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Imaginary homelands: essays and criticism, 1981-1991
By 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)
By 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
By Bronwen Wallace, Joanne Page. 1992
Exploded view: observations on reading, writing and life
By 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
By James Salter, Kay Eldredge Salter. 2017
Essays after eighty
By 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)
By Henry David Thoreau. 2010
Fragiles lumières de la terre: écrits divers, 1942-1970 (Prose entière)
By Gabrielle Roy. 1978
Heart's desire: the best of Edward Hoagland : essays from twenty years
By 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.Ethel Wilson: stories, essays, and letters
By Ethel Wilson, David Stouck. 1987
Ethel Wilson, best-known for "Swamp angel" (DC00685), did not write her first novel until she was 60 years old. This…
book includes six essays on Canadian literature and writing, nine short stories and Ethel's correspondence to her editor and other writers, such as Earle Birney and Margaret Laurence. 1987. Uniform title: Selections.Farther away: Essays
By 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
By 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.Selected works by eight diverse postmodern poets. Presents a profile of each author and describes social and literary ties among…
them. Conarroe traces a pattern of mental disturbances, as well as creative genius, that he believes these artists share to varying degrees. 1997, c1994.Dropped threads 3: beyond the small circle
By 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
By 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.Crisp blue edges: indigenous creative non-fiction (Crisp Blue Edges Ser.)
By Ed Marsden Rasunah, Rasunah Marsden. 2000
This is the first anthology of the emerging genre of Indigenous creative non-fiction. The work gathered spans a wide range…
of formats and style, from essay, biography, story, and prose to journalism, making it an important collection of Aboriginal literature that defies convention and established boundaries. 2000.Cries of the spirit: a celebration of women's spirituality
By Editor Sewell Marilyn. 1991
More than three hundred selections of poetry and prose by women authors, all addressing religion and spirituality. Sections such as…
"Mothering", "Generations", "The Will toward the Good", and "Images of the Divine" include works by Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Sexton, and others. 1991.Christmas in Canada: a celebration of stories from past to present
By Rick Book. 2003
Twenty-four stories re-examine Christmas Past, challenging, moving and encouraging the reader to discover toe true meaning of the holiday season.…
One tale is of Father Jean de Brébeuf, who composed the Huron Carol to win over Native peoples in the 17th century. Another is about a lightkeeper's wife in Nova Scotia for whom the storms of Christmas Eve bring an inexplicable visitation. 2003.Collected essays, journalism and letters of George Orwell: My Country, Right Or Left, 1940-1943
By 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
By 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.