Art Essays

Previously published as A Private War, Marie Brenner’s Richard Jewell tells a gripping true story of heroism and injustice. In the early morning hours of July 27, 1996, three pipe bombs exploded at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, killing one person and injuring 111 others. Hundreds more potential casualties were prevented by the vigilance and quick actions of security guard Richard Jewell, who uncovered the bombs and began evacuating the area. But no good deed goes unpunished. Investigators and journalists pursued Jewell as a potential suspect.

Life on the Mississippi expresses the full range of Twain's literary personality. It remains the most vivid, boisterous, and provocative account of the cultural and societal history of the Mississippi Valley, from 'the golden age' of steamboating to the violence wrought by the Civil War.

Throughout his 25-year journalistic career, David Carr was noted for his sharp and fearless observations, his uncanny sense of fairness and justice, and his remarkable compassion and wit. His writing was informed both by his own hardships as an addict, and his intense love of the journalist's craft. His range - from media politics to national politics, from rock-n-roll celebrities to the unknown civil servants who make our daily lives function - was broad and often timeless.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

A group of notable writers - including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow - celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past.

When Italian journalist Father Antonio Spadaro and Martin Scorsese first sat down together in Scorsese’s home, neither could have predicted the depth of the conversation, intellectual exchange, or friendship that would result. While discussing the acclaimed director’s film Silence, about the persecution of Jesuits in Japan, they began a dialogue about faith that continues to this day.

女子四人組で旅したインドでは、ヨガとカレー三昧。仕事で訪れたパリでは、お目当てのアップルパイを求めて一人お散歩。旅先で出会った忘れられない味と人々。でも、やっぱり我が家が一番! 新しく家族の

寒い日には体と心まで温まるじゃがいもと鱈 のグラタン、春になったら芹やクレソンのし ゃぶしゃぶを。石垣島から届いたパイナップ ルでタルトを焼いたり、ペンギンの仕事場に トンカツの出前をするこ

O ano de 2020 foi praticamente todo passado em isolamento social. Afeito a aglomerações e conhecido por agregar pessoas dos meios mais diversos, o arquiteto Miguel Pinto Guimarães decidiu usar esse tempo para conversar com amigos em lives abertas ao grande público. E o que começou com a ideia de discutir questões envolvendo arquitetura e urbanismo acabou cobrindo uma série de temas debatidos com figuras de grande destaque em múltiplas áreas, como Gilberto Gil, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Sonia Guajajara, Regina Casé, Guga Chacra, Pedro Malan, Marina Silva, Teresa Cristina e muitos outros.

An endlessly entertaining collection of wayward autobiographical tales about a search for a richer life thwarted at every turn by beagles, bureaucrats, and ill-advised love affairs. The unlikely story of how a failed dishwasher, tour guide, cabinet maker, bus driver, bookseller and literary journal publisher became one of Australia's hottest humor essayists.

Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson's passion for dialogue and dissent. Arranged chronologically, Like Love shows the writing, thinking, feeling, reading, looking and conversing that occupied Nelson while writing iconic books such as Bluets and The Argonauts.

Milan Kundera's brilliant 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 ideas that characterizes his bestselling novels, the internationally acclaimed author revisits the artists whose works help us better understand what it means to be human. Elegant, startlingly original, and provocative, Encounter combines many of the author's signature themes with personal reflections and stories.

In this new collection of nonfiction from the celebrated author of Zorrie, Laird Hunt uses fiction as an inspiration, a tool, even an obsession, employing its methods to get to the heart of experience. The “sizzling” work of Jane Bowles colors his wanderings through Palermo while a London museum trip provokes a consideration of taxidermy’s storytelling potential and fairytales blend with echoes of W. G. Sebald, Willa Cather, and László Krasznahorkai.

From bestselling and Booker-nominated author Colm Tóibín comes a beautiful collection of essays ranging from personal memoir to brilliantly acute writing on religion, literature and politics.

This is the first of a series of essays to explore the age-old art of BS. What is BS? How can one master the art of BS? When, where, and how is BS appropriate? A tongue-in-cheek cultural and literary analysis of the history and nature of BS as an art form. Author and narrator Dan Sullivan tackles the subject in his customarily zany way, mixing anecdote, history, science, and of course, biology.

Some people write college essays just to turn in the required assignment, but rare students - through their passion - turn into the assignments as works of art. Five of these were actual assignments for classes in autobiography, bloomsbury, religion, peace studies, one was written just for fun during college years, and the final essay was my actual admissions essay.

The greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing ‘Respect’ or Bob Dylan performing ‘Blind Willie McTell’, have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling when you hear that song again. In Holding the Note, David Remnick writes about the lives and work of some of the greatest musicians, songwriters, and performers of the past fifty years.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

Wie hilft uns Literatur in den dunkelsten und einsamsten Momenten des Lebens? Und wie schreibe ich selbst über den Schmerz ohne Pathos, einfach und klar? Helga Schubert hat so viel bei Anton Tschechow gelernt. Über das Leben und das Schreiben. Helga Schubert erzählt in diesem persönlichen, traurig-schönen Buch von ihrer ersten Begegnung mit Tschechow, ihrer ersten Lektüre seiner Erzählung "Gram", die sie erschüttert und gerettet hat.

El mundo que habitó Ramón López Velarde, quebrado por la Revolución mexicana y por la separación sibilina entre la provincia y la metrópoli fingida oposición entre costumbre y decadencia-, es uno de los periodos más complejos de la historia de México. Contubernio de voces, reflejo plural de una época convulsa, elaboración de la provincia "diamantina".