Rome: The Passenger by Various
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Category: Theory & Essays | Series: The\Passenger Ser.
IN THIS VOLUME:'Rome doesn't judge you' by Nicola Lagioia, 'The soul of the city' by Matteo Nucci, '39 memos for a book about Rome' by Francesco PiccoloPlus: a guide to the sounds of Rome; the feigned unrest and real malaise of the suburbs; the influence of the Vatican; the excessive power of real esta ...Show more
Root & Branch: Essays on inheritance by Eda Gunaydin
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Category: Theory & Essays
That there is no easy translation for ‘awkward’ in other languages suggests that I’m only myself in English. This feels like a loss, because I’d like to think of myself as Turkish, too.There is a Turkish saying that one’s home is not where one is born, but where one grows full – doğduğun yer değil, doyd ...Show more
The American Beast: Essays, 2012-2022 by Jill Lepore
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Category: Theory & Essays
A panoptical vision of modern America, from the brilliant mind of Jill Lepore.The past decade has marked a shift in America's trajectory. Jill Lepore, the acclaimed writer and New Yorker columnist, has been tracing its contested storylines in real time, beginning with the run-up to Donald Trump's electi ...Show more
The Anthropocene Reviewed: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller by John Green
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Category: Theory & Essays
Mind-expanding essays on modern life and the human experience in the first non-fiction work by #1 internationally bestselling author John Green - one of the world's most beloved novelists.A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 inter ...Show more
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction - With Introduction by Donna Haraway by Ursula K. Le Guin; Donna Haraway (Introduction by); Lee Bul (Illustrator)
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Category: Theory & Essays | Series: Terra Ignota Ser.
In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination. Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the Techno-Heroic, the Carrier Bag Theory of human evolution proposes: ...Show more
The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg
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Category: Theory & Essays
“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
The Reddest Rose: Romantic Love from the Ancient Greeks to Reality TV by Liv Stromquist
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Category: Comics & Graphic Novels | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The deceptively simple through-line for Swedish media personality and activist Liv Strömquist's The Reddest Rose is the question: Why does Leonardo DiCaprio date an endless string of 20-something models? Her answer -- in the form of this collection of well-researched, humorous comics essays -- tracks ho ...Show more
The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin by Kirsty Bell
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Category: Theory & Essays
Humane, thought-provoking and moving, The Undercurrents is a hybrid literary portrait of a place that makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities and our histories. The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a pr ...Show more
A Critical Theory of Police Power: The Fabrication of the Social Order by Mark Neocleous
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Category: Theory & Essays
Since its first publication twenty years ago, A Critical Theory of Police Power has been one of the most powerful and wide-ranging Marxist analyses of the subject. Unravelling the rise of policing alongside the history of capitalism, Mark Neocleous argues for an expanded concept of police power, one tha ...Show more
A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin
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Category: Theory & Essays
A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tóibín de ...Show more
A Letter to Layla - Travels to Our Deep Past and near Future by Ramona Koval
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Category: Cultural Studies
How might the origins of our species inform the way we think about our planet? At a point of unparalleled crisis, can human ingenuity save us from ourselves? Much-loved writer and broadcaster Ramona Koval travels the globe in a quest to answer these difficult questions and more. She speaks with an emin ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Theory & Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction--what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain." So begins what is widely regarded as the foundation text of feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Probably Woolf's most readable and e ...Show more