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The New Gilded Age: The New Yorker Looks at the Culture of Affluence In keeping with its tradition of sending writers out into America to take the pulse of our citizens and civilization, The New Yorker over the past decade has reported on the unprecedented economy and how it has changed the ways in which we live. This new anthology collects the best of these profiles, essays, and articles, which depict, in the magazine's inimitable style, the mega-, meta-, monster-wealth created in this, our new Gilded Age.
Revere Beach Boulevard Revere Beach Boulevard tells the story of a family that rallies around an errant son, even as a long-hidden secret that has touched all their lives comes to the surface. Peter Imbesalacqua has bent the rules and battled a gambling addiction for most of his adult life. Now, his real-estate business in shambles and his life in danger because of and unpaid debt, he spins at the center of a hurricane of love and risk. His parents, sister, and friends, all carrying their own secrets, find themselves drawn into the terrifying storm, each trying to do for peter what he must ultimately do, or fail to do, for himself. Revere Beach Boulevard is a rich and heartfelt novel that looks deeply into the secret places in men's and women's hearts, places only great fiction can reveal.
Moghul Buffet Micky Malone, an American businessman visiting the troubled border town of Peshawar in Pakistan, vanishes from his hotel room. The only clue is an enigmatic message in blood scrawled on the Coke machine. A series of murders follows. But in a country where half the population is hidden beneath chadors, tracking a murderer can be difficult. "Both a wickedly funny cross-cultural comedy of errors and an edgy murder mystery." Publishers Weekly
Fasting, Feasting Uma, the plain older deaughter, fails to outgrow her home and family, and stays on, surrounded and smothered by godlike, overbearing parents, her ambitious, successful sister Aruna, Arun, the disappointing son and heir; and the extended family of strange aunts and cousins like the feckless Ramu and the tragic, beautiful Anamika. Across the world in Massachusetts, where young Arun goes as a student, life in the suburbs; where the Patton family men char hunks of meat while their womenfolk don't appear to cook or eat at all; is bewildering and full of terror for the young Indian adolescent far from home. Full of wit and sensuality, farce and deep pathos, Anita Desai's dazzling new novel cuts right to the heart of family life in two different cultures.
Discover Your Genius Everyone has the potential for genius. The full expression of your unique genius awaits you in these pages. In Discover Your Genius, Michael J. Gelb draws upon the wellspring of history's most revolutionary minds to guide you to unleash your own creativity through mental play. Searching for the most world-shaking ideas, discoveries, and innovations, Gelb assembled a "genius dream team" comprising ten individuals, each of whom embodies a special "genius" characteristic that you are invited to integrate into your daily life.
Entangled Edens Candace Slater takes us on a journey into the Amazon that will forever change our ideas about one of the most written about, filmed, and fought over areas in the world. In this book she deftly traces a rich and marvelous legacy of stories and images of the Amazon that reflects the influence of widely different groups of people; conquistadores, corporate executives, subsistence farmers; over the centuries. A careful, passionate consideration of one of the most powerful environmental icons of our time, Entangled Edens makes clear that we cannot defend the Amazon's dazzling array of plants and animals without comprehending its equally astonishing human and cultural diversity. |
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Ecopolitics: Building a Green Society Where do you place the blame for the environmental crisis; too many people? Consumer greet? Technology gone amok? And what do you think will save our planet, birth control? Appropriate technology? Recycling? Eco-consumerism? Those solutions are just "Band-Aids on a bleeding Earth," argues environmental activist Daniel A. Coleman. By blaming ourselves as individuals, we let governments and corporations off the hook. Making "50 simple" changes in our personal lifestyles is worthwhile, but must not divert our attention from the underlying causes of environmental disaster. The real causes are rooted deep in the politics of human affairs, and so are their solutions. Lucid, lively, probing, serious, yet optimistic, Coleman's analysis is required reading for all who count the earth as their home.
Why the French Love Jerry Lewis Vividly bringing to light the tradition of physical comedy in the French cabaret, café-concert, and early French film comedy, this book answers the perplexing question, "Why do the French love Jerry Lewis?" The extraordinary emphasis on nervous pathology in the Parisian café-concert, where the genres of the Epileptic Singer and the Idiot Comic took center stage, points to a fascinating intersection between medicine and popular culture. The French tradition of comic performance style between 1870 and 1910 nearly exactly duplicates the movements, gestures, tics, grimaces, and speech anomalies found in nineteenth-century hysteria. Jerry Lewis touches a nerve in French cultural memory because, more than any other film comic, he incarnates this tradition of performance style.
Galileo Considered by many to be one of Brecht's masterpieces, Galileo explores the question of a scientist's social and ethical responsibility, as the brilliant Galileo must choose between his life and his life's work when confronted with the demands of the Inquisition. Through the dramatic characterization of the famous physicist, Brecht examines the issues of scientific morality and the difficult relationship between the intellectual and authority.
The Enduring Shore: A History of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket The Enduring Shore is a comprehensive narrative of Cape Cod and the neighboring islands, melding the outsized personalities and dramas that characterize the region into a compelling montage of natives and explorers, pilgrims and beachcombers, religionists and revolutionaries. Here are clipper crews and whaling kings, castaways, summer people, sub-dividers, and poets. In Schneider's sure hands, the story of this water land and its varied inhabitants becomes an irresistible biography of a place.
Ovid Metamorphosed "Shameless libertine, god-mocker, instigator of imperial displeasure, exile: there is much about Ovid the man to make him interesting to the modern mind, and even more about Ovid the poet. One of the most powerful stories is the one that stays closest to its source, M. J. Fitzgerald's version of the appalling tale of Tereus and Philomela, of the wicked king who raped his sister-in-law and cut out her tongue so she could not tell on him. Other writers use Ovid only as a launch pad for their own imaginative flight. Variously playful, sexy or frightening, each of the stories brings something fresh to the myth it retells." Sunday Times
The Complete Poems Perhaps the most accessible English lyric poet of the seventeenth century, Marvell was also a master of political satire. Passionate and brilliant, witty and learned, this astute man of affairs combined the friendship of Milton with the patronage of Cromwell and the admiration of Charles II. |
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