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Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through(2019) FLEISCHMANN, TW. G. Sebald meets Maggie Nelson in an autobiographical narrative of embodiment, visual art, history, and loss.Vezava: Mehka20,07 € -
Prevention of Literature(2021) ORWELL, GEORGEIn The Prevention of Literature, Orwell discusses the effect of the ownership of the press on the accuracy of reports of events, and takes aim at political language, which 'consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together.' It is a stirriVezava: Mehka7,72 € -
Politics vs. Literature(2021) ORWELL, GEORGEPolitics vs. Literature is, at heart, a review of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Using the book as an example of enjoying a book whose author one cannot stand, Orwell goes on to say that he considers Gulliver's Travels a work of art, leaving the reaVezava: Mehka7,72 € -
Dictionary of the Undoing(2020) FREEMAN, JOHNDictionary of the Undoing is a necessary, resounding cri de coeur in defense of language, meaning, and our ability to imagine, describe, and build a better world.Vezava: Trda18,21 € -
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Literary Tour of Italy(2016) PARKS, TIMFrom Boccaccio and Machiavelli through to Moravia and Tabucchi, from the Stil Novo to Divisionism, across centuries of history and intellectual movements, these essays will give English readers, and lovers of the Bel Paese and its culture, the lay of theVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Tribe(2022) ALVAREZ, CARLOS MANUELA dizzying portrait of contemporary Cuba as it has rarely been seen, by an up-and-coming Cuban novelist.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Ill Feelings(2021) HATTRICK, ALICEIll Feelings blends memoir, medical history, biography and literary non-fiction to uncover untold case histories of medically unexplained and invisible illness.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Against Amazon(2020) CARRIN, JORGEA history of bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letter—and, most urgently, a manifesto.Vezava: Mehka20,07 € -
Responsibility to Awe(2018) ELSON, REBECCAThis reissue of Elson's best writing reintroduces her to the 21st century.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die(2018) MUSTICH, JAMESThe ultimate book for book lovers: the 1,000 must-read books across genres and eras, each accompanied by a thought-provoking short essay on why the book is so essential.Vezava: Trda45,62 € -
Elisabeth’s Lists(2019) ELLENDER, LULAHA vivacious and moving portrait of a lost era and a lost grandmother, pieced together from an inherited book of handwritten lists.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About(2020)“You will devour these beautifully written and very important tales of honesty, pain, and resilience” (Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat Pray Love) Fifteen brilliant writers explore how what we don’t talk about with our mothers affects us, forVezava: Mehka15,41 €
