From his continuing lecture series, he gathered his Essays into two volumes (1841, 1844), which made him internationally famous.
"The Future of Conservatism: Conflict and Consensus in the Post-Reagan Era," edited by Charles W. Dunn of Regent University (that's Pat Robertson's school, itself a counterestablishment pillar), gathers essays by 11 conservative thinkers, some prominent and all intelligent.
Edited by Giles Foden, the new book is a companion of sorts to Class Work, published in 1996 to coincide with the programme's 25th anniversary, but whereas the previous volume was essentially a collection of early stories by the programme's alumni, Body of Work gathers essays and poems reflecting on the programme's history and the experiences of its students.
Grandmasters and amateurs, octogenarians and juniors, first-time attenders and 50th-time veterans have gathered to essay their queen's gambits and Sicilian defences in a competition that will finally end on Tuesday – chess is nothing if not slow burn.
"Democratic Capitalism and Its Discontents" gathers 10 essays by Brian C. Anderson, a conservative journalist who deserves to find a following.
THE subtitle of Julian Barnes's new collection is somewhat misleading: aside from a beautifully written preface, the essays gathered here are not about France.
During this period Ivanov published articles, the philosophical and aesthetic essays gathered in the book Borozdy i mezhi (1916; "Furrows and Boundaries"), and the historico-philosophical and political pieces in Rodnoye i vselenskoye (1917; "Native and Universal").
The 24 essays gathered here came about when distinguished writers were given what sounds like a most appealing brief: choose a museum that has played a part in your life, go back and write about it.
He loved playing the fool, describing his aesthetic theories, the authentic fruit of his genius, in a semiliterate patois familiar to anyone who has read his letters or scanned the titles of his essays (gathered, for example, in a volume called "Guide to Kulchur").
This background no doubt contributed to Alex's dislike of conventional boundaries and eventually to the impassioned opposition to binary thinking ("us and them; black and white; good and evil; civilisation and barbarism") expressed in the essays gathered in On Art and War and Terror, and On Good and Evil and the Grey Zone.
