A Memoir of (My) Body
Broschiertes Buch
I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.' New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with...
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Im April 1989 wurde eine weiße Endzwanzigerin auf ihrer abendlichen Laufrunde durch den Central Park von sechs schwarzen Jugendlichen überfallen und vergewaltigt. Sie überlebte den Angriff lebensgefährlich verletzt, der darauf folgende Strafprozess hielt New York über Monate in Atem. In ihrer titelgebenden Reportage "Sentimentale Reisen" beschäftigt Joan Didion allerdings weniger der Vorfall selbst als vielmehr die öffentliche Debatte und die...
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'Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue.' In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of colour (The Help) while also...
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Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York International Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at the New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash. As her family, friends and classmates, deep in grief, joined to create a memorial service for Marina, her unforgettable last essay for the Yale Daily News, 'The Opposite...
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From the internationally bestselling author of What I Loved and The Summer Without Men, a dazzling collection of essays written with Siri Hustvedt's customary intelligence, wit and ability to convey complex ideas in a clear and lively way. Divided into three sections - Living, which draws on Siri's own life; Thinking, on memory, emotion and the imagination; and Looking, on art and artists - the essays range across the humanities and science...
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From the internationally bestselling author of What I Loved and The Summer Without Men, a dazzling collection of essays written with Siri Hustvedt's customary intelligence, wit and ability to convey complex ideas in a clear and lively way. Divided into three sections - Living, which draws on Siri's own life; Thinking, on memory, emotion and the imagination; and Looking, on art and artists - the essays range...
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Living, Thinking, Looking A dazzling collection of essays by the bestselling author of What I Loved - thought-provoking, engaging, illuminating reflections on what it means to be human. Full description
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![Deutsche Hörer [Rundfunkansprache über BBC, Ende 1945] von Thomas Mann](https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41nQRaPNpAL._SL160_.jpg)
Insgesamt achtundfünfzig Mal hatte Thomas Mann ab dem Jahr 1940 im Rahmen seiner mittlerweile berühmten Rundfunkansprachen ›Deutsche Hörer!‹ an seine ehemaligen Landsleute appelliert. Erst die teils sehr kritischen Reaktionen auf seinen ›Brief nach Deutschland‹ (zuerst erschienen im Aufbau, September 1945) hatten Mann veranlasst, das erneuerte Angebot der BBC anzunehmen und sich noch einmal über das Radio an die Deutschen zu wenden....
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'More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to...' Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English. From its mongrel origins to its status as the world's most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplicity to its deceptive complexity; its vibrant swearing to its...
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