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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xix, 407 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This essential, enlightening, truly delightful collection shows one of our greatest writers parsing the political, artistic, and media landscape of the past three decades. These sixty-six essays and reviews, culled from the pages of The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Harper’s, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker, among others, find Lorrie Moore turning her discerning eye on everything from Philip Roth to Margaret Atwood, from race in...
2) Encounter
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
178 p. : music ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Milan Kundera's new collection of essays is a passionate defense of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty. With the same dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his novels, Kundera revisits the artists who remain important to him and whose works help us better understand the world we live in and what it means to be human. An astute reader of fiction, Kundera brings his extraordinary critical gifts to bear on the...
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