Essays
The Jazz Age: Essays
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A short collection of essays about the Jazz Age by the writer who epitomized it, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Karmic Traces: Essays
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For the past twenty years, Eliot Weinberger has been taking the essay far beyond the borders of literary criticism or personal journalism and into...
Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip-Mining of American Culture
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Passionate observers across the political/intellectual spectrum confront the downward spiral of American life, art, and thought.
Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminished Expectations
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Newsweek hailed Paul Krugman as "a superstar among economists" and went on to praise Peddling Prosperity as "the best primer around on recent U.S. economic history." Others joined the chorus.
Zen and the Birds of Appetite
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Merton, one of the rare Western thinkers able to feel at home in the philosophies of the East, made the wisdom of Asia available to Westerners.