420 results for '"Joyce Rothschild-Whitt'

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction AwardLonglisted for the Joyce Carol Oates AwardLonglisted for the Carol Shields...

When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce’s Ulysses, he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book’s inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONOne of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021Named a Best Book of...

Here is the story, told firsthand through electric, deeply engaged writing, of America’s living theater, high and low, mainstream and experimental.Drawing on history, criticism, memoir, fiction,...

She’s the one that got away. He’s the one that never let her go.#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Done and Dusted and Swift and Saddled, the next book in the Rebel Blue...

"A brilliant selection . . . Canetti's range astonishes." —Claire Messud, Harper'sA career-spanning collection of writings by the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize...

“One of our most interesting and bold writers . . . [offers] a characteristically wild effort that defies genre distinctions, flits from the profound to the mundane with fierce intelligence and...

L'Iliade et l'Odyssée, ces deux monuments de notre culture, revisités par l'un des historiens de l'Antiquité les plus connus dans le monde.Tout le monde a entendu prononcer le nom d'Homère, tout le...

A definitive collection of writings by the legendary Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Murray Kempton (1917-1997) with a foreword by Darryl Pinckney, gathering dozens of columns, essays, and critiques...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismThe first comprehensive selection in any language of the non-fiction--much of it appearing here in English for the first time--of “one of...

A Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic presents an unprecedented collection of the writings of the great composer-critic and father of American classical music, Virgil Thomson Following on the...

Samuel Beckett n'a cessé de lire Dante depuis ses années d'étude à Dublin jusqu'à sa mort, en 1989. Sa lecture n'est pas critique : elle est une source, une énergie qui apparaît, disséminée dans ses...

Language is the life blood of a culture, and to be interested in culture is in some sense to be interested in language, in the shapes and sounds of words, in the history of reading, writing, and...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A poignant and bitterly funny tale of a family struggling to stay together in a country rapidly coming apart, told through the eyes of their wondrous ten-year-old daughter, by...

"Always a step ahead, Baraka in 1964 recorded a reading of his provocative poem, 'Black Dada Nihilimus, ' to the avant-garde jazz of the New York Art Quartet. Tales, a collection of impressionistic...

***2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER******THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER***Winner of the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize Finalist, 2022 Chautauqua Prize Finalist,...

Review "An enormously significant contribution to the fields of modernist and postcolonial literary and cultural studies. Nicholas Brown aims to 're-constellate' modernism and African literature...

WINNER OF THE AMAZON.CA FIRST NOVEL AWARD, 2013 WINNER OF THE DEBUT-LITZER PRIZE, 2013 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE A NEW STATESMAN READ-ALL-ABOUT-IT SELECTION FOR 2012 A BARNES &...