Title search results
Showing 1121 - 1140 of 2791 items
Essential essays: culture, politics, and the art of poetry
By Adrienne Rich, Sandra M. Gilbert. 2018
Twenty-six previously published essays by National Book Award-winning poet that explore political, personal, and poetical themes. In her 1980 essay…
"Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence," Rich explores the tensions between feminist movements and sexual identity. 2018Pushcart prize XLIII: best of the small presses, 2019 (The Pushcart Prize Anthologies Ser. #43)
By Bill Henderson, Pushcart. 2019
Seventy poems, stories, essays, and memoirs originally published by small presses. In his poem "Autism Screening Questionnaire--Speech and Language Delay,"…
Oliver de la Paz explores the interactions of a parent with a child who is undergoing a diagnosis. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2019Citizen: An american lyric
By Claudia Rankine. 2015
Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media.…
Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV-everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenshipOrwell's roses
By Rebecca Solnit. 2021
&“An exhilarating romp through Orwell&’s life and times and also through the life and times of roses.&” —Margaret Atwood &“A…
captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, parent, and endlessly curious thinker.&” —Claire Messud, Harper's &“Nobody who reads it will ever think of Nineteen Eighty-Four in quite the same way.&”— Vogue A lush exploration of roses, pleasure, and politics, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an avid gardener whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world &“In the year 1936 a writer planted roses.&” So begins Rebecca Solnit&’s new book, a reflection on George Orwell&’s passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, and the natural world illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and the intertwined politics of nature and power. Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit&’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell&’s life explores his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left), to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism. Through Solnit&’s celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers encounter the photographer Tina Modotti&’s roses and her Stalinism, Stalin&’s obsession with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwell&’s slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaid&’s critique of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of Nineteen Eighty-Four that completes her portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as a reflection on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistanceOn animals
By Susan Orlean. 2021
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Magnificent." — The New York Times * "Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny." — San Francisco Chronicle * "Spectacular."…
— Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * "Full of astonishments." — The Boston Globe Susan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer hailed as "a national treasure" by The Washington Post and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Library Book —gathers a lifetime of musings, meditations, and in-depth profiles about animals. "How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages," writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book called Herbert the Near-Sighted Pigeon , she's been drawn to stories about how we live with animals, and how they abide by us. Now, in On Animals , she examines animal-human relationships through the compelling tales she has written over the course of her celebrated career. These stories consider a range of creatures—the household pets we dote on, the animals we raise to end up as meat on our plates, the creatures who could eat us for dinner, the various tamed and untamed animals we share our planet with who are central to human life. In her own backyard, Orlean discovers the delights of keeping chickens. In a different backyard, in New Jersey, she meets a woman who has twenty-three pet tigers—something none of her neighbors knew about until one of the tigers escapes. In Iceland, the world's most famous whale resists the efforts to set him free; in Morocco, the world's hardest-working donkeys find respite at a special clinic. We meet a show dog and a lost dog and a pigeon who knows exactly how to get home. Equal parts delightful and profound, enriched by Orlean's stylish prose and precise research, these stories celebrate the meaningful cross-species connections that grace our collective existenceOn connection
By Kae Tempest. 2021
Beneath the surface we are all connected . . . This is a meditation on the power of creative connection.…
Drawing on twenty years' experience as a writer and performer, Kae Tempest explores how and why creativity – however we choose to practise it – can cultivate greater self-awareness and help us establish a deeper relationship to ourselves and the world. Honest, tender and written with piercing clarity, On Connection is a call to arms that speaks to a universal yet intimate truth. "Powerful and merciful." ALI SMITH "[Kae's] language hits like lightning. It illuminates and it burns." GUARDIANThe new york times book review: 125 years of literary history
By The New York Times. 2021
From the longest-running, most influential book review in America, here is its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over…
the past 125 years. Since its first issue on October 10, 1896, The New York Times Book Review has brought the world of ideas to the reading public. It is the publication where authors have been made, and where readers first encountered the classics that have enriched their lives. Now the editors have curated the Book Review &’s dynamic 125-year history, which is essentially the story of modern American letters. Brimming with remarkable reportage, this book collects interesting reviews, never-before-heard anecdotes about famous writers, and spicy letter exchanges. Here are the first takes on novels we now consider masterpieces, including a long-forgotten pan of Anne of Green Gables and a rave of Mrs. Dalloway , along with reviews and essays by Langston Hughes, Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, Nora Ephron, and more. Listeners will discover how literary tastes have shifted through the years—and how the Book Review &’s coverage has shaped so much of what we read todayThe Oxford companion to modern poetry (Oxford Paperback Reference Ser.)
