During her days as a park ranger, Lucia Perillo loved nothing more than to brave the Cascade Mountains alone, taking special pride in her daring solo skis down the raw, unpatrolled slopes of Mount Rainier. Then, in her thirties, she was diagnosed...
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A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a Dog, and a Raven
A wry, cutting deconstruction of the Communist empire by one of Eastern Europe’s exceptional authors.
Called “a perceptive and amusing social critic, with a wonderful eye for detail” by The Washington Post, Slavenka Drakulić—a native of...
The Shadow On The Dial, and Other...
The land is for those who work it.
—“La tierra es de quien la trabaja.”
One hundred kilometers from Seville, there is a small village, Marinaleda, that for the last thirty years has been at the center of a ...
Hi! Here's a book that answers all your questions about skin problems, hair, makeup, dating, figure, clothes, career, diet, pocket money, personality... and gives a lot of other tips that are going to make a more glamorous and a more popular you. It...
The explosive story of the poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and what it reveals about the growing clandestine conflict between the West and Russia
Salisbury, England: March 4, 2018.
Slumped on a bench, paralyzed and barely...
Beginning with "Welcome to South Florida", a chapter introducing such everyday events as animal sacrifice, riots at the beach, and a shootout over limes at the supermarket, this collection organizes over 200 columns into 18 chapters, chronicling...
В древности у китайцев было одно, особо страшное проклятие. Его посылали злейшим врагам. Звучало это проклятие так: «Чтоб ты,...
In The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling, Peter Handke offers three intimate, eloquent meditations that map a self-reflexive journey from Alaska to the Austria of his childhood, while illuminating the act of writing itself. In his "Essay...
Things I Don't Want to Know is a brilliantly insightful longform essay by Deborah Levy.
'Things I Don't Want to Know' is a unique response to George Orwell from one of our most vital contemporary writers. Taking Orwell's famous list of motives...