A cup of sake beneath the cherry trees

Moonlight, spring blossom, a woman's hair - a medieval Japanese monk reflects on idle moments and life's fleeting joy.

On the beach at night alone

The visionary nineteenth-century American poet celebrates nature and the human spirit in these verses from Leaves of Grass

The doorman

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9781250437921

Collation

388 p. ; 22 cm

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823 PAV t

The dawn of everything: a new history of humanity

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful …

Transcription

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780374618599

Collation

130 p. ; 22 c

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823 LER t

Minor feelings: a reckoning on race and the Asian condition

For Cathy Park Hong, they experience the shame and difficulty of "minor feelings". The daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up in America steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these "minor feelings" occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality. With sly humour and a poet's searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal i…

Days of love and rage

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9781668062173

Collation

582 p. ; 24 cm

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959 GOP d

Lost lambs

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780374619237

Collation

320 p. ; 21 cm

Series Title

-

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823 CAS l

In the margins: on the pleasures of reading and writing

In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as “an oracle among authors”. Here, in these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. She writes about her influences, her struggles, and her formation as both a reader and a writer; she describes the perils of “bad language” and suggests w…

Chernobyl, life and other disaster

Genya—the nickname of the book’s author and story’s protagonist, Yevgenia—knows from age five that she wants to be an artist. When she turns eleven, she’ll apply to the same prestigious art school that her mother attended. But making the cut won’t be easy, especially with the school’s open-secret rule that no more than 1% of the student body can be Jewish. The years before Geny…