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14 produkter
Berlin Before and After
A Cautionary Mirror for Our Times
Av Wendy Lesser
Inbunden, 2026
376 kr
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Delightfully original, brilliantly conceived, witty, and poignant.' Brenda Wineapple Berlin is more than a city; it's a survivor, an enigma, and a mirror to the world, a unique place whose recent past holds essential lessons for us today. IIn 1929, Berlin stood at a precipicealive with art, …
Music for Silenced Voices
Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets
Av Wendy Lesser
Häftad, 2012
202 kr
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A new biography of Shostakovich that views him through the intimate music of his string quartetsMost previous books about Dmitri Shostakovich have focused on either his symphonies and operas, or his relationship to the regime under which he lived, or both, since these large-scale works were the …
Genius of Language
Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongue
Av Wendy Lesser
E-bok, 2009
87 kr
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Fifteen outstanding writers answered editor Wendy Lesser’s call for original essays on the subject of language–the one they grew up with, and the English in which they write.Despite American assumptions about polite Chinese discourse, Amy Tan believes that there was nothing discreet about the …
Room for Doubt
Av Wendy Lesser
E-bok, 2009
182 kr
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Room for Doubt is Wendy Lesser’s account of three separate but interlocking occasions for doubt: her stay in Berlin, a city she had never expected to visit; her unwritten book on the philosopher David Hume; and her long friendship with the writer Leonard Michaels, which constantly broke down and …
Amateur
An Independent Life of Letters
Av Wendy Lesser
E-bok, 2010
205 kr
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In this unusual memoir of the life of the mind, the founding editor of The Threepenny Review reflects upon the choices she has made in pursuit of her vocation as a self-described "eighteenth-century man of letters." Wendy Lesser, one of our shrewdest cultural observers, describes how her education, …
You Say to Brick
The Life of Louis Kahn
Av Wendy Lesser
Häftad, 2018
351 kr
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Born to a Jewish family in Estonia in 1901 and brought to America in 1906, the architect Louis Kahn grew up in poverty in Philadelphia; by the time of his death in 1974, he was widely recognised as one of the greatest architects of his era. Yet this enormous reputation was based on only a handful …
Nothing Remains the Same
Av Wendy Lesser
Häftad, 2003
177 kr
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Wendy Lesser's new book is 'an inspired intellectual romp: part memoir, part criticism, though actually a bracing, larkish reinvention of them both' (Lawrence Weschler). Revisiting her favorite books after the passage of twenty or thirty years, Lesser is stirred by the changes she finds-in the …
Pictures at an Execution
Av Wendy Lesser
Häftad, 1998
314 kr
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This book is about murder—in life and in art—and about how we look at it and feel about it. At the center of Wendy Lesser’s investigation is a groundbreaking legal case in which a federal court judge was asked to decide whether a gas chamber execution would be broadcast on public television. Our …
Why I Read
Av Wendy Lesser
Häftad, 2015
225 kr
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Wendy Lesser's extraordinary alertness, intelligence, and curiosity have made her one of America's most significant cultural critics, writes Stephen Greenblatt. In Whyl Read, Lesser draws on a lifetime of pleasure reading and decades of editing to describe a life lived in and through literature. As …
Genius of Language
Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongue
Av Wendy Lesser
Häftad, 2005
201 kr
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Table Talk
From the Threepenny Review
Av Mimi Chubb, Jennifer Zahrt m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
185 kr
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Table Talk is a portable dinner party and a book to read alone while laughing out loud. Table Talk is a salon attended by your smartest friends and by all of the wittiest people they know. Table Talk is a collection of brief but critically acclaimed, half serious/half tongue-in-cheek pieces that …
Jerome Robbins
A Life in Dance
Av Wendy Lesser
Inbunden, 2018
235 kr
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From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a lively and inspired biography celebrating the master choreographer, dancer, and stage director Jerome Robbins"A compact and incisive portrait of the great dancer and choreographer."—Kirkus Reviews"This brisk biography . . . is light and bright, utterly …
