Description |
452 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 438-444) and index. |
Summary |
A collection of both previously unpublished works and classic essays includes discussions of recent cultural and political events, social networking, libraries, and the failure to address global warming. |
Contents |
Northwest London blues -- Elegy for a country's seasons -- Fences : a Brexit diary -- On optimism and despair -- Generation why? -- The house that Hova built -- Brother from another mother -- Some notes on attunement-- Window on the will : Anomalisa-- Dance lessons for writers -- Killing Orson Welles at midnight -- Flaming June -- "Crazy they call me" : on looking at Jerry Dantzic's photos of Billie Holiday -- Alte Frau by Balthasar Denner -- Mark Bradford's Niagara -- A bird of few words : narrative mysteries in the paintings of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye -- The tattered ruins of the map : on Sarah Sze's Centrifuge -- Getting in and out -- Crash by J. G. Ballard -- The Buddha of suburbia by Hanif Kureishi -- Notes on NW -- The Harper's columns -- The I who is not me -- Life-writing -- The bathroom -- Man versus corpse -- Meet Justin Bieber! -- Love in the gardens -- The shadow of ideas -- Find your beach -- Joy. |
Subject |
Literary collections /essays.
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Biography and Autobiography / personal memoirs.
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English essays -- Biography & Autobiography.
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English essays.
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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ISBN |
9781594206252 |
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1594206252 |
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