A collection of diverse essays that is united by the authors reflections on displacement and the yearning to belong.
A collection of diverse essays, united by the author's reflections on displacement and the yearning to belong.
Also of increasing importance were aphorisms after the style of the ancient Roman philosophers Seneca and Epictetus, imaginary dialogues, and historical narratives, and later, journalistic articles and extremely diverse essays.
Trained as a Shakespeare scholar (and tenured at Harvard), she has in the last decade produced flawlessly timed academic crossover books on cross-dressing, bisexuality and dogs -- make that dog love -- in addition to a collection of diverse critical essays.
Published twice annually, each issue chronicles everyday life and the narratives that define it through a diverse collection of essays, interviews, illustrations, and photography.
There is little hint of Smith's culturally diverse background in her essays on (mostly Hollywood) movies and stars; they belong recognizably to an Anglo-American traditiof of writing about cinema that alternates between masochistic reverence and slash-and-burn japery.
This was followed by a series of colourful essays on diverse themes, including time and industrial capitalism, food riots, and wife sales (yes, in the 18th century men really did take their wives to market and "sell" them).
Skyhorse, a Mexican American writer who passed as an American Indian for 25 years, and Page, a biracial woman whose black grandmother passed for white in order to go to college, have gathered an impressively diverse set of new essays on passing that span race, background, class, orientation, and nationality.
Conceived as "a portrait gallery of foreigners conquered by Enlightenment France," Fumaroli's book provides biographical essays about a diverse and fascinating cast of characters.
(Ages 10 and up) Essays by 11 diverse and distinguished children's authors, ranging from the biographers Russell Freedman and Milton Meltzer to the novelists Walter Dean Myers and Lois Lowry.
And yet, that this hasn't quite worked out is probably as it should be, for the essay is so diverse it can't be encapsulated; it's far too idiosyncratic a form.
