One of the most celebrated essayists of his generation, Cole here plays variations on the essay form, modeling ways to attend to experience--not just to take in but to think critically about what we se...

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Report copyright infringementby John Sellars (Author)A short, smart guide to living the good life through the teachings of Epicurus. As long as there has been human life, we've searched for what it means to be happy. More than two thousand years ago, the Greek philosopher Epicurus came to his own conclusion: all we really want in life is pleasure. Though today we tend to associate the word "Epicurean" with indulgence in the form of food and wine, the philosophy of Epicurus was about a life w...

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Report copyright infringementby José Vadi (Author)A "must read" debut collection of poetic, linked essays investigating the past and present state of California, its conflicting histories and their impact on a writer's family and life (Los Angeles Times). California has been advertised as a destiny manifested for those ready to pull up their bootstraps and head west across to find wealth on the other side of the Sierra Nevada since the 19th century. Across the seven essays in the debut collec...

12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next

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Report copyright infringementby Jeanette Winterson (Author)Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love from New York Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson"Talky, smart, anarchic and quite sexy," said Dwight Garner in the New York Times about Jeanette Winterson's latest novel, Frankissstein, which perfectly describes too this new collection of essays on the same subject of AI.In 12...

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Report copyright infringementby Beth Piatote (Author)Beth Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary world Told with humor, subtlety, and spareness, the mixed-genre works of Beth Piatote's first collection find unifying themes in the strength of kinship, the pulse of longing, and the language of return. A wom...

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Report copyright infringementby Virginia Woolf (Author), Claudia Tobin (Introduction by)The twentieth volume in the renowned ekphrasis series, this collection of Virginia Woolf's writings on the visual arts offers a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author. Despite wide interest in Woolf's writings, and in the artists and art critics in her Bloomsbury circle, there is no accessible edition or selection of essays dedicated to her writings on art. This volume collects her longest essay...

The Fragile Earth: Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change

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Report copyright infringementby David Remnick (Author), Henry Finder (Author)A New York Times New & Noteworthy BookA collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of climate change--including writing from Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ian Frazier, Kathryn Schulz, and moreJust one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and testified that the Earth was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded history, thanks to human...