Search results for 'Susan Sontag'

A Slice of Life: A Collection of the Best, and the Tastiest Modern Food Writing

Bonnie Marranca, Betty Harper Fussell

€12.99

A collection of contemporary food writing by a star cast of authors, including Nigella Lawson, Anthony Bourdain, Jane Grigson, Umberto Eco, Alice Walker, and Isabel Allende. Learn More
Regarding the Pain of Others

Susan Sontag

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Regarding the Pain of Others will alter our thinking not only about the uses and meanings of images, but about the nature of war, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience. Learn More
Working the Room: Essays

Geoff Dyer

€23.00

Dyer's breadth of vision and generosity of spirit combine to form a manual for ways of being in - and seeing - the world today. Learn More
Amulet

Roberto Bola’o

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A tour de force, Amulet is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America. Learn More
Styles of Radical Will

Susan Sontag

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This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century. Susan Sontag gives an excoriating account of America's identity and future, a robust and surprising discussion of pornography and other richly rewarding writings on art, film, literature and politics. Learn More
A Roland Barthes Reader

Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag

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An introduction to the thinking of the French intellectual, Roland Barthes, as applied to such diverse topics as Gide, Garbo, striptease, photography and the Eiffel Tower. The pieces in this collection were written over a period of three decades. Learn More
Last Evenings on Earth

Roberto Bolano

€11.00

Haunting, unsettling, evocative, Roberto Bolanã's Last Evenings on Earth is a remarkable book, and as the first of celebrated Chilean author's work to be translated into English (by Chris Andrews), it's the perfect introduction to the man who Susan Sontag called 'the most influential and admired novelist of his generation in the Spanish-speaking world'. Learn More
On Photography

Susan Sontag

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Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere. They have the power to shock, idealise or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. Learn More
The Volcano Lover: A Romance

Susan Sontag

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Susan Sontag's novel is an exquisitely detailed picture of revolution, the fate of nature, art and love. Learn More
A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and a Prayer

Eve Ensler

€9.00

This groundbreaking collection, edited by author and playwright Eve Ensler, features pieces from “Until the Violence Stops,” the international tour that brings the issue of violence against women and girls to the forefront of our consciousness. These diverse voices rise up in a collective roar to break open, expose, and examine the insidiousness of brutality, neglect, a punch, or a put-down. Learn More