Literary Non-Fiction - Essays
'What is an Apparatus?' and Other Essays
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The three essays collected in this book offer a succinct introduction to Agamben's recent work through an investigation of Foucault's notion of apparatus, a meditation on the intimate link of philosophy to friendship, and a reflection on the singular relation with one's own time that we call contemporariness.
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06/14 Event + Book: Living, Thinking, Looking
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06/14 Event + Gift Card: Living, Thinking, Looking
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Following the acclaim of his rollicking '10 Books that Screwed Up the World,' author Benjamin Wiker presents '10 Books Every Conservative Must Read.' In an accessible, engaging style, Wiker profiles ten books that help make the world a better place, from Aristotle's 'Politics' to Friedrich August von Hayek's 'The Road to Serfdom.' Inside, you'll learn: How Alexis de Tocqueville predicted politicians like Obama; Why Shakespearewas a conservative; What makes J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Lord of the Ri…
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30 Satires
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Widely celebrated for his political essays, Lewis Lapham is a satirist who belongs in the company of Ambrose Bierce, H.L. Mencken, and Mark Twain. Over the last twenty years, he has experimented with satire in its several forms - as burlesque, pasquinade, invective, and deadpan jest. This first assemblage of Lapham's satires presents thirty pieces that hold their currency and humor against the tide of social and political change that has engulfed American society inrecent times. Written w…
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501 Minutes to Christ: Personal Essays
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Poe Ballantine's second collection of personal essays follows, and expands on, his acclaimed Things I Like About America. Ballantine's world is a crazy quilt of odd jobs, eccentric characters, boarding houses, buses, and beer, rendered in the author's by turns absurd and poignant voice. ?The Irving” briskly details the author's diabolic plan to punch John Irving in the nose after opening for him before an audience of 2,000 people at the prestigious Wordstock Festival. ?Wide-Eyed in the Ga…
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A Confession
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This Buddhist-influenced treatise on living Christianity through each moment was Tolstoy's attempt to explain his own rationalist religious feelings. Although The Confession led to his excommunication, it also resulted in a large following of Tolstoyan Christians springing up throughout Russian and Europe.
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A Defense of Ardor: Essays
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Bringing gravity and grace to his meditations on art, society, and history, Zagajewski wears his erudition lightly, with a disarming blend of modesty and humor. His topics range from autobiography to considerations of artistic friends past and present; to intellectual and psychological portraits of cities he has known, east and west; to a dazzling thumbnail sketch of postwar Polish poetry. Recipient of the 2004 Neustadt International Prizze for Literature.
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Exploring the joys of food and also our complicated social relationship with it, this title describes eating, drinking and appetite.
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A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1997-2008
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In this richly crafted collection of essays from National Book Foundation Medal Winnin poet and essayist Adrienne Rich readers are given a erudite and charmingly precise chronicle of the relation between art and social justice. 'A Human Eye' makes remarkable use of the poet's sensibilities in exploring such issues as language and its power to shape not only those who use it as a vocational tool, but also the impact it has on entire cultures and societies.Among the diverse subjects touched…
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A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1997-2008
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The volume gathers a selection of Adrienne Rich’s most incisive essays from the last two decades. The poet explores how the impulse to make art both impels toward and interacts with social change, a theme she traces through various manifestations, including the letters of poets Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov, gay and lesbian politics and poetry, and influential texts on Zionism and the Jewish diaspora. Notes, Permissions, Index. 180p.
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