By Eliot Weinberger
A new assortment from “one of the world’s nice essayists” (The long island Times)
The Ghosts of Birds bargains thirty-five essays via Eliot Weinberger: the 1st component to the ebook keeps his associated serial-essay, An Elemental Thing, which attracts the reader into “a vortex for the whole universe” (Boston Review). right here, Weinberger chronicles a nineteenth-century trip down the Colorado River, files the goals of individuals named Chang, and stocks different factually verifiable discoveries that appear too terrific to very likely be actual. the second one part collects Weinberger’s essays on quite a lot of subjects—some of which were released in Harper’s, New York evaluate of Books, and London evaluate of Books—including his infamous overview of George W. Bush’s memoir Decision Points and writings approximately Mongolian artwork and poetry, varied models of the Buddha, American Indophilia (“There is a line, even though jagged, from pseudo-Hinduism to Malcolm X”), Béla Balázs, Herbert learn, and Charles Reznikoff. This assortment proves once more that Weinberger is “one of the bravest and sharpest minds within the usa” (Javier Marías).
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