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By: Oguz Atay
ISBN: 9781681377964
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 22nd October 2024
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Gershom Scholem
ISBN: 9781590170328
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2004
UK Publication Date: 15th February 2003
Publisher: New York Review Books
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The great Jewish scholar shares his insights into philosopher Walter Benjamin, a childhood friend who committed suicide in 1940. Reprint.
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By: Simone Weil
ISBN: 9781590171455
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2004
Publisher: New York Review Books
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These essays do more than prove the permanent relevance of Homer's great poem. They analyze the logic of war itself, and explore how intoxicating violence defines the human condition.
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By: Oakley Hall
ISBN: 9781590171615
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2005
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2007
Publisher: New York Review Books
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A twisted pulp epic, in which the fantasy world of the Western is revealed as the perverse unconscious of American life.
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By: Rumi
ISBN: 9781681379166
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 22nd April 2025
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Jean-Paul Sartre
ISBN: 9781590174937
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2013
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Philosopher, novelist, playwright, biographer, journalist, and activist, Jean-Paul Sartre was also-and perhaps above all-a great essayist.
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By: J R Ackerley
ISBN: 9781590173954
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
UK Publication Date: 12th May 2011
Publisher: New York Review Books
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We Think the World of You is known for its extraordinary mixture of acute social realism and dark fantasy, and was described by J. R. Ackerley himself as "a fairy tale for adults.
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By: Munro Leaf
ISBN: 9781590172063
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jun 2004
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2006
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Wee Gillis spends half the year with his father's rough and rawkus highland people and the other half with his mother's gentle sheephearding folk. But it's up to him to decide where he fits in.
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By: Abner Dean
ISBN: 9781681370491
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: New York Review Books
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In 1945, after over a decade as a commercial illustrator - drawing advertisements and cartoons for Life, Time, Esquire, Newsweek, and many others - the author invented a genre all his own: one might call it the Existential Gag Cartoon. In this book, he uses this most ephemeral of forms to explore the deepest mysteries of human existence.
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By: James Schuyler
ISBN: 9781590171677
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2004
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2007
Publisher: New York Review Books
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A bittersweet comedy of "group therapy manners" about cracking up and putting the pieces back together from the writer John Ashbery called "America's greatest poet."
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By: J.F. Powers
ISBN: 9780940322240
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Wheat That Springeth Green, J. F. Powers's beautifully realized final work, is a comic foray into the commercialized wilderness of modern American life.
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By: Henrik Pontoppidan
ISBN: 9781681379296
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2025
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Tatyana Tolstaya
ISBN: 9781590171974
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
UK Publication Date: 29th June 2007
Publisher: New York Review Books
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This first comprehensive collection of stories from a writer whom Edna O'Brien dubbed "an enchantress" shows off Tolstaya's unparalleled ability to reflect the heartbreak and humor of everyday life in contemporary Russia.
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By: Jody Gladding
ISBN: 9789629968007
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: New York Review Books
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The genre of poems that may be read both forward and backward, producing different creations was known as the flight of wild geese. These poems were often sent so that a distant lover, like the migrating birds, would return. With examples from the 3rd to the 19th centuries, Michele Metail describes reversible poems as a singular adventure at the edge of meaning, of language, and of writing.
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By: William Mccleery
ISBN: 9781590175897
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: New York Review Books
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William McCleery's Wolf Story is a delicious treat for fathers and sons and daughters and mothers alike.
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By: Yuko Tsushima
ISBN: 9781681375977
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2022
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: David Bromwich
ISBN: 9781681374628
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 20th October 2020
Publisher: New York Review Books
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"Collection of writings on politics including Martin Luther King Jr, George Orwell and Hannah Arendt"--
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By: Donald Nicholson-Smith
ISBN: 9781681371764
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Depicts the lives of undocumented migrant workers in Paris with unsettling power. Alain, a Balinese immigrant, struggles to protect his family and his white girlfriend, Claire, while engaged in a strange, tragic dance of obsession and repulsion with Mario, a retired French-Algerian policeman.
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By: Dorothy Baker
ISBN: 9781590175774
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
UK Publication Date: 26th October 2012
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Dorothy Baker's Young Man with a Horn is widely regarded as the first jazz novel, and it courses with the verve and swing of the music that defined an era.
