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Alice Yaeger Kaplan - The Collaborator: The Trial & Execution of Robert Brasillach
Relates the story of the only French writer to be executed for treason during World War II, from his rise during the 1930s to his trial and death in front of a firing squad.
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Martin Amis - The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
In this comprehensive collection of essays, Martin Amis tackles such diverse subjects as Elvis, Margaret Thatcher, Andy Warhol, the Guinness Book of Records, Abraham Lincoln, poker, chess, and American movies. He also comments pungently on a variety of literary works, including PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, ... More
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Nicholson Baker - Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
In an exposT of contemporary library policies, the best-selling author of Vox describes how such institutions have dismantled collections of original bound newspapers and so-called brittle books to replace them with microfilmed copies, exploring the hidden reasons for such policies and calling for t ... More
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Robert Darnton - The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
The best-selling books in France during the waning decades of the ancien regime were not the outlawed works of great philosophers such as Voltaire and Rousseau, but other books, also banned by the government, written and sold "under the cloak." These formed a libertine literature that was a crucial ... More
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Claudia Roth Pierpont - Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World
Essays exploring the lives and literary achievements of twelve women writers--including Eudora Welty, Ayn Rand, Doris Lessing, Zora Neale Hurston, and Mary McCarthy--focus on how they shaped beliefs about issues ranging from sexual freedom to racial issues to politics.
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Cynthia Ozick - Quarrel & Quandary: Essays
<b>Quarrel &amp; Quandary</b><i> </i>showcases the manifold talents of one of our leading and award-winning critics and essayists.<br><br>In nineteen opulent essays, Cynthia Ozick probes Dostoevsky for insights into the Unabomber, questions the role of the public intellectual, and dares to wonder wh ... More
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H.J. Jackson - Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books
This anecdotal study explores the marks readers leave behind in books as they read. Sometimes readers mourn what's not present in the margin: Fermat's last theorem is famously missing because he allegedly found the margins too small; sometimes they deplore what is: De Quincey admonished Wordsworth f ... More
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William Gass - Tests of Time: Essays
Fourteen essays by novelist and philosopher William H. Gass, about literature, society, and politics. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
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Sherod Santos - A Poetry of Two Minds
This collection of 13 essays (10 of which were published previously in literary journals) focuses on how poems have a mind of their own unbeknownst to the poet. Subject matter includes the work of Shelley, Bishop, and Charles Wright.
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