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Die Kolumnen von Bestsellerautorin Elena Ferrante ("Die Neapolitanische Saga") aus "The Guardian". Seit 2018 schreibt Elena Ferrante eine wöchentliche Kolumne für das Wochenendmagazin der britischen Zeitung "The Guardian". Dabei setzt sich die Autorin der "Neapolitanischen Saga" in persönlichen Miniaturen mit einem breiten Spektrum verschiedener Themen auseinander - unter anderem mit der Kindheit, dem Altern, mit Geschlechterdiskursen und mit ganz Alltäglichem. Sie erzählt von ihrer ersten großen Liebe und warum sie eine Abneigung gegen Ausrufezeichen hat.

New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understanding of time? What will be the defining memory of rock music, five hundred years from today? How...

Kati von Schwerin schleppt ihre große Liebe, die Stadt Berlin, zur Paartherapie. Es war Liebe auf den ersten Besuch: Berlin war prickelnd, sorglos, sexy. Doch nach zwölf Jahren großer Leidenschaft liegt nun alles in Scherben, die Liebe ist erloschen in Dreck, Drogen und Unverbindlichkeiten. Und so schleift Kati von Schwerin Berlin zur Paartherapie, um zu retten, was nicht zu retten ist. In den Sitzungen kommt alles auf den Tisch, die Hosen werden runtergelassen.

Adrienne Rich's influential and landmark investigation concerns both the experience and the institution of motherhood. The experience is her own—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed on all women everywhere. She draws on...

One of the most famous of all literary dogs, Flush was the golden cocker spaniel belonging to Elizabeth Barrett. In this charming and heartfelt biography, Viginia Woolf tells his story: his early days as Miss Mitford's puppy running across the fields in wild abandon and fathering another, then the years spent in his invalid mistress' bedroom in Wimpole Street.

A poetic, roaming work of creativity and intellect Is it possible to live wondrously by fluorescent light? In The Ruin of Magic, award-winning writer Kate Holden joins Katherine May, Maggie Nelson and Andre Aciman in crafting essays of intimate personal experience and sharply informed rumination...

Paesaggi, umori, incontri, riflessioni, racconti di un viaggiatore sterniano che scende con pietas e con humour lungo il vecchio fiume, dalle sorgenti al Mar Nero, ripercorrendo insieme la propria vita e le stagioni della cultura contemporanea, le sue fedi e le sue inquietudini. Un itinerario fra romanzo e saggio che racconta la cultura come esperienza esistenziale e ricostruisce a mosaico, attraverso i luoghi visitati e interrogati, le civiltà dell'Europa centrale - in tutta la complessa varietà dei suoi popoli e delle sue culture.

Hellmuth Karasek unterwegs in Deutschland: Aug in Auge mit seinen Lesern... Hellmuth Karasek erzählt von phantastischen und skurrilen Erlebnissen - und nimmt uns mit auf seine Reisen quer durch die Republik. Als einigermaßen bekannter Autor muss man mit allem rechnen, sagt Hellmuth Karasek: dass einen der Schaffner für den Nobelpreisträger Günter Grass hält, zum Beispiel, und, wenn man den Irrtum aufklärt, mit "Herr Kasarek" anredet; oder dass die Dame an der Hotelrezeption einen unverdrossen "Karadzic" nennt, wie den Kriegsverbrecher.

In his great triptych The Millennium, Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the Big Sur, a section of the California coast where he lived for 15 years. Big Sur is the portrait of a place - one of the most colorful in the United States - and of the extraordinary people Miller knew there.

Heinrich Mann war ein deutscher Romancier, Dramatiker, Novellist und Essayist. In seinen Texten übt er in pointierten, satirischen Formulierungen Kritik an den politischen und gesellschaftlichen Verhältnissen und den sozialen Ungerechtigkeiten seiner Zeit. Den Themen bürgerliche Scheinmoral, Macht und Unterwerfung, Herrschaft und Unterdrückung setzt er eine Welt der Schönheit und Kunst entgegen. Heinrich Mann versteht es, das poetisch-menschliche des Gesellschaftlichen darzustellen.

One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year THE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY STORIES OF LIVES DEVOTED―ABSURDLY! MELANCHOLICALLY! BEAUTIFULLY!―TO THE RUSSIAN CLASSICS No one who read Elif Batuman's first article (in the journal n+1) will ever forget it. "Babel in California" told the true story of...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had “a rough few years.” She described the sessions in a...

Horror movies hold a complicated space in the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist and open to subversive readings. It Came from the Closet features twenty-five original essays by writers speaking to this relationship, through connections both empowering and oppressive. From Carmen Maria Machado on Jennifer’s Body, Jude Ellison S. Doyle on In My Skin, Addie Tsai on Dead Ringers, and many more, these conversations convey the rich reciprocity between queerness and horror.

Amantes son los cuerpos que sonríen antes de comer, que miran a los ojos antes de besar. Su pulsión está orientada al encuentro intersubjetivo, y por ello existe en la dimensión de lo ético. Lo cuerpos amantes desean derrocar el sistema heterosexual racializante y patriarcal porque desean borrar en la mirada de la otra el fantasma de una violencia vivida antes del encuentro entre los cuerpos amantes. Los cuerpos amantes anhelan la alegría de aquellas a quienes aman y se frustran con la herencia de un mundo simbólico que agrede y limita su capacidad de atención...

One-of-a-kind cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman “offers up great facts, interesting cultural insights, and thought-provoking moral calculations in this look at our love affair with the anti-hero” (New York magazine). Chuck Klosterman, “The Ethicist”...

ONE OF THE NEW REPUBLIC'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR “Nothing I’ve read has cut to the heart of the ’00s like Y2K.” — Bustle Perfect for fans of Jia Tolentino and Chuck Klosterman, Y2K is a delightfully nostalgic and bitingly told exploration about how the early 2000s forever changed us...

What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile identities sit alongside those from newly discovered writers of all ages. All of the contributors speak from the heart - sometimes calling for empathy, oftentimes challenging stereotypes, always demanding respect.

Der größte Nutzen, den die Einführung des Sozialismus brächte, liegt ohne Zweifel darin, dass der Sozialismus uns von der schmutzigen Notwendigkeit, für andere zu leben, befreite, die beim jetzigen Stand der Dinge so schwer auf fast allen Menschen lastet. Es entgeht ihr in der Tat fast niemand. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) war ein irischer Schriftsteller, der sich nach Schulzeit und Studium in Dublin und Oxford in London niederließ.

Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism; he laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards; he deplores multiculturalism, Marxism, feminism, neoconservatism, Afrocentrism, and the New Historicism. Insisting instead upon "the autonomy of aesthetic," Bloom places Shakespeare at the center of the Western Canon.....

When Paul Auster was asked to join NPR's Weekend All Things Considered program to tell stories, he turned the proposition on its head: he would let the stories come to him. He invited listeners to submit brief, true-life anecdotes about events that touched their lives. And so the National Story...