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"Society Must Be Defended"
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976
Lectures at the Collège de France
Michel Foucault; Translated by David Macey; Edited by Mauro Bertani and Alessandro Fontana; General Editors: François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana; English Series Editor: Arnold I. Davidson
Picador
An examination of the relation between war and politics, by one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers From 1971 until 1984 at the...
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Life Lessons from America's Greatest Writers
Pen/Faulkner Foundation
Bloomsbury USA
An anthology of never-before-published short essays by America's literary greats. Each October at the PEN Gala, well-known authors take the stage of the Folger...
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Abnormal
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975
Lectures at the Collège de France
Michel Foucault; Translated by Graham Burchell
Picador
"The importance of these lectures is that they are directly connected with two of Foucault's greatest books,
Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality: An Introduction
. Because they are clear and to the point, the lectures throw considerable light on the more difficult ideas and passages of their related published works . . . [
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] looks at a set of what Foucault believed to be defining criminal cases of how the West has constituted and reconstituted what is normal and not normal behavior."—
Charles Mudede,
The Stranger
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Ad Infinitum
A Biography of Latin
Nicholas Ostler
Walker & Company
“An absorbing, scholarly account of the history of the Latin language, from its origins in antiquity to its afterlife in our own time...Ad Infinitum treats its...
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After Confession
Poetry as Autobiography
Edited by Kate Sontag and David Graham
Graywolf Press Paper
In an age of memoir, the distinction between fiction and nonfiction has become increasingly blurred, sparking controversy among writers and readers alike. But...
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Against Happiness
In Praise of Melancholy
Eric G. Wilson
Sarah Crichton Books
"Mr. Wilson's basic thesis is that, without suffering, the human soul becomes stagnant and empty . . . We must live between the poles of sadness and joy and not try to expunge misery from our lives. Mr. Wilson makes a strong case . . . to deny our essential sadness in the face of a tragic world is to suppress a large part of what we are as human beings."—
Colin McGinn,
The Wall Street Journal
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Against Interpretation
And Other Essays
Susan Sontag
Picador
"Sontag's essays are great interpretations, and even fulfillments, of what is really going on."—
Carlos Fuentes
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An Alphabet for Gourmets
M.F.K. Fisher
North Point Press
In Alphabet for Gourmets, M.F.K. Fisher arranges a selection of her essays in a whimsical way that reveals the breadth and depth of her passion. From A for...
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Alphabet Juice
The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory
Roy Blount Jr.
Sarah Crichton Books
"Like many writers, I keep a few books on a shelf to unclog my brain for those times when the right combination of words refuses to muster for service. To that pantheon I add Alphabet Juice for its erudition, its grand fun and its contrary view on what constitutes good writing . . . Not that Blount counsels self-indulgence. Writing ‘needs to be quick, so it's readable at first glance and also worth lingering over.' This book is both, and danced in Blount's arms, English swings smartly. My admiration for
Alphabet Juice
only swelled when it proposed a conclusion for this review. Reviewers like to apply the word 'uneven' to books they’re fond of, but have a few reservations about. ‘Would you want to read a book that was even?' he asks. Yes, very much so. And I just did."—
Jack Shafer,
The New York Times Book Review
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Alphabetter Juice
or, The Joy of Text
Roy Blount Jr.
Sarah Crichton Books
Fresh-squeezed Lexicology, with Twists No man of letters savors the ABC’s, or serves them up, like language-loving humorist Roy Blount Jr. His glossary,...
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American Studies
Louis Menand
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
"There are bright connecting threads running from one end of the collection to the other reflecting Menand's imaginative, incisive intellect, his contagious fascination with the interplay between people and ideas and his playful wit."—
Sanford D. Horwitt,
San Francisco Chronicle
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And It Don't Stop
The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years
Edited by Raquel Cepeda; Foreword by Nelson George
Faber and Faber, Inc.
"An irresistible compilation of the most stylish prose and revelatory interviews of the last twenty-five years on hip-hop,
And It Don't Stop
is required reading for any serious devotee of contemporary urban culture . . . A glorious reminder of how influential journalists have been, and continue to be, in helping to shape and create this [music]."—
Jason King, New York University
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The Art of Attention
A Poet's Eye
Art of...
Donald Revell
Graywolf Press Paper
The Art Of series is a new series of brief books by contemporary writers on important craft issues. Each book investigates an element of the craft of fiction,...
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The Art of Description
World into Word
Art of...
Mark Doty
Graywolf Press Paper
“It sounds like a simple thing, to say what you see,” Mark Doty begins. “But try to find words for the shades of a mottled sassafras leaf, or the reflectivity...
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The Art of Recklessness
Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction
Art of...
Dean Young
Graywolf Press Paper
In Dean Young’s sprawling and subversive first book of prose on poetry, imagination swerves into primitivism and surrealism and finally toward empathy. How can...
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The Art of Subtext
Beyond Plot
Art of...
Charles Baxter
Graywolf Press Paper
"Think of subtext in fiction as water; its characters, swimmers on the surface. Like water, subtext is everywhere, ubiquitous and buoyant, darker in its depths, the stuff of immersion. The beauty of Baxter's inaugural entry in Graywolf's . . . 'Art of' series, which draws on examples in literature to instruct on the writing craft, is that it doesn't assume to try and capture the whole of subtext . . . Instead, it focuses on very specific qualities composing it: the art of staging in a story, the importance of inflection in dialog, the ambiguity of motivation. To make the often translucent substance more visible, Baxter highlights excerpts from a wide range of fiction, from the contemporaneous and familiar to the foreign and esoteric . . . Baxter's book will help readers read more creatively and writers to float their stories . . . Highly recommended for all academic libraries."—
Maria Kochis,
Library Journal
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The Art of Syntax
Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song
Art of...
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Graywolf Press Paper
With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings...
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The Art of the Poetic Line
Art of...
James Longenbach
Graywolf Press Paper
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The Art of Time in Fiction
As Long as It Takes
Art of...
Joan Silber
Graywolf Press Paper
Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible,” asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction. The end point of a...
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As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh
Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
Susan Sontag; Edited by David Rieff
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This, the second of three volumes of Susan Sontag’s journals and notebooks, begins where the first volume left off, in the middle of the 1960s. It traces and...
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At Large and At Small
Familiar Essays
Anne Fadiman
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In At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres, the familiar essay—a beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both...
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At the Same Time
Essays and Speeches
Susan Sontag; Edited by Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump; Foreword by David Rieff
Picador
"
At the Same Time
, a posthumous collection of [Sontag's] speeches and essays, shows how her feeling for a vanished Europe deepened even as she grew more distrustful of an America she saw in the grip of a 'dangerous, lobotomizing notion of endless war.' Mostly written during the Bush administration, [the essays] reveal a darkening vision of America as well as the rest of the contemporary world . . . The amplified note of despair and loss in
At the Same Time
makes Sontag resemble one of the European 'last' intellectuals she often wrote about."—
Pankaj Mishra,
The New York Times Book Review
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Axel's Castle
A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
Edmund Wilson; With a New Introduction by Mary Gordon
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Published in 1931, Axel's Castle was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism--a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist...
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The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth
A Life
Frances Wilson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Described by the writer and opium addict Thomas De Quincey as “the very wildest . . . person I have ever known,” DorothyWordsworth was neither the...
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