Lust

Author	Knut Hamsun
ISBN	0486431681

One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary history with the publication in 1890 of this powerful, autobiographical novel recounting the abject poverty, hunger and despair of a young writer struggling to achieve self-discovery and its ultimate...

Author	David Wallace-Wells
ISBN	0525576703

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms...

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Yiyun Li

A brilliant writer imagines a fictional conversation between a mother and the teenage son she lost to suicide. Yiyun Li confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love.

The narrator writes, "I had but one delusion, which I held onto with all my willpower: we...

Author	Ottessa Moshfegh
ISBN	1594206627

So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes—a prison...

Author	Karen Horney
ISBN	1406797480

Originally published the 1940s, this is one of the founding texts in the self-analysis movement. It still has much practical advice to offer to today's audience. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive....

Author	Michel Foucault
ISBN	1565844343

Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth century as Michel Foucault. His work has affected the teaching of any number of disciplines and remains, twenty years after his death, critically important. This newly available edition is drawn from the complete collection of all...

Author	Albert Camus
ISBN	0394702077

You had me at Caligula, Albert Camus, whose CALIGULA AND 3 OTHER PLAYS has circulated through my private library ever since I took my parent’s copy while in the depth of adolescent existentialism. I collected as much Camus as I could then, from his notebooks to the plays, essays and novels, again, mostly...

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İlber Ortaylı

Daha anlamlı yaşamak için İlber Ortaylı’dan tavsiyeler…

“Cesur olun. Kendinizi rahat hissettiğiniz alanın dışında pencereler açın. Farklı dünyalarla ancak böyle tanışırsınız. Ben hep yerimde dursaydım, dünyamı değiştirecek insanları aramasaydım,...