“Death in the Afternoon” “For Whom the Bell Tolls” “Green Hills of Africa” “Hills like White Elephants” “In Our Time” “Islands in the Stream” “The Fifth Column” “The Old Man and the Sea” “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” ...
Like the fortune teller who sees a long journey in the cards or death by water, they [books] influence the future —Graham Greene Most books, like their authors, are born to die —Joshua Swartz A new book, like a young man, has a reputation to acquire —Clarence Walworth ...
In “On Re-Reading Novels” (1922) Woolf argued that the novel was not so much a form as an “emotion which you feel.” In Jacob’s Room (1922) she achieved such emotion, transforming personal grief over the death of Thoby Stephen into a “spiritual shape.” Though she takes Jacob ...
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death by Henry Marshis the neurosurgeon’s account of being diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer shortly after his retirement. If you have read Marsh’s first two books about his career,Do No HarmandAdmissions, then you will know that he doesn’t sugar co...
day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life....
Release Yourself: Focuses on shedding unnecessary stress. Harmony and Sustainability: Promotes living in balance with oneself and nature, aiming for enduring wellness. The Joy of Little Things: Encourages savoring everyday pleasures. Being in the Here and Now: Highlights the importance of mindfulness ...
one of which falls over the pinhole. Page after page, the two square holes repeat, creating two small dark wells in the field of white, until on the last page they take their place in the cut-out schematic footprint of the city blocks and buildings surrounding the Twin Towers. Whiteread...
"Living I Was Your Plague, O Pope, dead, I will be your death" are the words Martin Luther wrote on the wall, in chalk, the night before he died. They were the epitaph he wanted to be remembered by. This book, by Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxfo...
Winner of the 2023 Jan Michalski Prize, a searing novel of loss and resilience that illuminates the often-overlooked human dimension of the migrant crisis, re-imagining the border as a dreamlike purgatory bridging life and death. Book description ...
The book proves that family bonds can endure through generations and beyond death.We Came Here to ShineSusie Orman SchnallWe Came Here to Shine focuses on the strong female friendship between an aspiring journalist and an unlucky actress at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Leaning on each ...