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  • A Hitch in Time

    Reflections Ready for Reconsideration

    In this outstanding collection, essayist Christopher Hitchens's works are shared–a must-have for Hitchens completists seeking a further understanding of his brilliant mind.Anthologized here for the first time, A Hitch in Time is a choice selection of Christopher Hitchens’s finest reviews, diary entries, and essays–along with a smattering of ferocious letters.A Hitch in Time is a banquet of ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • Critical Mass

    Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs

    par James Wolcott ...
    A career-spanning collection of critical essays and cultural journalism from one of the most acute, entertaining, and sometimes acerbic (but in a good way) critics of our timeFrom his early-seventies dispatches as a fledgling critic for The Village Voice on rock ’n’ roll, comedy, movies, and television to the literary criticism of the eighties and nineties that made him both feared and famous to ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $17.99 CAD Maintenant $5.99 CAD

  • Lucking Out

    My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in the Seventies

    par James Wolcott ...
    "How lucky I was, arriving in New York just as everything was about to go to hell.”That would be in the autumn of 1972, when a very young and green James Wolcott arrived from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no idea what was about to hit him. Landing at a time of accelerating municipal squalor and, paradoxically, gathering ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Catsitters

    A Novel

    par James Wolcott ...

    $11.99 CAD

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    A Hitch in Time

    Reflections Ready for Reconsideration

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    10 heure 54 min

    In this outstanding collection, essayist Christopher Hitchens's works are shared–a must-have for Hitchens completists seeking a further understanding of his brilliant mind.Anthologized here for the first time, A Hitch in Time is a choice selection of Christopher Hitchens’s finest reviews, diary entries, and essays–along with a smattering of ferocious letters.A Hitch in Time is a banquet of ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

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    The Ritz of the Bayou

    The New Orleans Adventures of a Young Novelist Covering the Trials of the Governor of Louisiana, with digressions on smoldering ... and other aspects of life in the tropic zone

    par Nancy Lemann ...
    Lu par Kirsten Potter ...

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    4 heure 10 min

    In this “unjustly neglected” masterpiece, Nancy Lemann gives an atmospheric account of the New Orleans trial of the Governor of Louisiana for racketeering, fraud, and bribery. This fortieth anniversary edition features a new introduction by critic James Wolcott and an afterword by the author.New Orleans–born novelist Nancy Lemann returned to her hometown from Manhattan in 1985, tasked by renowned ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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    Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants

    The Looting of the News in a Time of Terror

    par James Wolcott ...
    Lu par Dennis Boutsikaris ...

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    7 heure 9 min

    Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants is a hilarious and scathing critique of the so-called news establishment. Wolcott’s book pokes, prods, and stirs up controversy. It also makes some serious points about the lamentable state of our news, and our nation. ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

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    We May Dominate the World

    Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus

    par Sean A Mirski ...
    Lu par Gary Tiedemann ...

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    15 heure 32 min

    What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of American foreign policy with stark lessons for todayThe cutthroat world of international politics has always been dominated by great powers. Yet no great power in the modern era has ever managed to achieve the kind of invulnerability that comes from being completely supreme in its own ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

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    Third Millennium Thinking

    Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

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    11 heure 10 min

    Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, a primer on how to think critically, make sound decisions, and solve problems—individually and collectively—using scientists’ tricks of the trade.In our deluge of information, it's getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradictory. How do we make health decisions in the face of conflicting medical advice? Does that article ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

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    Disillusioned

    Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

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    13 heure 30 min

    **"Astonishingly important.” —Alex Kotlowitz, The AtlanticThrough the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools**Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

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    Status and Culture

    How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change

    par W. David Marx ...
    Lu par Daniel Henning ...

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    13 heure 8 min

    **"Subtly altered how I see the world." —Michelle Goldberg, New York Times“[Status and Culture] consistently posits theories I'd never previously considered that instantly feel obvious.” —Chuck Klosterman, author of The Nineties“Why are you the way that you are? Status and Culture explains nearly everything about the things you choose to be—and how the society we live in takes shape in the process ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

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    The Lede

    Dispatches from a Life in the Press

    par Calvin Trillin ...
    Lu par Robert Fass ...

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    10 heure 4 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A fascinating portrait of journalism and the people who make it, told through pieces collected from the incomparable six-decade career of bestselling author and longtime New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin“The Lede contains profiles . . . that are acknowledged classics of the form and will be studied until A.I. makes hash out of all of us.”—Dwight Garner, The New York ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD