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Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation. Naipaul, Kurt Vonnegut, Iris Murdoch, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Don DeLillo, Elmore Leonard, Michael Crichton, Thomas Harris - and John Updike.

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Contemporary American society is characterized by divisive anger, profound loss, and danger. Berry, one of the country's foremost cultural critics, addresses the menace, responding with hope and intelligence in a series of essays that tackle the major questions of the day.

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"Prize-winning essayist Scott Russell Sanders explores the role of imagination in art, science, and ethics. He shows that bold acts of imagination are key to healing our divided society and damaged Earth"--Provided by publisher.

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A title, in which the author argues that sex is at the heart of his writing because it is at the heart of life - a vital force as essential as bread, money, work or play.

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A highly irresistible debut that celebrates the universe in all its wondrous glory.

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A moving, literary collection on the meanings, nuances, and definitions of "home"

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This Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration ofartists who raise hell, transform their bodies, angertheir elders and show their audience dark, disturbingthings.

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A stirring account of how music acts as a witness to history and a medium of cultural memory in the post-Holocaust world.

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An entirely original portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to find her own voice

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Betjeman's infectious enthusiasms have made him a keystone of England's common culture.

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A lethal cocktail of memoir and criticism, Tunnel Vision launches the career of one of the finest new essayists around.

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Features the author's own selection of the best of the essays he has published over more than a decade in such places as The Believer and the London Review of Books. This book includes essays on writers, as well as essays on Gerhard Richter, David Lynch, and Sonic Youth - and all of them are written with the same stylish and provocative flare.

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A collection of essays taken from 40 years of the author's work. It is divided into three sections: State of the Art , which covers literature; State of the Union , which deals with politics and public life; and State of Being , which gives his personal responses to people and events.

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Shows the range and depth of Ruskin's work, and reveals the consistency of Ruskin's philosophy and his adamant belief that questions of economics, art and science could not be separated from questions of morality. This volume also shows that his work "Unto this Last" is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy.

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A collection of literary portraits looks at waterfront workers, people on the Bowery, Mohawk Indians working on high structural steel, gypsies, itinerant preachers, and others.

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Brings you the works of thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

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First published in 1516, "Utopia" depicts an imaginary society free of private property, sexual discrimination and religious intolerance. Its radical humanism has had a dramatic effect on modern history and the challenge of its vision is as persistent today as it was in the Renaissance.

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A collection of the most brilliant Indian writing of the last 50 years, published to coincide with the anniversary of independence.

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For years now, Nancy Mairs has been confined to a wheelchair by multiple sclerosis. Through sharing the details of daily physical care and the emotional economy of caregiving, Mairs brings a waist-high perspective to travel, sex and ethics for the disabled.

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In this classic of American literature, Thoreau gives an account of his two years experience of the simple life in the woods, telling how he sought and found material and spiritual sustenance in the solitude of the cabin which he built for himself on the shore of Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts.

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A collection of quotations by Henry David Thoreau, famous American author, naturalist, and transcendentalist.

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