Category: Essays

A lo largo de dos décadas, Jesús Ruiz Mantilla ha sido cronista musical en el diario El País. Contar l. a. música recoge gran parte de su experiencia en ese campo. Una obra que resume el oficio al que se ha dedicado apasionadamente a través de sus encuentros con figuras de primer nivel, pero que le ha llevado a l. a. conclusión desde el propio título, de que resulta una utopía imposible de cumplir. Diferentes protagonistas -creadores e intérpretes- nos acercan a su experiencia con los angeles música. Entrevistas a grandes directores de nuestra época, desde Daniel Barenboim a Claudio Abbado, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti o Gustavo Dudamel, pianistas de los angeles talla de Brendel, Pollini, Zimerman, Sokolov, Maria Joao Pires o el conocimiento profundo de fenómenos como el sistema de orquestas venezolano de José Antonio Abreu, los angeles orquesta de israelíes y palestinos, West-Eastern Divan o l. a. eclosión de pianistas chinos ayudan a comprender el fascinante landscape creativo de l. a. música clásica actualmente

C’est un fait : Hemingway était un homme à femmes. Seulement l’auteur du Vieil homme et l. a. mer ne se contentait pas d'enchaîner les histoires d’amour. Il a voulu épouser ses maîtresses. L’une après l’autre, à l’issue d’un scénario qui ne variait que de quelques lignes, il en a fait des Mrs. Hemingway : los angeles ardour initiale, les fêtes, l’orgueil de hisser son couple sur le devant d’une scène – l. a. Côte d’Azur, le Paris bohème, l. a. Floride assoiffée, Cuba, l’Espagne bombardée… – puis l’alcool, les démons, les noires pensées dont chacune de ses femmes espérait le sauver.
Naomi wooden se penche sur los angeles determine d’un colosse aux pieds d’argile, et redonne l. a. voix à celles qui ont sacrifié un peu d’elles-mêmes pour en ériger le mythe.
"Derrière los angeles légende hyper-masculine se trouvait un homme dont quatre femmes, sur quatre décennies, étaient tombées follement amoureuses. Toute sa vie, il a entretenu avec elles des relatives qui donnent à voir une half de sa personnalité laissée de côté par les biographies classiques de l’écrivain. Mrs. Hemingway tente de raconter l’histoire de ces quatre femmes, qui se sont toutes retrouvées à l. a. fois dans le rayonnement et dans l’ombre du grand homme."
Naomi Wood.

'Every guy want to be God, if it have been attainable; a few few locate it tough to confess the impossibility.' - Bertrand Russell
From 1931-1935 Bertrand Russell used to be one of many general participants to the literary pages of the New York American, including different wonderful authors, akin to Aldous Huxley and Vita Sackville-West. Mortals and Others quantity II offers one other choice of his essays, starting from the politically right, to the superbly imprecise: from The clients of Democracy to Men as opposed to Insects.
even supposing written within the politically heated weather of the Thirties, those essays are strangely topical and fascinating for the current day reader. quantity II of Mortals and Others serves as a appropriate, clean creation to the compassionate eclecticism of Bertrand Russell's mind.

Dans une série d’articles, Alaa El Aswany, observateur engagé dans les bouleversements sociaux de l’Égypte, dresse le tableau des effets de los angeles faith sur los angeles vie quotidienne des Égyptiens.

Der große Historiker Raul Hilberg hat mit seinem Werk ›Die Vernichtung der europäischen Juden‹ die Erforschung des Holocaust maßgeblich geprägt. Auch sein Buch ›Täter, Opfer, Zuschauer‹ ist in der Debatte um die Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus bis heute zentral.

Der 2007 verstorbene Doyen der Holocaust-Forschung hat einen reichhaltigen Fundus an wichtigen Texten hinterlassen, die bislang nicht ins Deutsche übersetzt wurden. Im Band ›Anatomie des Holocaust‹ liegt nun erstmals eine Auswahl dieser Texte auf Deutsch vor. Es geht darin um bis heute kontroverse Fragen zur Geschichte des Holocaust, etwa die Rolle der Judenräte, die purpose der Deutschen für die Verfolgung und Ermordung der Juden und die Frage der moralischen Verantwortung.

Zugleich runden sehr persönliche Texte das Bild ab: So beschreibt Raul Hilberg seine bewegende Reise nach Auschwitz als Mitglied der Holocaust-Kommission 1979 und erzählt, wie er seine Arbeit als Holocaust-Forscher empfunden hat. Ein Band, der uns den Menschen und Historiker Raul Hilberg neu entdecken lässt.

