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From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend.

A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhoo

The Nobel Prize for Literature 2005 is awarded to English author Harold Pinter, who in his works uncovers the cliff beneath the daily chatter and invades its closed rooms oppression."
(Swedish Academy, 13-October 2005)

In the three decades that Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving, and provocative essays and articles. He engages the work of Nabokov, Kundera, Rushdie, and Vargas Llosa,

One of Latin Am erica's most garlanded novelists—and the recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature—Mario Vargas Llosa is also an acute and wide-ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. Touchstones collects Vargas Llosa'

The book's first section is a tete-a-tete with Emma Bovary; the second traces the gestation and birth of the novel, as well as Flaubert's method, his mania for documentation, and the novel's literary sources; the third situates it in litera

Ten years of world-class journalism from one of Latin America's most influential and controversial men of letters
Since 1977, Mario Vargas Llosa has contributed a biweekly column to Spain's major newspaper, "El Pais," Dubbed "Tou

It was one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century and Tolstoy called it "the greatest of all novels." Yet today Victor Hugo's Les Misérables is neglected by readers and undervalued by critics. In The Temptation of the Impossib

A landmark collection of essays on the Nobel laureate's conception of Latin America, past, present, and future

Throughout his career, the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa has grappled with the concept of Latin America on a global stage. Exami

A provocative essay collection that finds the Nobel laureate taking on the decline of intellectual life

In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of

Spanning thirty years of writing, Making Waves traces the development of the Nobel Prize–winning author Mario Vargas Llosa's thinking on politics and culture, and shows the breadth of his interests and passions. Featured here are astute meditations o

In The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling, Peter Handke offers three intimate, eloquent meditations that map a self-reflexive journey from Alaska to the Austria of his childhood, while illuminating the act of writing itself. In his Essay on Tirednes

作者：John Green

书名：The Anthropocene Reviewed《人类纪》

简介：A deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays from #1 bestselling author John Green.

作者：Seth Rogen

书名：Yearbook《年鉴》

简介：Hi! I’m Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the inside flap (which is a gross phrase) and for w

This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as

With these words Bertrand Russell introduces what is indeed a revolutionary book. Taking as his starting-point the irrationality of the world, he offers by contrast something 'wildly paradoxical and subversive' - a belief that reason should dete

作者：W.E.B. Du Bois, Donald B. Gibson

书名：The Souls of Black Folk《黑人的灵魂》

简介：This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W

作者：Stephen Hawking

书名：Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays《黑洞和小宇宙》

英文简介：NY Times bestseller. 13 extraordinary essays shed new light on

作者：John Barth

书名：Further Fridays: Essays, Lectures, and Other Nonfiction, 1984 - 1994

简介：Every Friday for many years, John Barth has exchanged his weekday

作者: Jennie Orchard,Robert Macfarlane

书名：The Gifts of Reading《阅读的天赋》

英文简介：From the acclaimed author of The Old Ways and Landmarks -- an essay on t

作者: Thomas Mallon

书名：Yours Ever: People and Their Letters《你的永远：人们和他们的信件》

英文简介：From the author of A Book of One’s Own and Stolen Words

作者: Glory Edim, Jesmyn Ward, Lynn Nottage (Contributor), Jacqueline Woodson

书名：Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves《博览群书的

作者: Lorrie Moore

书名：See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary《我们能做什么:文章、批判和评论》

英文简介：A welcome surprise: more than fifty p

作者: Michael Chabon,Ayelet Waldman,Ann Patchett,Brit Bennett,Steven Okazaki

书名：Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases《世

作者: Viet Thanh Nguyen

书名：The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives《无家可归者:难民作家写难民生活》

英文简介：Today the world faces an enormous refugee

作者: Carmen Callil, Mark Haddon

书名：Stop What You're Doing and Read This!《停下你在做的事，看看这个》

英文简介：A mission statement about the transformative