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10 best books like En esto creo (Carlos Fuentes): You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive, The Fragrance of the Guava, Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings, Selected Essays, Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society, Essays, As I Please: 1943-1945, The Battersea Park Road to Paradise, Collected Stories and Other Writings, Deceived With Kindness

You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive
AuthorSeth Tobocman
ISBN1887128352
This collection of Tobocman’s work is truly amazing. I will recommend this to everyone I know. The fragments and stories selected for this book offer an opportunity to consider closely the rhetorical effects of images combined with various samples of print-texts. I think Tobocman’s collage...
The Fragrance of the Guava
AuthorPlinio Apuleyo Mendoza
ISBN0571193269
In these conversations with a friend and contemporary the Nobel prize-winning Colombian novelist speaks movingly, revealingly and unaffectedly about his family background, his early travels and struggles as a writer, his literary antecedents and his personal artistic concerns. Guided by Mendoza,...
Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings
AuthorManny Farber
Manny Farber (1917–2008) was a unique figure among American movie critics. Champion of what he called "termite art" (focused, often eccentric virtuosity as opposed to "white elephant" monumentality), master of a one-of-a-kind prose style whose jazz-like phrasing and incandescent twists and...
Selected Essays
AuthorDavid Hume
ISBN0192836218
In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), comprehensively shows how far he succeeded.

As seen in these...
Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society
AuthorDaniel Barenboim
ISBN1400075157
These free-wheeling, often exhilarating dialogues—which grew out of the acclaimed Carnegie Hall Talks—are an exchange between two of the most prominent figures in contemporary culture: Daniel Barenboim, internationally renowned conductor and pianist, and Edward W. Said, eminent literary...
Essays
AuthorWallace Shawn
ISBN1608460029
“Full of what you might call conversation starters: tricky propositions about morality... politics, privilege, runaway nationalist fantasies, collective guilt, and art as a force for change (or not)...It’s a treat to hear him speak his curious mind.”—O Magazine

In these beautiful...
As I Please: 1943-1945
AuthorGeorge Orwell
ISBN1567921353
Orwell continues to astonish me with

(a) his extraordinary - what's the word I'm looking for - "prolific" doesn't seem to have an associated noun. Fecundity? Industry? productivity? oh, what the heck - just the sheer volume of his output
(b) the quality of his writing, which is clear and...
The Battersea Park Road to Paradise
AuthorIsabel Losada
ISBN1907486399
In her bestseller The Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment, Isabel Losada set out with a modest aim to be absurdly happy every day. But a few years down the road, she's stuck in a pothole. No job (not good). No man (very not good). Nothing has turned out as she'd intended.

There's only one way to...
Collected Stories and Other Writings
AuthorKatherine Anne Porter
ISBN1598530291
Eudora Welty said that Katherine Anne Porter ?writes stories with a power that stamps them to their very last detail on the memory.? Set in her native Texas and her beloved Mexico, prewar Nazi Germany and the gothic Old South, they are stories of love, outrage, betrayal, and spiritual reckoning that...
Deceived With Kindness
AuthorAngelica Garnett
ISBN0712662669
Angelica Garnett may truly be called a child of Bloomsbury. Her Aunt was Virginia Woolf, her mother Vanessa Bell, and her father Duncan Grant, though for many years Angelica believed herself, naturally enough, the daughter of Vanessa's husband Clive.

Her childhood homes, Charleston in...
Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings
AuthorItalo Calvino
From one of modern literature’s most captivating and elusive masters comes a posthumous volume of thoughtful, elegant, and quick-witted autobiographical writings, all previously unpublished in English. Here is Italo Calvino paying homage to his literary influences and tracing the evolution...
Archives du Nord
AuthorMarguerite Yourcenar
ISBN2070373282
Comme dans Souvenirs Pieux, Marguerite Yourcenar part ici à la recherche de ses origines. Commençant par l'évocation de ces terres, de ces dunes, de ces forêts, qui deviendront un jour la Flandre française, elle descend le cours du temps. L'Histoire devient comparable à une immense circulation...
Man and Citizen: (De Homine and De Cive)
AuthorThomas Hobbes
ISBN0872201112
Hobbes seems to defining eloquence into two camps: that of philosophy and that of passions. "The one is an elegant and clear expression of the conceptions of the mind and riseth partly from the contemplation of the things themselves, partly from an understanding of words taken in their own proper and...
Calligraphy of the Witch
AuthorAlicia Gaspar De Alba
ISBN0312366418
Mexico, 1683. When Concepción Benavidez flees her indenture from the convent of San Jerónimo in Mexico City and sets out to join a band of refugee slaves along with her friend Aléndula, the two are captured by buccaneers in Vera Cruz led by the famed Laurens-Cornille de Graaf, who is running a slave-...
Education and the Social Order
AuthorBertrand Russell
ISBN0415079160
Despite the disastrous failure of his one practical attempt to create a perfect school, Russell constantly strove to invent a system of education free from repression.
Here Russell dissects the motives behind much educational theory and practice - and attacks the influence of chauvanism, snobbery...
Farnood / فرنود
AuthorJaun Elia
Very interesting. Essays on Islamic philosophy and Mutazilla and so on are fascinating but so are his editorials from the early 1960s for Insha and Alami digest...what a different Pakistan! I got it this year in Karachi and it was the best book I bought on this visit..
Since I have little or no personal...
The Moths and Other Stories
AuthorHelena María Viramontes
ISBN1558851380
Fiction. THE MOTHS AND OTHER STORIES, Helena Maria Viramontes' stories exploring women's struggles to overcome the dictates of family, culture, and church, is in a new edition. Prejudice and the social and economic status of Chicanos often form the backdrop for these haunting stories, but their...
Winning!. Clive Woodward
AuthorClive Woodward
England's head coach tells the gripping story of how he took the national side to victory in the 2003 Rugby World Cup in this fully revised and updated paperback. Winning! tells the story of the remarkable past six years - an unforgettable journey that began in September 1997 and took the team from the...
The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation
AuthorLeo R. Chavez
ISBN0804759340
From volunteers ready to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border to the hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children who have marched in support of immigrant rights, the United States has witnessed a surge of involvement in immigration activism. In The Latino Threat, Leo R. Chavez critically investigates...
William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary
AuthorE.P. Thompson
ISBN0394411366
This biographical study is a window into 19th-century British society & the life of Wm Morris--the great craftsman, architect, designer, poet & writer--who remains a monumental & influential figure to this day. This account chronicles how his concern with artistic & human values...
Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
AuthorRigoberto González
ISBN0299219003
Heartbreaking, poetic, and intensely personal, Butterfly Boy is a unique coming out and coming-of-age story of a first-generation Chicano who trades one life for another, only to discover that history and memory are not exchangeable or forgettable. 

Growing up among poor migrant Mexican...
Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
AuthorRubén Martínez
ISBN0312421230
The U.S.-Mexican border is one of the most permeable boundaries in the world, breached daily by Mexicans in search of work. Thousands die crossing the line and those who reach "the other side" are branded illegals, undocumented and unprotected. Crossing Over puts a human face on the phenomenon, following...
Martin Johnson Autobiography
AuthorMartin Johnson
ISBN0755311876
Martin Johnson is the towering second row forward who has come to set the standards of what a professional rugby player should do. His drive and physical presence mean that he is a natural leader on the pitch - and off it, too. In this, his long-awaited autobiography, he looks at the changing world of rugby....
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