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A treasure chest of never-before-collected essays from Frank McCourt, Pulitzer Prize–winning memoirist, and his boisterous brother Malachy, publishing on the 30th anniversary of Angela's Ashes, with a foreword by Colum McCann In 1996, a retired New York City high school English teacher...

From Manus to MONA to birds to the Black Summer, from the destruction of our natural world to the hope offered by Indigenous Australia to the growing corrosion of democracy, from Salman Rushdie to the Segal Report, family and love, Flanagan's non-fiction writings carry the author's trademark...

From "The Talk of the Town," Jamaica Kincaid's first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York Talk Pieces is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for the New Yorker's "Talk of the Town," composed during the time when she first came to the United States from Antigua, from 1978 to...

Sixty-five writers and artists capture early motherhood in scenes and revelations: a vulnerable, kaleidoscopic record of postpartum life. In the early days with their first babies, two friends began comparing notes on what, exactly, was going on in their postpartum bodies and minds. What was a...

সাহিত্যৰ লক্ষ্যই হ'ল সত্যানুসন্ধান। মানুহৰ জীৱন গাঁথাক ভাস্বৰ কৰি তোলা সাহিত্য সদায় অবিনশ্বৰ। তুচ্ছ...

অনুৰাধা শৰ্মা পূজাৰীৰ জনপ্ৰিয় প্ৰবন্ধ সংকলন 'কলিকতাৰ চিঠি'। বিভিন্ন বিষয়বস্তু সামৰি লোৱা, পঢ়ুৱৈক চিন্তাৰ...

মানুহৰ জীৱনটোৱেই যেন এখন অট'গ্ৰাফ! জীৱনৰ যাত্ৰাপথত এনে কিছু ব্যক্তি লগ পোৱা যায় যিয়ে আমাৰ মনৰ মাজত গভীৰ ৰেখাপাত...

Womöglich durch die brutale Fremdherrschaft des Empires über Indien und durch Stalins organisierten Staatsterror und Massenmord angewidert, entwickelte er sich zu einem überzeugten sozialistischen Demokraten, der alle Machtorgane von möglichst vielen Menschen organisiert und Machtumsetzung immer auf möglichst vielen Schultern verteilt sehen wollte. Darin stellt Orwell folgenden zwischen Utopie und Apokalypse angedachten Gedanken in den Fokus des Zuhörers: Den Weltstaat nach H.G.

Darin schildert Orwell seine Erfahrungen aus dem spanischen Krieg und spannt den Bogen zur sogenannten „objektiven Wahrheit", welche in ziemlich vielen Varianten zu existieren scheint. Des Weiteren stellt er anhand zahlreicher Beispiele aus der Praxis fest, dass die spanischen Freiheitskämpfer keinerlei Waffenlieferungen aus den demokratischen Staaten als Unterstützung bekommen haben, während die faschistischen Franco-Truppen mit Kriegsgerät aus Nazi-Deutschland und Nazi-Italien unterstützt wurden und deshalb den Sieg davontrugen.

Combining memoir and essay, cultural criticism and literary experiment, an electrifying account of living with and writing about trauma from a singular new voice in Canadian literature. Taking as its starting point a harrowing event in which the writer and her family were held hostage during the...

“This is the most life-affirming book I’ve read in a long time.” —John Vaillant, National Book Award finalist for Fire Weather Named a Best Book of the Year So Far by: The New Yorker NPR The Financial Times From the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller On Trails...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Food dominates our every waking minute: Hype restaurants. Allrecipes. The Great British Bake Off. In this dazzling cultural history, bestselling food writer Ruby Tandoh (author of Cook As You Are) traces how—and why—we’ve all become foodies. “Ruby Tandoh is...

'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' – Guardian Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks...

Winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Named a Best Book of Summer by The Globe and Mail (Toronto), Publishers Weekly, and Book Riot The Observer (London)’s Summer Reads Select In this collection of medical tales “reminiscent of Oliver Sacks...the best of medical...

The sixth and final instalment in this series of small, inspirational books from the editors of O, the Oprah Magazine, O's Little Guide to the Big Questions is a collection of thought-provoking stories and essays on the wisdom to be gleaned from asking (and answering) life’s biggest questions...

The editors of O, The Oprah Magazine have combed through the publication's extensive archives to create O's Little Book of Love and Friendship, featuring the very best writing on those topics from fifteen years of O. Among the highlights: a frank, funny and freewheeling conversation between two...

With a sprightly dose of insightful inspiration, a sprinkling of practical advice, and a bounty of exuberant stories by great writers, O's Little Book of Happiness features some of the best work ever to have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine. Inside you'll find Elizabeth Gilbert's ode to the...

Abridged for audio. Read by the author, Clive James. With fascinating essays on towering figures from Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic...

From the beginning, readers have come to O for help in figuring out who they were meant to be. O's Little Guide to Finding Your True Purpose is a blend of practical advice and real-life stories of trial, error and triumph. Each entry in this engaging and thoughtful volume guides readers in their...

Some of us start over willingly, and others are forced by circumstance-but everyone who finds herself back at square one could use a dose of courage and comfort. Readers will discover both in O's Little Guide to Starting Over, a collection of stirring pieces on the topic of beginning again. Just...