Poverty, By America The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author ofEvictedreimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. “Urgent and accessible . . . Its moral force is a gut punch.”—The...
The books being compared to frowzy old broads are telephone directories in phone booths. There is no frigate like a book —Emily Dickinson Dickinson’s simile serves as both title and first line for one of her best known poems. Volumes [of books produced in America] by the dozens like do...
My interest in Chinese History was sparked in 2006 when I spent six months teaching English in Hainan province. In order to better understand my experiences in China, on my return to the UK I decided to take a Chinese History module taught byDr Christian Hessduring my undergraduate degree in ...
This was a funny and refreshing memoir about an English journalist and his NYC based girlfriend buying an old plantation in rural Mississippi – having never been there or researched the area. Its an exploration about taking care of an old house but also about trying to learn and understand t...
In this thought-provoking book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Evicted” presents a fresh perspective on the ongoing debate surrounding poverty in America. Challenging conventional beliefs, the author proposes a compelling argument: poverty endures because the rest of society derives some form ...
Is the Southwest America’s obscure hinterland — or its rightful heartland? Jan. 7, 2025 Constantly anxious? Ease your mind by asking yourself this one question Jan. 7, 2025 Paco Ignacio Taibo II: A book-reading advocate in the era of TikTok ...
How Virginian, then, was America? How heavily did American economic opportunity and political freedom rest on Virginia’s slaves?... [In] Philadelphia and New York and Boston... the poor were... growing in numbers... Would Northerners have embraced republican ideas of equality so readily if ...
Chapter 3: talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person Chapter 4: ask questions instead of giving direct orders Chapter 5: let the other person save face Chapter 6: praise every slightest improvement, be lavish in your praise ...
A father and his young son, “each the other’s world entire”, trawl across the ruins of post-apocalyptic America in this terrifying but tender story told with biblical conviction. The slide into savagery as civilisation collapses is harrowing material, but McCarthy’s metaphysical efforts to ...
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