In this searching and courageous work, Ayn Rand cuts through the haze of sentimentality and vague thinking that surrounds the subject of art. For the first time a precise definition is given to art, and a careful analysis made of its nature. With...
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The bestselling author of Vox and The Fermata devotes his hyperdriven curiosity and magnificently baroque prose to the fossils of punctuation and the lexicography of smut, delivering to readers a provocative and often hilarious celebration of the...
At the height of his powers, Pablo Picasso was the artist as revolutionary, breaking through the niceties of form in order to mount a direct challenge to the values of his time. At the height of his fame, he was the artist as royalty: incalculably...
Written during Olsen's five-month stay at the American Academy in Berlin, There. is part critifictional meditation and part trash diary exploring what happens at the confluence of curiosity, travel, and innovative writing practices. A collage of...
One of Latin America's greatest novelists, Mario Vargas Llosa is also a most acute and wide-ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. Touchstones includes his readings of major twentieth-century novels, from Heart of Darkness...
This book contains a selection of the too numerous addresses which Lewis gave during the late war and the years that immediately followed it. All were composed in response to personal requests and for particular audiences, without thought of...
La bitlibro entenas recenzon fare de E. Lanti pri la «Plena Gramatiko de Esperanto» kaj la du priajn publikajn leterojn interŝanĝitajn de G. Waringhien kaj E. Lanti en «Sennacieca Revuo».
La leteroj prezentas du malsamajn konceptojn pri la...
Twenty rules for writing detective...
« C’est l’histoire d’une Emma Bovary des seventies, qui a reproduit lors de son divorce le silence de la génération précédente sur les malheurs des deux guerres.
C’est l’histoire d’un homme devenu un jouisseur pour...