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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorHere Is New York
E.B. White · 56 pages
What is most amazing about E.B. White's "Here Is New York," This book written in 1948 says: "A single flight planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end t his island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions." The city is both the perfect target and the perfect demonstration of nonviolence. White says, "This i
An Elemental Thing
Eliot Weinberger · 194 pages
Sidewalks
Valeria Luiselli · 110 pages
A dazzling follow-up to the novel Faces in the Crowd , this collection of literary peregrinations around the margins of metropolitan life demonstrates Valeria Luiselli's equal virtuosity as a writer of non-fiction. Evocative, erudite and consistently surprising, these narrative essays explore the places - real and imagined - that shape our lives. Whether wandering the familiar streets of her neigh
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 141 pages
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
Annie Dillard · 177 pages
Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.
No Name in the Street
James Baldwin · 197 pages
"This is James Baldwin's long-awaited statement on what has happened to America through the political and social agonies of her recent history".
Berlin Childhood around 1900
Walter Benjamin · 192 pages
Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime. Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the basis of the recently discovered final version that contains the author's own arrangement of a suite of luminous vignettes, it can be more widely appreciated as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century prose writing. This book is also one of B
Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas
Ruskin Bond · 251 pages
The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois · 192 pages
Du Bois' 1903 collection of essays is a thoughtful, articulate exploration of the moral and intellectual issues surrounding the perception of blacks within American society.
A Place in the Country
W.G. Sebald · 208 pages
W. G. Sebald's meditation on the six artists and writers who shaped his creative mind--and the last of this great writer's major works to be translated into English.
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
Lauren Elkin · 336 pages
In *Flâneuse*, Lauren Elkin creates a mosaic of what urban settings have meant to women, charting through literature, art, history, and film the sometimes exhilarating, sometimes fraught relationship that women have with the metropolis.
Autumn
Karl Ove Knausgard · 224 pages
The first entry in a planned four-part autobiographical series presents sensory letters written to the author's unborn daughter that describe his childhood and daily life with his wife and older children in rural Sweden.
A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River
Aldo Leopold · 269 pages
First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for Americas relationship to the land. Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the monthly changes of the
Roads to Santiago
Cees Nooteboom · 352 pages
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
Thomas Lynch · 224 pages
"Every Year I Bury a Couple Hundred of My Townspeople." So opens the singular testimony of the poet Thomas Lynch. Like all poets, inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or to cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director. In the conduct of these duties he has kept his eyes open, his ears tuned to the ind
Chicago: City on the Make
Nelson Algren, Bill Savage · 120 pages