Essays

10 best books like Essays (Wallace Shawn): An Age Like This: 1920-1940, Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings, Selected Essays, Rolling Thunder, The Singing Detective, Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society, En esto creo, Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame, The Battersea Park Road to Paradise, The Past and Future City: How Historic Preservation is Reviving America's Communities

AuthorGeorge Orwell
ISBN1567921337
George Orwell is a major figure in twentieth-century literature. The author of Down and Out in Paris and London, Nineteen Eighty-four, and Animal Farm, he published ten books and two collections of essays during his lifetime -- but in terms of actual words, produced much more than seems possible for...
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...
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...
AuthorDoug Boyd
ISBN0440574358
Rolling Thunder (birth name John Pope; b. 1916, d.1997) was a Native American medicine man. He was born into the Cherokee nation and later moved to Nevada and lived with the Western Shoshone. He essentially married into the Shoshone tribe when he united with his first wife, Spotted Fawn, who preceded...
AuthorDennis Potter
ISBN0571145906
I remember when this was first shown on television – I remember the effect it had on me. That television could be like that! Here was something that proved television could be something more than mindless drivel. Of course, I was wrong – and The Singing Detective was just the exception that proves...
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...
AuthorCarlos Fuentes
ISBN8432216372
Bought this in a second-hand store so not too much money wasted. I'd forgotten how tiresomely liberal-elitist Fuentes can be, although I say that as an avowed anarchist-communist. The mandarin tone, the unnecessarily obtuse language, the attempt to (re)claim Bunuel for religiosity. Ugh. I enjoyed...
AuthorRobin Robertson
ISBN0007170580
A writer's public life is not -- as is often thought -- a round of glamorous parties, prize-acceptance speeches, and triumphant readings to amphitheatres full of loyal, cheering fans; it is, in fact, a grim treadmill of humiliation and neglect. Mortification sets the record straight, once and for...
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...
AuthorStephanie Meeks
ISBN1610917081
At its most basic, historic preservation is about keeping old places alive, in active use, and relevant to the needs of communities today. As cities across America experience a remarkable renaissance, and more and more young, diverse families choose to live, work, and play in historic neighborhoods,...
The Opportunity Equation: How Citizen Teachers Are Combating the Achievement Gap in America's Schools
AuthorEric Schwarz
ISBN0807073458
Schwarz, founder of the groundbreaking Citizen Schools program, shares his vision for reducing inequality by pairing successful adults with low-income students.
 
Parental wealth now predicts adult success more than at any point in the last hundred years. And yet as debates about education...
AuthorLeonard Maltin
ISBN0452286204
From Leonard Maltin, author of the bestselling annual Movie Guide, comes this guide to classic movies. Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide includes more than 7,000 capsule reviews of classic movies, including: The Birth of a Nation (1915), Gone With the Wind (1939), The Philadelphia Story (1940),...
AuthorEphraim Katz
ISBN0060742143
A completely revised and udpated edition of the classic film reference which has sold nearly 150,000 copies in its previous editions.

Ephraim Katz's The Film Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive one-volume encyclopedia on film and is considered the undisputed Bible of the movie industry....
AuthorCharles Dickens
ISBN0061351954
In these two forgotten gems of English literature, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens offer delightful, irreverent histories of their native land.

When she was only sixteen years old, Jane Austen composed her bitingly satirical History of England for performance in her family's drawingroom....
AuthorSimone Weil
ISBN1590171454
War and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer’s art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and death.

Simone Weil’s The Iliad, or the Poem of Force is one of her most celebrated works—an...
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...
Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports
AuthorDave Zirin
ISBN1931859418
“Dave Zirin is the best young sportswriter in America.”—Robert Lipsyte This much-anticipated sequel to What’s My Name, Fool? by acclaimed commentator Dave Zirin breaks new ground in sports writing, looking at the controversies and trends now shaping sports in the United States—and...
AuthorChristopher Hitchens
ISBN0860916286
The global turmoil of the last few years has severely tested every analyst and commentator. Few have written with such insight as Christopher Hitchens about the large events — or with such discernment and wit about the small tell-tale signs of a disordered culture.

For the Sake of Argument...
AuthorSherry Wolf
ISBN1931859795
Sexuality and Socialism is a remarkably accessible analysis of many of the most challenging questions for those concerned with full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.

Inside are essays on the roots of LGBT oppression, the construction of sexual and gender...
AuthorFrances Goldin
ISBN0062305573
An anthology of original essays that seek to right current misconceptions and fears about socialism by describing what socialism would look like in the U.S.A. and the better, more just society that could accompany it

Imagine: Living in a Socialist U.S.A. is an anthology of original essays...
AuthorNoam Chomsky
ISBN0896080919
Statement of purpose for this two-volume project: “It has a dual focus: on facts and on beliefs” (ix). The basic fact is that the United States has organized under its sponsorship and protection a neo-colonial system of client states ruled mainly by terror and serving the interests of a small local...
A Strange Wilderness: The Lives of the Great Mathematicians
AuthorAmir D. Aczel
ISBN1402785844
Duels, battlefield heroism, secret societies, theft, imprisonment, and feuds fill the pages of A Strange Wilderness. As exciting as any action/adventure novel, this is actually the story of incredible individuals and engrossing tales behind the most profound, enduring mathematical theorems.

Archimedes...
AuthorCynthia Ozick
ISBN0375724451
Quarrel & Quandary showcases the manifold talents of one of our leading and award-winning critics and essayists.

In nineteen opulent essays, Cynthia Ozick probes Dostoevsky for insights into the Unabomber, questions the role of the public intellectual, and dares to wonder what poetry...
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