Winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, author of 15 novels, 11 volumes of short stories and a host of essays, herself a white South African known for her courageous activism in the struggle against apartheid, Gordimer has given us so much to be thankful for that it may seem trivial to find fault with her prose style.
Ricoeur's reflections on these matters find expression in his Oneself as Another as well as in a host of essays he has published during the past twenty-five years.
By James Surowiecki November 12, 2008 I'm still making my way through the essays, but you should check out the latest VoxEU e-book, which features a host of short essays by some terrific economists (like Alberto Alesina, Michael Spence, and Dani Rodrik) on what the G-20 should do to fix the global financial system when it meets this Saturday.
Intimately familiar with the history of economic thought and widely read in many fields, producing a major treatise on the nature of probability alongside his famous General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money and a host of penetrating essays, Keynes had a depth of culture that few economists could claim today.
McElwee's Sherman's March, which began as a typical grant-funded historical documentary, became a first-person cri de coeur about love, inspiring a host of confessional essay docs.
This week, The Creators Project will host a series of essays considering what happens when this new work collides with the existing gallery model.
The PBS Web site "The Impact of Gaming" hosts a number of essays on the topic, and NPR has a story that offers a good introduction by focusing on the question: Why do we like violent games, anyway?
In his time as an Americanist at Keele, he published a typically erudite study of Hawthorne and a host of scrupulously well-researched essays.
In my spare time (As if I had any left!), I am an occasional panelist on "The McLaughlin Group," a regular contributor of essays to "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" and a host of several documentaries on the Public Broadcasting System.
I was similarly delighted to find that so many unusual suspects are fans of Haitian author Edwidge Danticat, whom we recently hosted at our gallery for a signing of her book of essays, Create Dangerously.
Eighteen comic essays from the host of "The Daily Show".
