My Ears Are Bent
6 best books like My Ears Are Bent (Joseph Mitchell): Fatherland, Lord Jim, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty, Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology, Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker, Without Stopping
| Author | Robert Harris |
| ISBN | 0061006629 |
It is twenty years after Nazi Germany's triumphant victory in World War II and the entire country is preparing for the grand celebration of the Führer's seventy-fifth birthday, as well as the imminent peacemaking visit from President Kennedy.
Meanwhile, Berlin Detective Xavier March...
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
| ISBN | 1551111721 |
Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. A few days later, they...
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
| Author | Dorothy Roberts |
| ISBN | 0679758690 |
This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil rights agenda of recent years--using a black feminist lens and the issue of the impact of recent legislation, social policy, and welfare "reform" on black...
| Author | Incite! Women of Color Against Violence |
What would it take to end violence against women of color? How does the mainstream antiviolence movement help? How does it hinder? When will we admit that repositioning women of color at the center of the movement--women more often harmed by the police, prisons, and border patrols than aided by them--means...
Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker
| Author | Thomas Kunkel |
| ISBN | 0375508902 |
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • This fascinating biography reveals the untold story of the legendary New Yorker profile writer—author of Joe Gould’s Secret and Up in the Old Hotel—and unravels the mystery behind one of literary...
"Na Primavera, regressámos a Fez e ficámos no Belvedere. Eu estava a terminar The Sheltering Sky e a Jane estava imersa na sua novela Camp Cataract. Ao raiar do dia, tomávamos o pequeno-almoço na cama no seu quarto. Depois, eu ia para o meu quarto, deixando a porta aberta para que pudéssemos comunicar,...
