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  • Revolutions of the Heart

    Literary, Cultural, & Spiritual

    de Yahia Lababidi, Sven Birkerts ...
    Revolutions of the Heart is a genre-bending book where literature, social activism, and mysticism intersect. In this follow-up to Lababidi's first essay collection, Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Bellydancing (2010), the author is undergoing an inner change, as is the world around him. The multifaceted meditations in Revolutions--essays, poems, aphorisms, conversations, and even fiction--explore ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Hopeful Monsters

    de Nicholas Mosley ...
    Thirty-five years after its original publication, Hopeful Monsters **reemerges as one of the “grand intellectual dramas” of the 20th century (—**The New York Times).A sweeping, comprehensive epic, Hopeful Monsters tells the story of the love affair between Max, an English student studying physics and biology, and Eleanor, a German Jew and political radical. Together, Max and Eleanor participate in ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Miró Worm and the Mysteries of Writing

    de Sven Birkerts ...
    One of America's most honored and respected essayists, Sven Birkerts, returns with a riveting new collection. In The Miró Worm and the Mysteries of Writing, Birkerts reflects on fundamental questions every writer grapples with at one time or another: "Ah, the old questions, the good questions, the questions that seem so very basic on the surface, but then you get caught in the implications and ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Gutenberg Elegies

    The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

    de Sven Birkerts ...
    A renowned literary critic examines the impact of information technology on the experience of reading in this "thoughtful and heartfelt" essay collection ( Washington Post ).In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes.Drawing on his own passionate, lifelong love of books, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Changing the Subject

    Art and Attention in the Internet Age

    de Sven Birkerts ...
    Trenchant, expansive essays on the cultural consequences of ongoing, all-permeating technological innovationIn 1994, Sven Birkerts published The Gutenberg Elegies, his celebrated rallying cry to resist the oncoming digital advances, especially those that might affect the way we read literature and experience art—the very cultural activities that make us human.After two decades of rampant change, ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Art of Time in Memoir

    Then, Again

    de Sven Birkerts ...
    Series series Art of...
    The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes will provide a series of sustained examinations of key but sometimes neglected aspects of creative writing by some of contemporary literature's ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Other Walk

    Essays

    de Sven Birkerts ...
    Other Walk is a series of autobiographical pieces by the master of reflection and slow timeThroughout his life, Sven Birkerts, one of the country's foremost literary critics, has carved out time for himself—to walk, to swim, to read, to contemplate. Now in his late fifties, he has clocked up many thousands of hours of reflection. It shows in his prose, which proceeds at a refreshingly deliberative ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Inspector Barlach Mysteries

    The Judge and His Hangman and Suspicion

    de Friedrich Dürrenmatt ...
    Traducido por Joel Agee ...
    This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to the modern detective novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, whose genre-bending mysteries recall the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipate the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo-noir novelists. Both mysteries follow Inspector Barlach as he moves through worlds in which the distinction between crime and justice ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Ploughshares Winter 2022-2023

    de Ladette Randolph, John Skoyles, Alice Jolly, Natalie Bakopoulos, Carmen Giménez Smith, Grace Li, Sara Elkamel, Mimi Schwartz, Kirsty Gunn, Lily Lloyd Burkhalter, Sarah M. Brownsberger, John Balaban, Sven Birkerts, Kashona Stevens, Serkan Gorkemli, Keith S. Wilson, Jim Whiteside, Donna Vorreyer, Ginny Threefoot, Shirley Stephenson, Matthew Sumpter, Nora Hikari, David O'Connell, Charles Rafferty, D. Nurkse, Deshawn McKinney, Jenny Molberg, Cate Lycurgus, Zach Linge, You Li, Christina Hutchins, David Kirby, Maureen Langloss, Luci Huhn, Kate Gaskin, Melissa Fite Johnson, Edison Dupree, Cara Dees, Nathan Blansett, Bruce Bond, Martyn Crucefix, Nancy Feng Liang, D.M. Aderibigbe, Katie Berta ...
    The Winter 2022-23 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporaryAmerican literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in avariety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton amongminnows.”The Winter 2022-23 Issue, edited by ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory: Bookmarked

    de Sven Birkerts ...
    Series Libro 11 - Bookmarked
    “Birkerts reads Nabokov even as he allows Nabokov to read him. This is reading as high art, exhilarating and wise.”—CHRISTOPHER BENFEY, author, Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay“Much more than an exercise in literary criticism, this short book increasingly reads as a profound, sensitive, insightful meditation on family, history, time, language, the nature of artistic inspiration, and, in the ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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    A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

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    A tale of obsession so fierce that a man kills the thing he loves most: the only giant golden spruce on earth.When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier, logger-turned-activist Grant Hadwin had plunged naked into a river in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte ... Leer más

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  • Alias Grace

    A Novel

    de Margaret Atwood ...
    The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments reveals the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century in this "shadowy, fascinating novel" (Time). • A Netflix original miniseries.It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress.Some believe Grace is innocent; others ... Leer más

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