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I, Etcetera

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:01:16 +0000

In eight stories, this singular collection of short fiction written over the course of ten years explores the terrain of modern urban life. In reflective, telegraphic prose, Susan Sontag confronts the reader with exposed workings of an impassioned intellect in narratives seamed with many of the themes of her essays–the nature of knowing, our relationship with the past, and the future in an alienated present.

Zuckerman Unbound

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:01:10 +0000

Set in the aftermath of a scandalous bestseller, this novel follows writer Nathan Zuckerman as he grapples with sudden fame and its disorienting consequences. Thrust into the public eye after the success of a novel that scandalizes his family and community, Zuckerman confronts intrusive strangers, moral outrage, and the uneasy burden of artistic freedom. As his father’s health declines and an obsessed fan begins to shadow him, he is forced to reckon with guilt, ambition, and the cost of turning life into art. Part of Philip Roth’s celebrated Zuckerman cycle, the book explores celebrity, Jewish identity, family conflict, and the uneasy boundary between fiction and autobiography. Sharp, darkly comic, and psychologically astute, it will appeal to readers interested in literary fiction that probes the writer’s role in society and the personal fallout of success.

Sophie’s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 19:01:43 +0000

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie’s World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: Who are you? and Where does the world come from? From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning–but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Hot Countries

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:56:44 +0000

Letters from Vatican City

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 19:09:05 +0000

Vatican Concil II (First session): Background and debates

The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico 1517-1521

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 19:26:11 +0000

The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico Bernal Diaz Del Castillo Published by Farrar , Straus and Cudahy, New York, 1956. Bernal DA del Castillo(1495-1584) served under CortA©through the entire Mexican campaign, and his narrative, one of only four extant firsthand accounts, is both an invaluable hirstorical document and a spectacular epic. He was with CortA©when the latter sank the ships, thus committing the small band of conquistadors irrevocably to the Conquest; he was privy to the counsels of the leaders and was at hand when Montezuma was made a prisoner in his own palace. Bernal DA fought in over a hundred battles and skirmishes against an enemy who made living sacrifices of their prisoners. These things he saw and recorded in a bold blunt voice whose immediacy, in Maudslay’s classic translation, reaches across the centuries to invite readers to witness for themselves the horrors and wonders of the initial, apocalyptic clash between two great civilizations.

Yogavataranam: The Translation of Yoga

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 18:23:25 +0000

A New Approach to Sanskrit, Integrating Traditional and Academic Methods and Based on Classic Yoga Texts–for University Courses, Yoga Programs, and Self Study

The Demonic Comedy

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 19:40:44 +0000

Political conditions in the Middle East are splayed open in Roberts’ restless journal, revealing his remarkable if bizarre insider’s interpretation of political events, and the horrendous realities experienced by citizens of the war-torn region. – Booklist Paul William Roberts is a journalist, producer and filmmaker and a scholar of Jewish and Arabic history and religions. He is the author of many books including A War against Truth. Awarded the inaugural PEN Canada/Paul Kidd Courage Award in 2005, he lives in Toronto.

Natasha and other stories

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 18:48:49 +0000

Few readers had heard of David Bezmozgis before May 2003, when Harper’s, Zoetrope, and The New Yorker all printed stories from his forthcoming collection. In the space of a few weeks, America thus met the Bermans-Bella and Roman and their son, Mark-Russian Jews who have fled the Riga of Brezhnev for Toronto, the city of their dreams. Told through Mark’s eyes, the stories in Natasha possess a serious wit and uniquely Jewish perspective that recall the first published stories of Bernard Malamud and Philip Roth, not to mention the work of Jhumpa Lahiri, Nathan Englander, and Adam Haslett. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ First Book Prize for Canada and the Caribbean, the Toronto Book Award, Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction, Koffler Centre of the Arts’ Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for Fiction, the City of Toronto Book Award, the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize for Fiction, and the Moment Magazine Fiction Award Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and the Governor General’s Award for Literature, the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for Best First Collection of Short Fiction in the English Language Named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, a Los Angeles Times’ 1 of the 25 Best Books of the Year, a New York Public Library’s 25 Best Books to Remember, and a Chicago Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year

I Am Charlotte Simmons

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 11:48:49 +0000

Tom Wolfe, the master social novelist of our time, the spot-on chronicler of all things contemporary and cultural, presents a sensational new novel about life, love, and learning–or the lack of it–amid today’s American colleges. Our story unfolds at fictional Dupont University: those Olympian halls of scholarship housing the cream of America’s youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition . . . Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont, sex, cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time. As Charlotte encounters the paragons of Dupont’s privileged elite–her roommate, Beverly, a Groton-educated Brahmin in lusty pursuit of lacrosse players; Jojo Johanssen, the only white starting player on Dupont’s godlike basketball team, whose position is threatened by a hotshot black freshman from the projects; the Young Turk of Saint Ray fraternity, Hoyt Thorpe, whose heady sense of entitlement and social domination is clinched by his accidental brawl with a bodyguard for the governor of California; and Adam Geller, one of the Millennial Mutants who run the university’s independent newspaper and who consider themselves the last bastion of intellectual endeavor on the sex-crazed, jock-obsessed campus–she is seduced by the heady glamour of acceptance, betraying both her values and upbringing before she grasps the power of being different–and the exotic allure of her own innocence. With his trademark satirical wit and famously sharp eye for telling detail, Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons draws on extensive observations at campuses across the country to immortalize the early-21st-century college-going experience.