Iss Kitab Ko Padhkar Iss Desh kay AAM AADMI kay Sangharsh ka Pura Safar Aankhon kay Saamney aa gaya.Ek Prem Kahani ko Pichley three saal Kay Saamaajik aur Rajneetik aandolan ki Prishtbhoomi mein badi khoobsurti sey Piroya Gaya hai .Yeh Kitab Desh ki yuva Peedhi ke mun mein Chal rahey badlaav ki baichaineeyon kay Safar ko Bayaan Karti Hai - Arvind Kejriwal
Ye Kahani Jai Jeevit aur Raanu ki mohabbat ki aur utni hee ye kahani hai aaj ke parivesh ki .Ye aaeena hai badalti Dilli ka – jo gavah hai ek nayi Soch,ek nayi oorjaa aur ek nayi Raajneeti kay uday ka.
Ye AAP ki bhi kahani hai – Dilli kay Gali koochon se hota iska asar desh ki soch,jantantra se logon ki apekshaaon aur purane dharrey par chal rahi Rajneeti aur Rajneytaon ko mil rahi chunoti ka bhi safar tai karti hai. Yeh upannyas rajneetik halchalon ki sirf bahari daastaan bhar nahi hai,bulkee yeh aandolan ki androoni gatividhiyon se ru-ba-ru hone ka moka bhi deta hai.
Jeevit aur raanu jaise jaise apne rishte mein aagey badhte hain waisey-waisey vey krantikaari budlaav kay saakshi aur sehyaatri bhi buntey hain – Anna,Anshan,Arvind se hoti hui “AAP” ki iss yatra par aaeye nikal paden.

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if it is getting the news on insider impact or anointing online game changers, Caravan has made a spot for itself within the minds of readers in India and past, profitable numerous awards and accolades and showcasing the best writers and thinkers in long-form journalism. Twelve definitive profiles of our brokers of switch are awarded during this quantity, with new perception from their authors on their position in modern Indian heritage: Praveen Donthi on finance minister Arun Jaitley; Leena Reghunath on Swami Aseemanand; Krishn Kaushik on former Attorney-General Goolam Vahanvati; Mira Sethi on Pakistan top Minister Nawaz Sharif; Deepak Adhikari on Nepal leading Minister Prachanda; Mark Bergen on Raghuram Rajan; Samanth Subramanian on Sameer Jain; Mehboob Jeelani on Ponty Chadha; Rahul Bhatia on N. Srinivasan; T.M. Krishna on musician M.S. Subbulakshmi; Ali Sethi on Farida Khanum; Baradwaj Rangan on Vikram; and Vinod okay. Jose on top Minister Manmohan Singh.
In this worthy assortment, the pioneering magazine offers a beneficial and far-reaching checklist of our occasions for readers, voters and scholars of journalism alike.

Home—the position the place we have been born, the place we discovered our first classes, the place kin was once outlined. The very proposal inspires strong emotions, emotions as person as our fingerprints, as enduring because the universe and as inescapable as gravity.

In this candid, evocative choice of essays, a various crew of acclaimed authors displays at the various houses, neighborhoods, and studies that assisted in shaping them—using Google Earth software program to revisit the site within the procedure. relocating and life-affirming, this poignant anthology supplies clean perception into the idea that of Home.

This anthology contains 19 essays via an array of numerous award-winning authors, including:

• Tim Johnston, writer of Descent and winner of the O. Henry Prize, the recent Letters Award for Writers, and the Gival Press brief tale Award

• Laura Miller, tradition columnist at Slate and co-founder of Salon.com

• Porochista Khakpour, writer of The final Illusion and recipient of the 2012 nationwide Endowment for the humanities (NEA) Literature Fellowship in inventive Writing (Prose)

• Lee Upton, writer of The Tao of Humiliation, named one in all “Best Books of 2014” via Kirkus Reviews

• Pamela Erens, writer of the seriously acclaimed novel The Virgins

• Jeffery Renard Allen, writer of Song of the Shank and winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and the Whiting Writer's Award

Biographies, poetic compositions, works which are mystical, prophetic, visionary, or meditative: the choices the following replicate the advancements in medieval piety, really within the hyperlink among lady spirituality and the physique. incorporated are the dramatic visionary writings of Hildegard of Bingen; letters and poems via Hadewijch expressing passionate love for God; and Marguerite Porete's allegorical poem "The reflect of straightforward Souls," a discussion among Love and Soul that was once condemned as heretical. additionally incorporated are biographies written by means of male ecclesiastics of girls equivalent to Christine the excellent, whose remarkable habit integrated being resurrected at her personal funeral; revelations obtained via Bridget of Sweden, the 1st girl to stumbled on a spiritual order; and excerpts from The publication of Margery Kempe, within which Margery imagines herself as a servant taking care of the Virgin Mary in her childhood.

This quantity, edited by way of Elizabeth Spearing, who additionally ready many of the translations, encompasses a wealthy creation to the lives and spiritual studies of its matters, in addition to complete explanatory notes.

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This choice of essays examines how university professors train the style of detective fiction and offers perception into how the reader could follow such innovations to his or her personal courses.
Multi-disciplinary in scope, the essays hide instructing within the components of literature, legislation, historical past, sociology, anthropology, structure, gender reviews, cultural reviews, and literary concept. additionally integrated are pattern syllabi, writing assignments, questions for additional dialogue, interpreting lists, and extra aids for direction instruction.