On Company Time: American Modernism in the Big Magazines (Harris Donal)(Paperback)

On Company Time: American Modernism in the Big Magazines (Harris Donal)(Paperback)

American novelists and poets who came of age in the early twentieth century were taught to avoid journalism 'like wet sox and gin before breakfast.' It dulled creativity, rewarded sensationalist content, and stole time from 'serious' writing. Yet Willa Cather, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, James

The Best American Magazine Writing 2020 (Holt Sid)(Paperback)

The Best American Magazine Writing 2020 brings together outstanding writing, from in-depth reporting to incisive criticism. The anthology features excerpts from major projects that challenge American certitudes: the Washington Post Magazine's 'Prison' issue, detailing the scope of mass

The Best American Magazine Writing 2019 (Holt Sid)(Paperback)

The Best American Magazine Writing 2019 presents articles honored by this year's National Magazine Awards, showcasing outstanding writing that addresses urgent topics such as justice, gender, power, and violence, both at home and abroad. The anthology features remarkable reporting, including the

The Truths We Hold: An American Journey (Harris Kamala)(Paperback)

The #1 New York Times bestseller From Vice President Kamala Harris, one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country

Modernism: The Basics (Winkiel Laura)(Paperback)

Modernism: The Basics provides an accessible overview of the study of modernism in its global dimensions. Examining the key concepts, history and varied forms of the field, it guides the reader through the major approaches, outlining key debates, to answer such questions as: What is modernism?

Big Stone Gap (Trigiani Adriana)(Paperback / softback)

The first in the BIG STONE GAP series. The ultimate Small Town American novel, set in the Blue Ridge Mountains in

Tent Life in Siberia (Kennan George)(Paperback)

In the 1860s, a Russian-American Telegraph Company sent a survey team to explore a proposed route for an overland telegraph line that would connect the United States and Europe by way of Siberia and across the Bering Strait. Although the expedition failed, it marked one of the first explorations of

Good Hunting: In Pursuit of Big Game in the West (Roosevelt Theodore)(Paperback)

Written in the late nineteenth century and first published in Harper's Round Table magazine in 1896, this collection of articles details turn-of-the-century America's rugged wilderness. Good Hunting is an engaging read for those whose interests lie in hunting sports, and nature. Roosevelt, being

Gillespie and I (Harris Jane)(Paperback / softback)

Back in 1888, the young, art-loving Harriet arrives in Glasgow at the time of the International Exhibition. After a chance encounter she befriends the Gillespie family and soon becomes a fixture in all of their lives. But when tragedy strikes the promise and certainties of this world all too

The Senses of Modernism (Danius Sara)(Paperback)

In The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high modernism. The author closely analyzes Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, and James Joyce's Ulysses as narratives of the sweeping changes that

Best American Noir of the Century (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

The Big Nowhere , LA Confidential and White Jazz. In his intoduction to The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, 'noir is the most scrutinised offshoot of the hard-boiled school of

Late Modernism (Fitzpatrick Anne)(Paperback)

An examination of the art movement known as Late Modernism from its beginnings in the 1940s to its decline in the 1970s, including an introduction to great artists and

Modernism: A Very Short Introduction (Butler Christopher)(Paperback)

Modernism ushered in some of the most exciting innovations in art and literature, from Fauvism, Cubism, and Dada, to the novels of James Joyce and Franz Kafka, to such provocative works as Marcel Duchamp's 'Fountain.' But Modernism also left many people puzzled in its wake. How can a routine

The Best American Magazine Writing 2017 (Holt Sid)(Paperback)

With the work of reporters under fire worldwide, this year's anthology of National Magazine Award finalists and winners is a timely reminder of the power of journalism. The pieces included here explore the fault lines in American society. Shane Bauer's visceral 'My Four Months as a Private Prison

The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald F. Scott)(Paperback)

'One of the most important works in American literature -- and, to many, the great American novel.' -- Time. 'I want to write something new, ' F. Scott Fitzgerald told his editor, Maxwell Perkins, 'something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned.' A century later,

The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy (Lemann Nicholas)(Paperback)

The widely acclaimed study of what's gone wrong in American higher education. What do we know about the history, origin, design, and purpose of the SAT? Who invented it, and why? How did it acquire such a prominent and lasting position in American education? The Big Test reveals the ideas, people,

Swingin' London: A Field Guide (Worden Mark)(Paperback)

The term Swinging London entered the language in 1965 when Time magazine ran a cover story on the subject. More than fifty years later, the idea is still very much alive. This book takes the reader to the places that made London swing. Fully illustrated throughout, Swingin' London: A Field Guide

In the Company of Others (Karon Jan)(Paperback)

Follow Father Tim and Cynthia on their journey to research his Kavanagh ancestry in the Irish countryside. Vacation--the very word has been foreign to Episcopal priest Tim Kavanagh. Now retired from tending his flock in the village of Mitford, he is making good on a promise to show his wife,

American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms (Kyle Chris)(Paperback)

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING FOLLOW-UP TO AMERICAN SNIPERJoin Chris Kyle on a fascinating journey to discover 'how 10 firearms changed United States history' (New York Times Book Review)Drawing on his legendary firearms knowledge and combat experience, U.S. Navy SEAL and #1 bestselling author of

No Modernism Without Lesbians (Souhami Diana)(Paperback)

This is the extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place - Paris, between the wars - fostered the birth of the Modernist movement.Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein. A trailblazing publisher; a patron of artists; a society hostess; a

Sweetness of Water (Harris Nathan)(Paperback / softback)

**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING 2021 SELECTION'A fine, lyrical novel, impressive in its complex interweaving of the grand and the intimate, of the personal and political' ObserverLandry and Prentiss are two brothers born into

A Big Life in Advertising (Lawrence Mary)(Paperback)

The first woman president of an advertising agency and the first woman CEO of a company on the New York Stock Exchange tells her 'riveting story: How she shattered every glass ceiling and became a Madison Avenue legend.'* From her role as fledgling copywriter at Doyle Dane Bernbach -- the agency

Rise and Decline of the American Century (Walker William O.)(Pevná vazba)

In 1941 the magazine publishing titan Henry R. Luce urged the nation's leaders to create an American Century. But in the post-World-War-II era proponents of the American Century faced a daunting task. Even so, Luce had articulated an animating idea that, as William O. Walker III skillfully shows in

Bunker Research - The hidden history of modernism in the mountains (Leonard Max)(Paperback / softback)