Cynthia Ozick, Elliot Ackerman, Linda Kinstler, Michael Ignatieff, Timothy Noah, Sohrab Ahmari, Camille Ralphs, Yaroslav Hrytsak, David Rieff, Len Gutkin...
Brilliant and unsparing essays on the blind spots and maladies of contemporary culture. Ours is an ill-mannered society that wears those bad manners as a badge not just of its moral rectitude but of its millenarian ethical ambitions. At the...Lasīt vairāk
At a time when political writing and cultural criticism have come to be dominated by an insipid and unthinking moralism, David Rieffs essays offer a bracing antidote. The writings collected in Desire and Fate cover topics as diverse as censor...Lasīt vairāk
Cynthia Ozick, Elliot Ackerman, Linda Kinstler, Michael Ignatieff, Timothy Noah, Sohrab Ahmari, Camille Ralphs, Yaroslav Hrytsak, David Rieff, Len Gutkin...
Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time. Liberties, is a collection of the most significant writers today as well as launching the voices o...Lasīt vairāk
A new collection of Susan Sontags essays about women, edited by David Rieff and introduced by Merve Emre-- A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontags writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexu...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Oct-2020, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: New York Review Books, ISBN-13: 9781681374949)
A stunning novel about childhood, marriage, and divorce by one of the most interesting minds of the 20th century, now back in print for the first time since 1969. Sophie Blind is starting a new life. She has left her husband Ezra and taken her three...Lasīt vairāk
A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of historys wounds The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayanas celebrated phrase, Those who cannot remember the past a...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Mar-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: The Library of America, ISBN-13: 9781598535198)
An unprecedented collection of the controversial later writings of the greatest and most provocative critic of our time. Susan Sontag was the most influential critic of her time. This second volume in Library of Americas defini...Lasīt vairāk
Hailed as invaluable a substantial work of political thought, (New Statesman) in a groundbreaking report, based on years of reporting, David Rieff assesses whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is truly within our reach, as is...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 08-Mar-2016, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300182798)
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A leading contrarian thinker reflects on how the search for truth and justice can conflict with cultural reconciliation The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayanas celebrated phrase, Tho...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 06-Oct-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Simon & Schuster, ISBN-13: 9781439123874)
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Based on meticulous research and on-the-ground reporting, an expert in the field explores whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is within our reach as increasingly promised, revealing the issues that hinder this mission that are often...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 26-Sep-2013, Hardback, Izdevniecība: The Library of America, ISBN-13: 9781598532555)
Includes the full-texts of four works from the author, political activist and feminist including Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, On Photography and Illness as Metaphor. With the publication...Lasīt vairāk
A second volume of journals by the National Book Award-winning author of In America shares intimate reflections on the writers artistic and political development during a trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War and throughout her film-m...Lasīt vairāk
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A second volume of journals by the National Book Award-winning author of In America shares intimate reflections on the writers artistic and political development during a trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War and throughout her film-m...Lasīt vairāk
Provocatively argues that the business of remembrance, particularly of the great tragedies of the past, are policitised events of highly selective memory. Rather than ending injustices, as we expect it to, collective memory in so many cases dooms us...Lasīt vairāk
A selection from Susan Sontags diaries (from 1947-1963) that takes us from early adolescence though to when Sontag was in her early thirties. It is an honest self-portrait which is also a revealing account of an artist and critic being born....Lasīt vairāk
Presents an account of Susan Sontags final months, written by her son and drawing on previously unpublished letters and journals. This book writes about being by her side during that last year and at her death, and about the authors own contradicto...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jan-2009, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780241144312)
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A selection from Susan Sontags private diaries written in her youth and early adulthood. It features the young Sontags complex self-awareness. It also shares in her encounters with the writers who informed her thinking....Lasīt vairāk
A tribute to writer Susan Sontag and her final battle with cancer, written by her son, relates the human experience of being close to someone who is gravely ill and evaluates the current state of cancer research and treatment. Reprint. 40,000 first p...Lasīt vairāk
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Presents excerpts from the early writings of the author, with reflections on her meetings with influential writers and intellectuals, her literary ambitions, and her criticisms of other writers. The first of three volumes of Susan Sontags jo...Lasīt vairāk
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In 2004, Susan Sontag was diagnosed with the incurable blood cancer which would kill her later the same year. Sontag had fought off two previous bouts of cancer, against all the odds, and had developed a sense of herself as somehow charmed, able to...Lasīt vairāk
David Rieffs loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. He tries to understand what it means to desire so desperately, as his mother did to the end of her life, to try almost anything in order to go on...Lasīt vairāk
Contains sixteen essays. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post 9/11 America and political activism, this title includes these essays that encompass the themes that dominated the authors life and work, revealing why she remains one of t...Lasīt vairāk
An A-to-Z guidebook of wartime atrocities details the nature of war crimes and the international laws that define them, and contains entries on recent conflicts and miscellaneous subjects related to terrorism and war. The nature of war crimes...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Apr-2007, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780241143711)
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Reflects on the personally liberating nature of literature, and on political activism as an ethical duty, and addresses the dilemmas of post 9/11 America. This title contains a collection of sixteen essays written in the last years of the authors li...Lasīt vairāk
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A powerful compilation of sixteen essays, written in the last years of the authors life, offers a series of reflections on her commitment to the power of literature, political activism, the resistance to injustice as an ethical duty, the problems of...Lasīt vairāk
