Essays
Essais littéraires et philosophiques en anglais
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12 BYTES - HOW WE GOT HERE. WHERE WE MIGHT GO NEXT.
Jeanette Winterson
- Jonathan cape
- 3 June 2021
- 9781787332478
Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. Adopted by Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and didn''t work out. Discovering early the power of books she left home at 16 to live in a Mini and get on with her education. After graduating from Oxford University she worked for a while in the theatre and published her first novel at 25. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is based on her own upbringing but using herself as a fictional character. She scripted the novel into a BAFTA-winning BBC drama. 27 years later she re-visited that material in the bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? She has written 10 novels for adults, as well as children''s books, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London. She believes that art is for everyone and it is her mission to prove it.
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FROM WHAT IS TO WHAT IF (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
HOPKINS ROB
- Chelsea green pub
- 25 August 2020
- 9781645020288
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The bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works. The irrealis mood knows no boundaries between what is and what isn''t, between what happened and what won''t. In more ways than one, the essay about the artists, writers, and great minds gathered in this volume have nothing to do with who I am, or who they were, and my reading of them may be entirely erroneous. But I misread them the better to read myself. From meditations on subway poetry and the temporal resonances of an empty Italian street, to considerations of the lives and work of Sigmund Freud, Constantine Cavafy, W. G. Sebald, John Sloan, eric Rohmer, Marcel Proust, and Fernando Pessoa, and portraits of cities such as Alexandria and St. Petersburg, Homo Irrealis is a deep reflection of the imagination''s power to shape our memories under time''s seemingly intractable hold.
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TINY MOONS: A YEAR OF EATING IN SHANGHAI (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
POWLES NINA MINGYA
- Emma press
- 27 May 2021
- 9781912915347
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ESSAY WRITING SKILLS : ESSENTIAL TECHNIQUES TO GAIN TOP MARKS
CONNELLY JACQUELINE
- Kogan page
- 7 May 2021
- 9780749463915
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A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun .
''Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language'' On 10 June 2020, the scholar James Nwoye Adichie died suddenly in Nigeria.
In this tender and powerful essay, expanded from the original New Yorker text, his daughter, a self-confessed daddy''s girl, remembers her beloved father. Notes on Grief is at once a tribute to a long life of grace and wisdom, the story of a daughter''s fierce love for a parent, and a revealing examination of the layers of loss and the nature of grief.
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ART OF SOLITUDE (THE)(LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
SEAGER ZACHARY
- Collector's library
- 29 April 2021
- 9781529032628
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WHY FRIENDSHIP MATTERS (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
MENDELSSOHN MICHELE
- Collector's library
- 29 April 2021
- 9781529032659
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FUNNY WEATHER: ART IN AN EMERGENCY (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
LAING OLIVIA
- Picador
- 28 April 2021
- 9781529027655
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EVERY BODY: A BOOK ABOUT FREEDOM (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
LAING OLIVIA
- Picador
- 28 April 2021
- 9781509857111
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Rachel Kushner is the author of The Mars Room , which was shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. Her previous novels, Telex from Cuba and The Flamethrowers , were both New York Times bestsellers and finalists for the National Book Award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker , Harper''s and the Paris Review . She lives in Los Angeles.>
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CONSTELLATIONS : REFLECTIONS FROM LIFE (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
GLEESON SINEAD
- Pan
- 16 March 2021
- 9781509892778
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spring cannot be cancelled david hockney in conversation with martin gayford
Martin Gayford
- Thames & hudson
- 16 March 2021
- 9780500094365
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SHAKESPEAREAN : ON LIFE & LANGUAGE IN TIMES OF DISRUPTION (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
MCCRUMB ROBERT
- Pan
- 11 January 2021
- 9781509896974
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From one of our most iconic and influential writers: twelve pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of this legendary figure. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, Didion writes about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a visit to William Randolph Hearst''s castle at San Simeon, a reunion of WWII veterans in Las Vegas, and about topics ranging from Nancy Reagan to Robert Mapplethorpe, Martha Stewart and Ernest Hemingway. With an Introduction by Hilton Als, this stunning collection reveals what would become her subjects: the press, politics, California robber barons, women, the act of writing, and her own self-doubt. Each piece is classic Didion: incisive, bemused, and stunningly prescient.
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The first ever collection of stories from the bestselling and beloved author of Swing Time and White Teeth 'Zadie Smith is the best writer of our generation' Gary Shteyngart 'Her dialogue is pitch-perfect, her comic timing masterful... [And] she also delivers a sophisticated commentary on race, gender, class, celebrity and power' Telegraph on Swing Time 'Smith is virtuosic, as ever, on family and friendship, and her ability to write about large-scale social injustice without losing her neutral novelist's gaze is breathtaking' Times Literary Supplement on Swing Time In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life, unknowingly caught in someone else's story of hate and division, resistance and revolt. A mother looks back on her early forays into matters of the human heart - and other parts of the human body - considering the ways in which desire is always an act of negotiation, destruction, and self-invention. A disgraced cop stands amid the broken shards of his life, unable to move forward into a future that holds no place for him. Moral panic spreads like contagion through the upper echelons of New York City - and the cancelled people look disconcertingly like the rest of us. A teenage scion of the technocratic elite chases spectres through a premium virtual reality, trailed by a little girl with a runny nose and no surviving family. We all take a much-needed break from this mess, on a package holiday where the pool's electric blue is ceaselessly replenished, while political and environmental collapse happen far away, to someone else. Interleaving ten completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from the New Yorker and elsewhere, Zadie Smith presents a dizzyingly rich and varied collection of fiction. Moving exhilaratingly across genres and perspectives, from the historic to the vividly current to the slyly dystopian, Grand Union is a sharply alert and prescient collection about time and place, identity and rebirth, the persistent legacies that haunt our present selves and the uncanny futures that rush up to meet us.
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THE BOOK OF GUTSY WOMEN - FAVOURITE STORIES OF COURAGE AND RESILIENCE
Hillary Rodham Clinton Clinton
- Simon & schuster uk
- 4 September 2020
- 9781471172175
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FEMINIST CITY: CLAIMING SPACE IN A MAN-MADE WORLD (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
KERN LESLIE
- Verso
- 26 August 2020
- 9781788739818
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WAY WE'RE WORKING ISN'T WORKING (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
COLLECTIF
- Simon & schuster
- 6 February 2021
- 9781471158407
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