In hierdie knap versameling literere essays le die skrywer nie net verbande tussen tekste uit die Afrikaanse en Nederlandse letterkunde nie, maar ook tussen die letterkunde en ander kunsvorme: meer bepaald die musiek en die skilderkuns. Vir die student en die liefhebber-leser bewys Elsa Nolte in haar weldeurdagte en uistekend gestruktureerde essays hoe die rykdom van die literere teks nie deur ’n eenmalige leesoefening ontsluit kan word nie, maar dat 'n mens as leser “beloon” word in die mate waarin jy jouself as geoefende en ervare leser teenoor die teks stel.

In Dolf van Niekerk se sesde digbundel kyk hy terug op mense, dinge en gebeurtenisse wat 'n betekenisvolle rol in sy lewe gespeel het. Die digbundel word as 't ware 'n klein galery van skilderye wat momente in die skrywer se lewe vasvang. Die openingsgedig “Vergange” bevat 'n sleutel: Die gedigte handel wesenlik oor daardie oomblikke wat huiwer tussen “aankoms en vertrek”, oomblikke waarin die tyd “saamvloei in die nou / se durende verlede.” Daarom dra die beroemdheid of uiterlike belangrikheid van die onderwerp nie gewig nie: Gedigte oor figure soos pous Julius II, Albert Schweitzer en Peter Blum staan naas gedigte oor die skrywer se moeder wat hy vroeg verloor het, oor sy vader, 'n stoere wildeseringboom en 'n gunsteling-posduif. Daar is ook gedigte oor magiese oomblikke, soos 'n besondere orkesuitvoering in Tel Aviv, 'n nag by die see en 'n oesdag in die Overberg wat herinner aan 'n Van Gogh-skildery. Dit is 'n ontroerende bundel waarin die digter nie net sin uit sy eie lewe probeer maak nie, maar ook besin oor beskawing en by monde van Bartolomeus Dias “vermoed: Afrika duld nie vreemde goed”.

To breed or not to breed? That is the question twenty-eight accomplished writers ponder in this collection of provocative, honest, soul-searching essays. Based on a popular series at Salon.com, Maybe Baby offers both frank and nuanced opinions from a wide range of viewpoints on parenting choices, both alternative and traditional.

Yes: "I've been granted access to a new plane of existence, one I could not have imagined, and would not now live without."--Peter Nichols

No: "I can sort of see that it might be nice to have children, but there are a thousand things I'd rather spend my time doing than raise them."--Michelle Goldberg

Maybe: "As we both slip into our mid-thirties, my own personal daddy dilemma has quietly taken on an urgency that I frankly didn't expect."--Larry Smith

From infertility to adoption, from ambivalence to baby lust, Maybe Baby brings together the full force of opinions about this national, but also intensely personal, debate.

Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art

For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes.

Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition. Nearly as frequently, he wrote dense and joyful letters to his wife, Clara Westhoff, expressing his dismay before the paintings and his ensuing revelations about art and life.

Rilke was knowledgeable about art and had even published monographs, including a famous study of Rodin that inspired his New Poems. But Cezanne's impact on him could not be conveyed in a traditional essay. Rilke's sense of kinship with Cezanne provides a powerful and prescient undercurrent in these letters -- passages from them appear verbatim in Rilke's great modernist novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Letters on Cezanne is a collection of meaningfully private responses to a radically new art.

The remarkable account of a 73-year-old man's epic walk around England and the thoughts that surface during those lonely hours of long-distance walking. Memories from another age are rekindled: The war years: a father killed: a mother's grief: evacuation : an unusual and impovished childhood. A parallel journey is interwoven within the diary pages of a book that portrays an England largely untrodden by modern lives. From the remoteness of the Northern Pennines to the unique geological features of the Jurassic Coast - from the grandeur of the Lake District to the panoramic views of the South West Coast Path - or from the dramatic coastline of Northumberland to the tranquillity of a canal tow path; it becomes fascinating terrain as David leads you along delightful coastal paths and charming villages, depicting daily events in his captivating, easy-going style.

Poker is much more than just a popular game. It is a world unto itself, populated with a multitude of colorful characters: professionals and amateurs, hustlers and dreamers. This royal flush of a collection brings together short stories, essays, poems, and excerpts from novels by a host of renowned writers -- from the Wild West to present day -- who have mined their personal experience of the game. Entertaining and enlightening, you'll want to ante up for Read 'Em and Weep.

With pieces by ...

Nelson Algren Andy Bellin Anthony Holden Katy Lederer James Thurber Barbara Tuchman Billy Collins Pete Dexter Martin Amis David Mamet Herbert O. Yardley A. Alvarez

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Leafing through the Guardian I found a picture of William Butler Yeats receiving his Nobel Prize in 1923. It was a photograph my father used to show me as a child. I always assumed that both men were from a hot country because of their black hair and thick, pale, fast-tanning skin. My father used to avoid Irish people, so I didn't know what they looked like. Suddenly I realised there was a strong, personal resemblance.

