How to Read Shakespeare by Nicholas Royle
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: How to Read
Shakespeare's legacy is all around us - in our books and our films, in our politics and in our everyday speech. With his words he has formed our world, and his influence has been greater than that of any other writer. So what makes Shakespeare's plays so powerful? Taking a single word from each of the s ...Show more
The Most Dangerous Book : The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses by Kevin Birmingham
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
'The bomb has exploded. It will blow a hole in the well-guarded prison of English Literature.' The Quarterly Review. THE MOST DANGEROUS BOOK tells the painful, heartbreaking, exhilirating story of how Joyce's novel was conceived, written, published, burned, acclaimed and excoriated before taking its pla ...Show more
Mammon's Kingdom: An Essay on Britain, Now by David Marquand
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
"One of Britain's leading political thinkers". (John Gray). Since 2008's financial crisis, we have heard much about the failures of bankers, regulators and politicians. David Marquand sees a wider issue: the fall of the public realm. The crisis, he argues, is one of our moral economy as much as of our p ...Show more
White Album: Essays by Joan Didion
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: FSG Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define m ...Show more
You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself by David McRaney
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise, based on the popular blog of the same name. Whether you're deciding which smartphone to purchase or which politician to believe, you think you are a rational being whose every decision is based on cool, detached logic. But here's ...Show more
Blood and Guts: Dispatches from the Whale Wars by Sam Vincent
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
I pull on my balaclava and step onto the bridge wing. It's loud outside: I can hear the rumbles of nine vessels' engines and the hiss of ten water cannons ... Suddenly the bridge is full of refugees from the upper deck. They are blocking my view out the back windows, but their faces - afraid, excited, a ...Show more
This Changes Everything - Capitalism vs the Climate by Naomi Klein
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bests ...Show more
Inventing Hell: Dante, the Bible and Eternal Torment by Jon M. Sweeney
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Hell: The word means terror, darkness, and eternal separation from God. Some people think the Bible is clear about hell, but what if they're mistaken? With gripping narrative and solid scholarship, Sweeney charts hell's "evolution" from the Old Testament underworld Sheol, through history and literature ...Show more
Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Janet Malcolm's In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer, as well as her biographies of Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein, are canonical in the realm of nonfiction - as is the title essay of this collection, with its forty-one "false starts," or serial attempts to capture the essence of t ...Show more
The Mobius Strip: Dr. August Mobius's Marvelous Band in Mathematics, Games, Literature, Art, Technology, and Cosmology by Clifford A. Pickover
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The road that leads from the Mobius strip -- a common-sense-defying continuous loop with only one side and one edge, made famous by the illustrations of M.C. Escher -- goes to some of the strangest spots imaginable. It takes us to where the purely intellectual enters our world: where our senses, overloa ...Show more
BLACKWATER - THE RISE OF THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL MERCENARY ARMY by JEREMY SCAHILL
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad's Nisour Square leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled "Baghdad's Bloody Sunday," was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor U. S. soldiers. The shooters were private forces workin ...Show more
The Pen and the Stethoscope by Leah Kaminsky
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The Pen and the Stethoscope is a unique collection of fiction and non-fiction by doctor-writers that gives us a fascinating look behind the doctor's mask and gets inside the minds of those who deal with enormous existential issues and traumatic situations on a daily basis. It is through writing that man ...Show more