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The Next American Essay

The Next American Essay

2003 ·
·4.14·783 Ratings ·488 Pages
“ I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable. ” ― Yunus Emre
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    2016·
    ·4.12·28 Ratings
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    ·4.42·191 Ratings
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    2010·
    ·3.77·947 Ratings
    From “one of the most significant U.S. writers” (David Foster Wallace), an investigation of Yucca Mountain and human destruction in Las Vegas. When John D’Agata helps his mother move to Las Vegas one summer, he begins to follow a story about the fed
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    1995·
    ·4.32·2,548 Ratings
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    1984·
    ·3.9·257 Ratings
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    1995·
    ·4.47·207 Ratings
    Here is a colorful variety pf works by seven Greek poets and philosophers who lived from the eighth to the third centuries BC. Salvaged from shattered pottery vases and tattered scrolls of papyrus, everything decipherable from the remains of these ancient
  • The Hunter Gracchus: And Other Papers on Literature and Art

    1997·
    ·4.24·83 Ratings
    Ranging over art and architecture, religion, and literature, these essays create an extraordinary collage of ideas, commentary, and criticism from one of this country's most brilliant writers. An eclectic stylist who crafts sentences like no one else, Dav
  • The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays

    1981·
    ·4.43·322 Ratings
    In the 40 essays that constitute this collection, Guy Davenport, one of America's major literary critics, elucidates a range of literary history, encompassing literature, art, philosophy and music, from the ancients to the grand old men of modernism.
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