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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 >>>     sort list by title | author Games Without Rules The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan Tamim Ansary Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real; but it sits atop an older struggle, between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist... Both Flesh & Not Essays David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace was beloved for his inimitable voice and wit-and, for many of his readers, admired as much for his astonishingly perceptive and inventive essays as he was for his fiction. Both Flesh and Not gathers fifteen of Wallace's seminal... Hallucinations Oliver Sacks In another fascinating work, Sacks (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat) unravels the mysteries of the mind in this neurological investigation of a mysterious, yet surprisingly common phenomenon. Using patient stories and personal anecdotes as... Detroit City Is the Place to Be The Afterlife of an American Metropolis Mark Binelli Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country’s greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. Sasha and Emma The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman Paul Avrich, Karen Avrich Sasha and Emma is the culminating work of acclaimed historian of anarchism Paul Avrich. Before his death, Avrich asked his daughter to complete his magnum opus. The resulting collaboration, epic in scope, intimate in detail, examines the possibilities... The Voice Is All The Lonely Victory of Jack kerouac Joyce Johnson A groundbreaking portrait of Kerouac as a young artist—from the award-winning author of Minor Characters. In The Voice is All, Joyce Johnson, author of the classic memoir, Door Wide Open, about her relationship with Jack Kerouac, brilliantly peels away.. Joseph Anton A Memoir Salman Rushdie On February 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called... I'm Your Man The Life of Leonard Cohen Sylvie Simmons Beautifly written, impossible to put down, and an absolute must for any Cohen fan! Or, for that matter, for any fan of the worlds of travel, religion and poetry, as well as the inner workings of the music industry. Cohen was such an interesting man... How Music Works David Byrne How Music Works is David Byrne's remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. In it he explores how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place, and he explains how the advent of recording technology... Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story A Life of David Foster Wallace D. T. Max The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his... Mortality Christopher Hitchens Mortality is the exemplary story of one man's refusal to cower in the face of the unknown, as well as a searching look at the human predicament. Crisp and vivid, veined throughout with penetrating intelligence, Hitchens's testament is a courageous... Fire in the Ashes Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America Jonathan Kozol In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly... Winter Journal Paul Auster Facing his sixty-third winter, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster sits down to write a history of his body and its sensations—both pleasurable and painful. Thirty years after the publication of The Invention of Solitude, in which he wrote... Subversives The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power Seth Rosenfeld Subversives traces the FBI's secret involvement with three iconic figures at Berkeley during the 1960s: the ambitious neophyte politician Ronald Reagan, the fierce but fragile radical Mario Savio, and the liberal university president Clark Kerr... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 >>>