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Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives. How do we live fully? How do we live successfully? Adrift in an anchorless world, we often worry about where we are heading. What meaning can we hope to find our modern, secular...

Che cosa vuol dire essere uomini? Gettarsi a capofitto contro gli ostacoli a costo della morte, o pianificare con astuzia ogni mossa? Inseguire la verità, o manipolarla? Essere Achille, oppure Odisseo? "Nessuno fra gli antichi Greci ignorava la profonda distanza caratteriale che divideva i due eroi. Nessuno ignorava la vita di Odisseo e la morte di Achille, l'astuzia del primo e la schiettezza del secondo, la riflessività dell'uomo maturo e l'impulsività del giovane. Il loro desiderio di uccidere la morte. L'uno schivandola. L'altro disprezzandola".

A career-spanning selection of the legendary reporter David Carr’s writing for the New York Times, Washington City Paper, New York Magazine, the Atlantic, and more. Throughout his 25-year journalistic career, David Carr was noted for his sharp and fearless observations, his uncanny sense of...

Does joy just seem too difficult to come by these days? Does it seem irresponsible or naïve? Maybe you don't feel like you can be joyful, don't know how to, or don't deserve to? In this collection of short essays on defiant joy, Shemaiah Gonzalez reflects on how she gradually learned to see joy...

In Raffles und Miss Blandish untersucht Orwell das gerade in der Bücher- und Filmwelt aufkommende Phänomen des sympathischen Gentleman-Verbrechertyps, der Romantisierung von Kriminalität und die Glorifizierung des Prinzips „Die Macht des Stärkeren". Dabei spielt es keine Rolle, wer die Verbrechen verübt, da der Staat genauso korrupt und kriminell agiert wie das organisierte Verbrechen, also im Prinzip der Erfolg alle Mittel rechtfertigt.

Einen großen Teil seiner prosaischen Werke bilden seine Essays ab, hier der abschließende Teil 25. In Freiheit des Parks zeigt Orwell anhand eines relativ banalen Vorfalls, nämlich der Verhaftung von Zeitungsjungen wegen Verkauf von Zeitungen, die offensichtlichen Schwachstellen demokratischer Gesellschaften, welche in ihrem Funktionieren nicht nur von ihren exekutiven und judikativen Organen abhängig sind, sondern eben auch von den Menschen, die dahinter stehen.

Darin vergleicht Orwell die Wirtschaftsstruktur von Sozialismus mit der Gewinn maximierenden Eigenart der freien Marktwirtschaft – dem Kapitalismus und die daraus resultierenden Gefahren für die Gesellschaft. Er erklärt, warum extrem reiche Leute eher mit dem Faschismus sympathisieren und warum im Allgemeinen die oberen 10.000 von politisch extremen Regierungen entlastet und gefördert werden. Ein kritischer Punkt für freie Gesellschaften ist laut Orwell dann erreicht, wenn „Langeweile auf Stagnation" trifft.

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the...

Своєю промовистою назвою і багатством сюжетних ліній роман Панаса Мирного Хіба ревуть воли, як ясла повні? викликає цікавість у читачів та спонукає до роздумів. Основною ідеєю твору є проблема соціальної несправедливості. Головний герой Чіпка шукає свій шлях, але так і не знаходить, адже його життя — постійна боротьба за правду, боротьба, яка ведеться на межі чесних і темних вчинків. Гостре відчуття соціальної нерівності щоразу підживлює бунтарський дух юнака.

What does it take to escape the plotlines mapped onto us? Searching for clues in the work of her literary foremothers, Lipson untangles what it means to be a girl, a woman, a lover, a partner, a daughter, and a mother in a world all too ready to reduce us to stock characters.

Exploring issues from the #MeToo movement, gender bias in division of labor and the workplace, and the underrepresentation of women of color in leadership, to cultural trends including food and travel shows, the intersection of fashion and food, and the evolution of food writing in the last few decades, Women on Food brings together food's most vital female voices.

When Colleen Kinder put out a call for authors to write a letter to a stranger about an unforgettable encounter, she opened the floodgates. The responses—intimate and addictive, all written in the second person—began pouring in. These short, insightful essays by a remarkable cast of writers guide us both across the globe and through the mysteries of human connection. Moving and unforgettable, Letter to a Stranger is an irresistible listen for the literary traveler and the perfect gift for anyone who is haunted by a person they met once and will remember forever.

Michel de Montaigne embodies the humanist ideal—curious, measured, contemplative yet not unworldly, witty, free of prejudice, and urbane. But what does this French Renaissance philosopher have to tell us about how to think and live today? In forty short, erudite, and lively chapters written over a single summer, Antoine Compagnon seeks answers to that question. In A Summer with Montaigne, Compagnon invites his listeners to join him as he strolls through Montaigne’s key contributions to our understanding of what is good and worthwhile in life.

Briefe an einen jungen Dichter ist eine Sammlung von Briefen Rainer Maria Rilkes, die 1929 im Insel Verlag als Nummer 406 der Insel-Bücherei erschien. Die Briefe an einen jungen Dichter wurden aus der Veröffentlichung der übrigen Briefe ausgegliedert und diesen vorangestellt, weil sich die Herausgeberinnen erhofften, auf diesem Wege mehr Aufmerksamkeit für Rilkes moderne Haltung zur Orientierung im Leben zu erlangen, während sowohl der Kommunismus als auch der Nationalsozialismus an Boden gewannen. Die Texte grenzen sich von politischen Ideologien ebenso ab wie von der Religion.

MT, as he is popularly known, is one of the most illustrious writers and film-makers from modern Kerala. His life’s work has won him the Jnanpith Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award, the National Film Award and the Padma Bhushan, among others. MT grew up in the village of Kudallur in Kerala and...

Michel de Montaigne, one of the foremost writers of the French Renaissance and the originator of the genre of the essay, wrote on subjects ranging from friendship to imagination, from language to conscience. This collection includes 22 of Montaigne's essays, including "Of Prognostications," "Of the Custom of Wearing Clothes," "Of Pedantry," and "Of Friendship."

«¿Por qué viniste a los Estados Unidos? Ésa es la primera pregunta del cuestionario de admisión para los niños indocumentados que cruzan solos la frontera». A partir de su trabajo como traductora para la defensa de niños migrantes en la corte migratoria de Nueva York, Valeria Luiselli...

From adventure to indenture, martyrs to merchants, Partition to plantation, from Kashmir to Kerala, Japan to Jamaica and beyond, the many facets of the great migrations of India and the world are mapped in India Moving, the first book of its kind. To understand how millions of people...

The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick is a companion collection to The Collected Essays, a book that proved a revelation of what, for many, had been an open secret: that Elizabeth Hardwick was one of the great American literary critics, and an extraordinary stylist in her own right. The thirty-five pieces that Alex Andriesse has gathered here-none previously featured in volumes of Hardwick's work-make it clear that her powers extended far beyond literary criticism.

Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the 16 essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalized by humans. Modeled loosely after a medieval bestiary, these witty, playful, whip-smart essays traverse history, myth, science, and more, bringing each beast vibrantly to life.