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Another turn of the crank: essays
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.John Chancellor makes me cry
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.Bookshops: a cultural history (Biblioasis international translation series ; #no. 22)
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.Blank: essays & interviews (Essais ; #no. 3)
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.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.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.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.Canada's first nations: a history of founding peoples
By Olive Patricia Dickason. 1992
Dickason traces the history of Canada's first nations, from the earliest habitation of North America through European settlement and to…
the present. She discusses current issues and controversies, including Meech Lake, the Oka crisis, and the debate over self-government. 1992.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.