Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture

7 best books like Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture (Daniel Mendelsohn): The Tartar Steppe, The Hellbound Heart, The Shadow of Sirius, Anatomy of Criticism, The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories, Paddle to the Amazon: The Ultimate 12,000-Mile Canoe Adventure, L'Art de perdre

The Tartar Steppe

Author	Dino Buzzati
ISBN	1567923046

Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory. It tells of young Giovanni Drogo, who is posted to a distant fort overlooking the vast Tartar steppe. Although not intending to stay, Giovanni suddenly finds...

The Hellbound Heart

Author	Clive Barker
ISBN	0061002828

Clive Barker is widely acknowledged as the master of nerve-shattering horror. The Hellbound Heart is one of his best, one of the most dead-frightening stories you are likely to ever read, a story of the human heart and all the great terrors and ecstasies within. It was also the book behind the cult horror...

The Shadow of Sirius

Author	W.S. Merwin
ISBN	1556592841

Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Featured on NPR's "Fresh Air" and "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS.

Honored as one of the "Best Books of the Year" from Publishers Weekly.

"In his personal anonymity, his strict individuated manner, his defense of the earth,...

Anatomy of Criticism

Author	Northrop Frye
ISBN	0691069999

Striking out at the conception of criticism as restricted to mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northrop Frye wrote this magisterial work proceeding on the assumption that criticism is a structure of thought and knowledge in its own right. Employing examples of world literature from ancient times to...

The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories

Author	Nathaniel Hawthorne
ISBN	0451530209

Of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s insight into the Puritan’s simultaneous need for fulfillment and self-destruction, D. H. Lawrence wrote, “Nathaniel knew disagreeable things in his inner soul. He was careful to send them out in disguise.” By means of artfully crafted and compelling tales, Hawthorne...

Paddle to the Amazon: The Ultimate 12,000-Mile Canoe Adventure

Author	Don Starkell
ISBN	0771082568

It was crazy. It was unthinkable. It was the adventure of a lifetime.

When Don and Dana Starkell left Winnipeg in a tiny three-seater canoe, they had no idea of the dangers that lay ahead. Two years and 12,180 miles later, father and son had each paddled nearly twenty million strokes, slept on...

L'Art de perdre

Author

Alice Zeniter

L’Algérie dont est originaire sa famille n’a longtemps été pour Naïma qu’une toile de fond sans grand intérêt. Pourtant, dans une société française traversée par les questions identitaires, tout semble vouloir la renvoyer à ses origines. Mais quel lien pourrait-elle avoir avec...