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The Man of the Crowd - an Edgar Allan Poe Short Story

"The Man of the Crowd" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe.

An unnamed narrator is sitting in a coffee shop in London. He is fascinated by the crowd outside the window and considers how…

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Ficciones

The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obse…

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The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness

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Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a pr…

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Are Prisons Obsolete?

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly…

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Females

Everyone is female "When I say that everyone is female, I mean very simply that everyone wants to be a woman. What one does with this desire is what we call gender." So begins Andrea Long Chu's invest…

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Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend

La figura di Stalin occupa una posizione centrale nella storia del Novecento. Dittatore sanguinario ma anche organizzatore di un impero dalle dimensioni immense, creatore dei gulag e distruttore dei l…

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The Third Policeman

The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel …

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Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

A Fortune best nonfiction book of 2023

In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas shows how free marketeers are realizing their ultimate goa…

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The Aeneid

The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately verse in a vivid, contemporary idiom.

Like Emily Wilson’s celebrated translations of Homer, this new Aen…

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Dr. No

A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star keeps rising

The protagonist of Percival Everett’s puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathe…

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Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life

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New Science

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The Agony of Eros

An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.

Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new…

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Dagon

"Dagon" is the second story of the writer H.P.Lovecraft, written in 1917 and published ,for the first time, in 1919. The work takes its title from the mythological God Dagon, and tells a disturbing st…

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