A provocative letter from a prominent eighteenth-century British noblewoman, Henrietta Howard, to her close friend Mary Hervey is a rare survivor of the informal, collaborative satires created by court women in this period. This particular June...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jun-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9780803294721)
Most famous for his classic work The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn is widely regarded as one of the greatest sportswriters of our time. The Roger Kahn Reader is a rich collection of his stories and articles that originally app...Lasīt vairāk
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: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
(Izdošanas datums: 31-May-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474415415)
During colonial times the Egyptian novel invoked a sovereign nation-state and basked in its perceived unity. After independence the novel began to profess disenchantment with state practices and unequal class and gender relations, but did not disrupt...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-May-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474406697)
The 11 essays collected here take the recent explosion of interest in field recording as the point of departure for an investigation of the sounded field in music and its relationship to literature and writing....Lasīt vairāk
Following on from his gorgeous memoirs Lands Edge and Island Home, The Boy Behind the Curtain tells more remarkable true stories from Tim Winton: it is his most personal book to date....Lasīt vairāk
The shocking true story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a gripping cautionary tale set amid the bold promises and gold-rush frenzy of Silicon Valley....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-May-2018, Paperback, Izdevniecība: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674984080)
A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekOne of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, Irish, and American poets. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-May-2018, Paperback, Izdevniecība: Penned in the Margins, ISBN-13: 9781908058454)
Twenty Theatres to See Before You Die is a love letter to British theatre. Join Amber Massie-Blomfield as she veers off the beaten track to discover the pasts and present of the UKs most unique performance spaces....Lasīt vairāk
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR `For all those who believe in the politics of principle and hope this a wonderful reminder that they do not always lose. For all those who despair that politics can ever be inspiring again this...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-May-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury USA, ISBN-13: 9781635570854)
The Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and author of Insomniac City presents a collection of evocative, candid portraits of lovers, shopkeepers, skateboarders and other everyday people navigating the ceaseless rhythms of the artists beloved New...Lasīt vairāk
The seminal, ground-breaking and controversial feminist text on the menopause, revised and updated When The Change was published in 1991, `menopause was a word of fear. Then, as now, expensive magazines advertised even more expensive anti-age...Lasīt vairāk
Finding herself in a new home in Brighton, Kate Bradbury sets about transforming her decked, barren backyard into a beautiful wildlife garden. She documents the unbuttoning of the earth and the rebirth of the garden, the rewilding of a tiny urban...Lasīt vairāk
Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-May-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226306339)
The University of Iowa is a leading light in the writing world. In addition to the Iowa Writers Workshop for poets and fiction writers, it houses the prestigious Nonfiction Writing Program (NWP), which was the first full-time masters-granting p...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-May-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780241266472)
The Sunday Times bestseller Paul Theroux collects a rich feast of his writing and essays - from travel to personal memoir - published all together here for the first time Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of wor...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 08-May-2018, Paperback, Izdevniecība: St Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9781250162977)
Timely . . . ( the collection) paints intimate portraits of neglected places that are often used as political talking points. A good companion piece to J. D. Vances Hillbilly Elegy.BooklistThe essays in Vo...Lasīt vairāk
Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top of anybodys list. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable qu...Lasīt vairāk
When in 1999 I began writing for The New York Review of Books ... my stance became that of the ingenuous Martian who had just landed on a gorgeous alien planet ... Montaignes que sais-je. A little light, a little wonder, some skepticism, some...Lasīt vairāk
To begin to write - to attempt to do anything creative, for that matter - is to ask many other questions, not only about the craft itself, but of oneself, and of life. accounts of his collaborations in film and television, and above all, exploration...Lasīt vairāk
Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia Laing Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting...Lasīt vairāk
LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017 From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sportswriter comes a deeply personal account of his parents - an intimate portrait of American mid-twentieth century life, and a celebration of family love...Lasīt vairāk
From the author of Bird Sense, a biography of Francis Willughby, the man who pulled the study of birds out of the dark ages and formed the foundations of modern ornithology. Francis Willughby lived and thrived i...Lasīt vairāk
Two Dogs and a Parrot offers both heartwarming stories and thought-provoking reflections about sharing life with an animal companion. The relationships we form with themwith dogs, birds, cats, horses, rabbits, and other petsare full of joys...Lasīt vairāk
The essays gathered here capture fresh perspectives on the literary environments of the eighteenth century. The core concern of this volume is culture - the ways in which it shapes literature and is in turn influenced by it: the ways of ficti...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Apr-2018, Paperback, Izdevniecība: Oregon State University, ISBN-13: 9780870719189)
Homing Instincts is a collection of personal essays that explores the ways we define “home” at different stages of our lives. Based on pivotal moments in the author’s life in New York City and Oregon, Homing Instin...Lasīt vairāk
Throughout the ages some journalists have been fortunate or skillful enough to be in the right place at the right time as tumultuous events have unfolded. One such is the Soviet journalist and Politician Vagif Guseynov and now the first time he...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Jun-2018, Paperback, Izdevniecība: Sarah Crichton Books, ISBN-13: 9780374537777)
One of the funniest writers in America. Thats what The New Yorkers Andy Borowitz calls Jenny Allenand with good reason. In her debut essay collection, the longtime humorist and performer declares no subject too sacred, no bounda...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Jun-2018, Paperback, Izdevniecība: Clarkson Potter Publishers, ISBN-13: 9780307954916)
A beautifully written food memoir chronicling one woman’s journey from her rural Midwestern hometown to the intoxicating world of New York City fine dining—and back again—in search of her culinary roots Before...Lasīt vairāk
On the Road meets Tuesdays with Morrie in this pilgrimage by an American classic (Newsweek) to thank his most important mentors through memorable meals and conversations...Lasīt vairāk
A physician and award-winning author discusses the transitions and experiences the human body goes through during a lifetime, including puberty, childbirth and getting a tattoo and discusses the biological, psychological and philosophical natures of...Lasīt vairāk
A provocative letter from a prominent eighteenth-century British noblewoman, Henrietta Howard, to her close friend Mary Hervey is a rare survivor of the informal, collaborative satires created by court women in this period. This particular June...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jun-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9780803294721)
Most famous for his classic work The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn is widely regarded as one of the greatest sportswriters of our time. The Roger Kahn Reader is a rich collection of his stories and articles that originally app...Lasīt vairāk
Literary Nonfiction. A HANDBOOK OF DISAPPOINTED FATE highlights a decade of Anne Boyers interrogative writing on poetry, death, love, lambs, and other impossible questions....Lasīt vairāk
This engagingly personal chronicle by poet Gerald Dawe explores the lives and times of leading Irish writers, including W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, Patrick Kavanagh, James Plunkett, John McGahern, Stewart Parker and Leontia Flynn, al...Lasīt vairāk
This is a collection of Robert Allan Jamiesons Shetlandic poetry spanningthe entirety of his writing life. It contains both original poetry and poetry intranslation from many of the marginal or disappearing languages of theworld, including Hungarian...Lasīt vairāk
Why have a mere pet when you can spoil your fur baby with everything a dog could ever want! Every mom secretly wishes their bundle of joy would stay a cuddly little baby forever. For dog moms, it actually happens! This charming little guid...Lasīt vairāk
Set in the court of Urbino in 1507, Castigliones The Book of the Courtier presents an invaluable look at court life and culture during the Renaissance....Lasīt vairāk
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: Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850
(Izdošanas datums: 31-May-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781786941213)
The essays in this volume address a very broad range of E. T. A. Hoffmanns most significant works, examining them through the lens of transgression. His writings, perhaps more than those of any other German Romantic, portrayed the dark side...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-May-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781501337635)
Revisioning Beckett reassesses Becketts career and literary output, particularly his engagement with what might be called decadent modernism. Gontarski approaches Beckett from multiple viewpoints: from his running afoul of the Irish...Lasīt vairāk