By Jeremy Noel-Tod, Ian Hamilton. 2013
Updated second edition of a reference work first published in 1994. Contains over 1,700 entries. Includes short biographies of poets…
writing in English since 1910, covering works they are best known for and publication histories; particular groups and movements; and lists of anthologies, prizes, and prize winners. 2013Essays and reviews (Library of America Edgar Allan Poe Edition Ser. #2)
By Edgar Allan Poe, G. R. Thompson. 1984
Collection of Edgar Allan Poe's writings includes his thoughts on poetry; reviews he wrote on many American, British, and Continental…
authors; his views of the literary world he moved in; essays; and more. Compilation material selected and notes written by G. R. Thompson. 1984This bridge called my back: writings by radical women of color
By Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga. 2015
Collection of essays and poetry by women of color exploring issues including colonialism, homophobia, roots of radicalism, theory as it…
plays out in the real world, racism in the women's movement, and women's experiences in the developing world. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2015The second volume of a two-part collection of essays and reviews by the literary critic includes uncollected reviews and three…
books of essays: The Triple Thinkers, The Wound and the Bow, and Classics and Commercials. Companion to Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & '30s (DB 96220). 2007Nobody's looking at you: essays
By Janet Malcolm. 2019
Collection of eighteen essays by the author of In the Freud Archives (DB 22346) and The Journalist and the Murderer…
(DB 89364). The title piece is a profile of fashion designer Eileen Fisher and the title is a quote from a frequent piece of advice from Fisher's mother. 2019Trilogy describing the author's journey to Canada from Wyoming with a dream of owning a cattle ranch. In Grass beyond…
the Mountains, Richmond and his companions conquer the tortuous miles and carve out a space for themselves. Also includes Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy and The Rancher Takes a Wife. Strong language and some violence. 1978White flights: race, fiction, and the American imagination
By Jess Row. 2019
Seven essays examining the connection between literature by white writers and the movement of white Americans into racially segregated communities.…
Topics include reparative writing, becoming aware of issues surrounding race, defining white writing, creation of white spaces, and multiracial identities. 2019Second volume featuring critical essays and reviews of works by French and European authors. Includes the prefaces James wrote for…
the New York Edition of his works, published in 1907-1909. Companion to Literary Criticism (DB 96662). 1984Literary essays and reviews of the 1920s & 30s: The shores of light ; Axel's castle ; Uncollected reviews (Library of America Edmund Wilson Edition #1)
By Edmund Wilson, Lewis M. Dabney. 2007
The first part of a two-volume collection of essays by the influential American critic and social chronicler includes pieces written…
during the 1920s and 1930s--an assortment of previously uncollected reviews and two books of literary criticism: The Shores of Light and Axel's Castle. 2007Dad jokes: the good, the bad, the terrible (World's Best Dad Jokes Collection)
By Jimmy Niro. 2018
Collection of critiques by renowned novelist Henry James (1843-1916). This first volume features his critical writings and appreciation of the…
works of famous authors, from Edgar Allan Poe to Nathaniel Hawthorne. Includes theoretical essays "The Art of Fiction" and "The Future of the Novel. 1984The Oxford companion to classical literature (Oxford Paperback Reference)
By M. C. Howatson. 2013
Reference work of alphabetical entries intended to give greater context to the literature of Ancient Greece and Rome. Entries include…
biographies of classical writers, individual works, literary styles, characters, themes, plot summaries, geographic references, historical figures, and more. 2011Novels and essays: Vandover and the brute ; McTeague ; The octopus ; Essays
By Frank Norris. 1986