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By Wendell Berry. 1995
A series of provocative essays espousing the importance of strong communities and local economies. Berry laments the adverse effects on…
community life of such forces as centralized government and the global economy. He offers suggestions for returning to simpler ways. 1995.By Christopher West. 1991
Christopher West fills a rucksack, and heads for the country most unlike his own he can imagine. He travels up…
the eastern coast of China by train, bus, bicycle and boat, meeting peasants, racketeers, monks, entrepreneurs, veteran revolutionaries and former Red Guards. The climax comes on the Great Wall, where he experiences a moment of intense revelatory happiness. 1991.By Anne Rivers Siddons. 1975
Personal essays spanning a year in the author's life. She writes of her peculiar response to the evening news, a…
visit to a haunted wintertime beach, a wild--but touching--college reunion, and loving memories of her grandfather. 1975.By Judith Davidson. 1983
An introduction to the history and culture of Japan including a discussion of Japanese in the United States. Discusses Japanese…
legends, festivals, home life, schools, and sports. Grades 5-8. 1983. (Discovering our heritage)By Natalie Appleton. 2017
On the eve of Christmas and a proposal, Natalie Appleton discovers she doesn’t want to settle for sevens, and starts…
over. So, she abandons everything in Alberta for Bangkok. Along the way, Natalie unpacks the past that caused her to flee: cheating hearts, small-town suffocation, a tattered family and a genetic disposition to madness. In Bangkok, Natalie kills an albino gecko, crawls into bed with a lampseller and nearly calls off her quest when she’s almost attacked by a leather vendor. And then, at a grimy guesthouse one year after arriving in Thailand, everything changes. 2017.By Jorge Carrión. 2017
Jorge Carrión collects bookshops: from Gotham Book Mart and the Strand Bookstore in New York City to City Lights Bookshop…
and Green Apple Books in San Francisco and all the bright spots in between (Prairie Lights, Tattered Cover, and countless others). In this thought-provoking, vivid, and entertaining essay, Carrión meditates on the importance of the bookshop as a cultural and intellectual space. Filled with anecdotes from the histories of some of the famous (and not-so-famous) shops he visits on his travels, thoughtful considerations of challenges faced by bookstores, and fascinating digressions on their political and social impact, 'Bookshops' is both a manifesto and a love letter to these spaces that transform readers' lives. 2017. Uniform title: Librerías.By M. Nourbese Philip, Marlene Nourbese Philip. 2017
A collection of previously out-of-print essays and new works by one of Canada's most important contemporary writers and thinkers. Through…
an engagement with her earlier work, M. NourbeSe Philip comes to realize the existence of a repetition in the world: the return of something that, while still present, has become unembedded from the world, disappeared. Her imperative becomes to make us see what has gone unseen, by writing memory upon the margin of history, in the shadow of empire and at the frontier of silence. In heretical writings that work to make the disappeared perceptible, "Blank" explores questions of race, the body politic, timeliness, recurrence, ongoingness, art, and the so-called multicultural nation. Through these considerations, Philip creates a linguistic form that registers the presence of what has seemingly dissolved, a form that also imprints the loss and the silence surrounding those disappearances in its very presence. 2017. Uniform title: Essays.By Will Randall. 2004
Learning as much as he is teaching in the Indian city of Poona, Will finds his life transformed by his…
remarkable class of orphans: Dulabesh, the joker; Prakash, who learnt self-sufficiency by scavenging in skips; the nutty yet charming Tanushri. When the slum barons threaten to level the school, Will hits upon a fund-raising plan. 2004.By Geoffrey Moorhouse. 1984
A social history of the British rule in India and the men who went there: poets, painters and politicians. This…
complex edifice brought out the best - and worst - in these temporary landowners. The author covers a wide span from the tuckshop greed of the seventeenth century nabobs to the departure of the last soldier in February 1948. 1984.The explorer and travel writer chronicles his horseback trip across Mongolia, retracing the twelfth-century route of Genghis Khan and his…
horde. Severin describes the wild, untamed expanses of Mongolia that, despite the years of Communist rule, have changed little since the time of Genghis Khan. Historical anecdotes as well as descriptions of nomadic herders, exotic traditions, and austere people pepper the narrative. 1992.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.By Saskia Vogel, Magnus Bärtås, Fredrik Ekman. 2015
The authors have created a mosaic of North Korea, past and present: from the Japanese occupation to the demarcation of…
the border at the 38th parallel and the Korean War, the development of North Korean Juche ideology, the establishment of the Kim dynasty's cult of personality, and the aggressive manufacturing of political propaganda, which motivated the kidnapping of South Korea's most famous film couple. Intelligent and shocking, this book offers a rare and fascinating window into the “hermit kingdom.” 2015. Uniform title: Alla monster måste dö.By Jamie Zeppa. 1999
In 1989 Jamie Zeppa decided to try something completely different from anything she had ever done before. She signed on…
as a teacher for two years in the Far East country of Bhutan. Once she arrived there she discovered the difficulties in bridging cultural divides, and the rewards that come from immersing oneself in a completely different culture. 1999.By Anthony Weller. 1997
The highway adventures of an American journalist traveling the fifteen hundred miles of the Grand Trunk Road from Calcutta across…
northern India and Pakistan to the Khyber Pass. Weller recounts the region's religious and political history; describes the cities, countryside, and people he encounters; and conveys his joy at traveling in an area he has read much about. c1997.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.By Hadani Ditmars. 2005
When Ditmars first went to Iraq in 1997, she found art, and beauty, amidst the misery and suffering. She travelled…
to Iraq again and again, and in 2003, she returned to Baghdad to find the people she had met over the years and see what had become of them since the US "liberation". Ditmars portrays the full depth of the humanity of the Iraqi people. 2005.By Bronwen Wallace, Joanne Page. 1992
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.By James Salter, Kay Eldredge Salter. 2017
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.