Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
By: Salman Rushdie
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Newly collected, revised, and expanded nonfiction--including many texts never previously in print--…
Want to Read $ 15.99"The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame."-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
"…Shakespeare is both my door knocker and the owner of the domains to which the knock admits me, at once my Virgil opening the gates of hell and heaven, and the devil, and God, and I say this as a person who believes in neither God nor the devil, I believe only in Virgil…"-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
"In America, if you dismiss religion from a lecture podium, you often hear noises of shock: gasps, sharp intakes of breath. In America, you can't be elected dogcatcher if you can't prove that you go to church every Sunday and have a close relationship with the priest there."-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
"Christopher came to believe that the people who understood the dangers posed by radical Islam were on the right, that his erstwhile comrades on the left were arranging with one another to miss what seemed to him like a pretty obvious point; and so, never one to do things by halves, he made what looked to many people like a U-turn"-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
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1. Venezia è un pesce. Una guida
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Format: 126 pages, Paperback
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"Life is a cat asleep on the window sill suddenly waking as it falls from the third floor."-Tiziano Scarpa, Venezia è un pesce. Una guida
2. The Last Summer of Reason
By: Marjolijn De Jager , Tahar Djaout
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Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
This elegantly haunting work of fiction features bookstore owner Boualem Yekker, who lives in a cou… read more
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3. A Burnt-Out Case
By: Graham Greene , Giles Foden
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"The more bare a life is, the more we fear change."-Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case
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4. Hitch 22: A Memoir
By: Christopher Hitchens
4.02
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States … read more
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"Cheap booze is a false economy."-Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
" Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony."-Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
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"What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime."-Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
5. Nobody Knows My Name
By: James Baldwin
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Told with Baldwin's characteristically unflinching honesty, this collection of illuminating, deeply… read more
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6. Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds
By: David Toop
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7. The Beauty Queen of Leenane
By: Martin McDonagh
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Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comi… read more
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8. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
By: Lu Xun , 魯迅 , William A. Lyell
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2.60
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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10. Kuchnia książek
By: Kim Jee-hye
3.69
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Życie jest jak regał z książkami, nigdy nie wiesz, jaka Ci się trafi. Mieszkająca w Seulu Yujin … read more
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11. Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.14
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
When Amitav Ghosh began his research for the Ibis Trilogy some twenty years ago, he was startled to… read more
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12. Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
By: Margaret Atwood
4.07
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
This brilliant selection of essays—funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient—seeks ans… read more
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"However, this does not make The Handmaid’s Tale a “feminist dystopia"-Margaret Atwood, Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
"Do you as a writer expand the meanings of words, or are you merely their tool? Is your own language programming you like a computer, or are you wielding it like Prospero’s magic charms, and is there …"-Margaret Atwood, Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
13. The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
By: Wolfram Eilenberger
3.92
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14. Acts of God
By: Kanan Gill
3.92
Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition
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15. The Greatest Evil is War
By: Chris Hedges
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war by one of our finest war correspondent… read more
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17. Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
By: Salman Rushdie
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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"The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame."-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
"…Shakespeare is both my door knocker and the owner of the domains to which the knock admits me, at once my Virgil opening the gates of hell and heaven, and the devil, and God, and I say this as a per…"-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
"In America, if you dismiss religion from a lecture podium, you often hear noises of shock: gasps, sharp intakes of breath. In America, you can't be elected dogcatcher if you can't prove that you go t…"-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
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By: Santiago Roncagliolo
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Format: 448 pages, Paperback
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20. What's Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service
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21. The School of Restoration: The story of one Ugandan woman who has given hope to hundreds of female survivors of war and violence
By: Alice Achan
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