Me & Other Writing by Marguerite Duras (translated by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan )
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A career-spanning collection of Marguerite Duras’s genre-bending essays that Kirkus calls a luminous, erudite exploration of the self and art. In her nonfiction as well as her fiction, Marguerite Duras’s curiosity was endless, her intellect voracious. Within a single essay she might roam from Flaubert t ...Show more
Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
'Hardwick's sentences are burned in my brain.' - Susan Sontag Sidelined. Betrayed. Killed off. Elizabeth Hardwick considers the history of women and literature. She imagines the lives of the Brontes, Woolf, Eliot and Plath; the fate of literary wives such as Zelda Fitzgerald and Jane Carlyle; and the s ...Show more
At The Pond: Swimming At The Hampstead Ladies' Pond by Margaret Drabble,Esther Freud,Sophie Mackintosh
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
Tucked away along a shady path towards the north-east edge of Hampstead Heath is a sign: Women Only. This is the Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond. Floating in the Pond’s silky waters, hidden by a canopy of trees, it’s easy to forget that you are in the middle of London. On a hot day, thousands of swimmers f ...Show more
Words Are My Matter Writings on Life and Books by Le Guin, Ursula K
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A collection of essays on life and literature, from one of the most iconic authors and astute critics in contemporary letters. Words Are My Matter is essential reading: a collection of talks, essays, and criticism by Ursula K. Le Guin, a literary legend and unparalleled voice of our social conscience. H ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories by Jay Rubin
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: PENGUIN CLASSICS
This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable works being written today. Short story writers already well-known to English-language readers are all included here - Tanizaki, Akutagawa, Mura ...Show more
The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
“As far as the education of children is concerned,” states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, “I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contem ...Show more
Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Modern
The ultimate Camp statement - 'it's good because it's awful'. These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.
White Girls by Hilton Als
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
'I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged' John Jeremiah Sullivan 'Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin' Observer 'I see how we are all the same, that none of us are white women or black men; rather, we're a series of mouths, and that every mouth needs ...Show more
These Possible Lives by Fleur Jaeggy
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: General Adult
New Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy's strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction, Fleur Jaeggy proves herself an even more concise master of the essay form, albeit in a most peculiar and la ...Show more
The Empathy Exams : Essays by Leslie Jamison
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014 Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students t ...Show more
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures by Mary Ruefle
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
This is one of the wisest books I've read in years... --New York Times Book Review No writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the weird magic of poetry as Ruefle does. She acknowledges and celebrates in the odd mystery and mysticism of the act--the fact that poetry must both guard ...Show more
Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays by Susan Sontag
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Susan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative and hugely influential works she explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her now-famous polemic against Hitler's favourite film-ma ...Show more