Catapult jul 2022 (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A master of the short form, Gina Berriault stands somewhere between Chekhov and Isaac Babel in style and psychological acuity. 'Berriault writes real fiction . . . She deepens reality, complements it and affords us the bliss of knowing, for a moment, what we cannot know.' The Nation "A wonderful storyteller and a beautiful writer." Grace PaleyThe seven stories"Infinite Passion of Expectation," "Tea Ceremony," "The Mistress," "The Overcoat," "Stolen Pleasures," "Works of the Imagination," and "Women in Their Beds"offer a glimpse into the oeuvre of one of the most celebrated voices in American letters.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For readers of Roberto Bolaño's Savage Detectives and Muriel Spark's Loitering with Intent, this 'sublime' and 'delightfully unhinged' metaphysical mystery disguised as a picaresque romp follows one poet's spectacular fall from grace to ask a vital question: Is everyone a plagiarist (Nicolette Polek, author of Imaginary Museums).A scandal has shaken the literary world. As the unnamed narrator of Dead Souls discovers at a cultural festival in central London, the offender is Solomon Wiese, a poet accused of plagiarism. Later that same evening, at a bar near Waterloo Bridge, our narrator encounters the poet in person, and listens to the story of Wiese's rise and fall, a story that takes the entire nightand the remainder of the novelto tell.Wiese reveals his unconventional views on poetry, childhood encounters with 'nothingness,' a conspiracy involving the manipulation of documents in the public domain, an identity crisis, a retreat to the country, a meeting with an ex-serviceman with an unexpected offer, the death of an old poet, a love affair with a woman carrying a signpost, an entanglement with a secretive poetry cult, and plans for a triumphant return to the capital, through the theft of poems, illegal war profits, and faked social media accountsplans in which our narrator discovers he is obscurely implicated.Dead Souls is a metaphysical mystery brilliantly encased in a picaresque romp, a novel that asks a vital question for anyone who makes or engages with art: Is everyone a plagiarist.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the acclaimed author of the novel Oval comes a book of "fan nonfiction" about living and writing in the age of extinction In this constellation of essays, Elvia Wilk asks what kinds of narratives will help us rethink our human perspective toward Earth. The book begins as an exploration of the role of fiction today and becomes a deep interrogation of the writing process and the self. Wilk examines creative works across time and genre in order to break down binaries between dystopia and utopia, real and imagined, self and world. She makes connections between works by such wide-ranging writers as Mark Fisher, Karen Russell, Han Kang, Doris Lessing, Anne Carson, Octavia E. Butler, Michelle Tea, Helen Phillips, Kathe Koja, Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, and Hildegard von Bingen. What happens when research becomes personal, when the observer breaks through the glass Through the eye of the fan, this collection delves into literal and literary world-building projectsmedieval monasteries, solarpunk futures, vampire role plays, environments devoid of humansbridging the micro and the macro and revealing how our relationship to narrative shapes our relationships to the natural world and to one another.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Now more resonant than ever amid escalating ICE raids and enforcement crackdowns targeting immigrants and American citizens alike, Nobody is Protected is an urgent examination of the U.S. Border Patrolfrom its xenophobic founding to its ongoing assault on the 4th AmendmentLate one July night in 2020, armed men, identified only by the word POLICE written across their uniforms, began snatching supporters of Black Lives Matter off the street in Portland, Oregon, and placing them in unmarked vans. These mysterious actions were not carried out by local law enforcement or even right-wing terrorists, but by the U.S. Border Patrol. Why was the Border Patrol operating so far from the boundaries of the United States What were they doing at a protest that had nothing to do with immigration or the border Nobody Is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States is the untold story of how, through a series of landmark but largely unknown decisions, the Supreme Court has dramatically curtailed the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution in service of policing borders. The Border Patrol exercises exceptional powers to conduct warrantless stops and interrogations within one hundred miles of land borders or coastlines, an area that includes nine of the ten largest cities and two thirds of the American population.Mapping the Border Patrol's history from its bigoted and violent Wild West beginnings through the legal precedents that have unleashed today's militarized force, Guggenheim Fellow Reece Jones reveals the shocking true stories and characters behind its most dangerous policies. With the Border Patrol intent on exploiting current laws to transform itself into a national police force, the truth behind their influence and history has never been more important.…