Investigative reporter Brian Deer exposes a conspiracy of fraud and betrayal behind attacks on a mainstay of medicine: vaccinations. 2021 IPPY Book Award Winner (Gold) in Health/Medicine/Nutrition, Recipient of the Eric Hoffer Award for Nonfiction in the Culture Category. From San Francisco to Shanghai, from Vancouver to Venice, controversy over vaccines is erupting around the globe. Fear is spreading. Banished diseases have returned. And a militant "anti-vax" movement has surfaced to campaign against children's shots. But why? In The Doctor Who Fooled the World, award-winning investigative reporter Brian Deer exposes the truth behind the crisis. Writing with the page-turning tension of a detective story, he unmasks the players and unearths the facts. Where it began. Who was responsible. How they pulled it off. Who paid. At the heart of this dark narrative is the rise of the so-called "father of the anti-vaccine movement": a British-born doctor, Andrew Wakefield. Banned from medicine, thanks to Deer's discoveries, he fled to the United States to pursue his ambitions, and now claims to be winning a "war." In an epic investigation spread across fifteen years, Deer battles medical secrecy and insider cover-ups, smear campaigns and gagging lawsuits, to uncover rigged research and moneymaking schemes, the heartbreaking plight of families struggling with disability, and the scientific scandal of our time.

The general understanding of dA (c)jA vu is this: DA (c)jA vu, from French, literally "already seen", is the phenomenon of having the strong sensation that an event or experience currently being experienced has been experienced in the past, whether it has actually happened or not. So how would you feel if five years of your life flashes in front of your eyes in a space of five minutes or your dreams come to life in the same week? Samuel, I have been in situations where dA (c)jA vu was so clear, I was not sure whether I was dreaming or living.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. A green horse great and tall; A steed full stiff to guide, In broidered bridle all He worthily bestrides Dating from around 1400 and composed by an anonymous writer, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was first translated and published almost 200 years ago. Its epic nature has not been dimmed by time: the classic story of a knight on a green steed challenging Sir Gawain to a monumental wager, it is a strange tale full of decapitations, seduction and magic. Soon to be brought to the big screen, Sir Gawain is one of the earliest great stories of English literature.

On the 18th of March 2013 David Littlejohn Beveridge set out, in fulfillment of childhood dreams, to walk the ancient pilgrim route called the Way of St.James or Camino de Santiago from Roncesvalles to Santiago de Compostela. Earth Under My Heel is his journal.

Oswald Harcourt-Davis joined the Corps of Royal Engineers in 1916 to become a despatch rider. He was allocated a Triumph motorcycle at Abbeville France on 18th July 1916 and was attached to the ANZACs for the duration of the war which saw him motorcycling around the Somme and Ypres Salient areas. He won his military medal at Messines.

Gentleman Jack - Anne Lister - and Eliza Raine are 13-year-olds at boarding school. Both alienated from the other wealthy Yorkshire girls, they slept in the same bed in a small, unheated attic room and confided about schoolwork, families and personal problems, so their friendship grew deep and serious. Each had what the other craved: Anne, with no money, saw that Eliza could be independent. Lonely Eliza envied Anne's well-respected, stable family. And when Anne put her arm around Eliza, the beautiful, exotic Indian girl responded.

Overwhelmed and desperate for a remedy that would heal her son, Fredericka Charles tried, it seems everything to help him. She revisits this seemingly hopeless chapter of her life in the confidence that it would help someone.

Paul and Charlotte Bondy were refugees from Hitler caught up in Churchill's policy of mass internment. Paul was detained at the Alien Internment Camp at Huyton, near Liverpool, from late June to early December 1940. During this time his only contact with his wife and young daughter was by post. As this young married couple struggled to overcome the vicissitudes of war and exile to maintain some semblance of family life, they wrote to each other regularly. The letters, postcards and telegrams reproduced here are a unique example of a complete WW2 Internment Correspondence.

The action-packed sequel to The Boy in the Post: perfect for fans of the Adventures on Trains series! 'Energetic, lively and charming' READING ZONE on The Boy in the Post A few months have passed since Orinthia's transatlantic adventure with her two younger brothers and the mailbox menagerie is thriving, training animails to deliver post. Then a family of ice-cream makers arrive in the village - including daughter Jemima - and announce they're entering their ice-cream into the prestigious Golden Udder Awards in Norway. Orinthia and Jemima decide to train a pair of cows to deliver a true show-stopper during the competition. But on the voyage to Norway and beyond, it's clear someone is determined to sabotage their efforts ... A warm, adventurous and action-packed sequel to The Boy in the Post - though can be easily read as a standalone story A brillantly-imagined fantasy world with a vintage feel and a trio of characters you'll long to be friends with As a child, Holly was a lead actress in ITV's original Worst Witch series! Perfect for fans of M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman's Adventures on Trains series

Writing an essay is rather like building a house. First, you need to have a carefully thought-out plan and a clear idea of how to use all the different tools and building materials. Of course, you also need to know what the finished project should look like. What are the conventions that other building contractors use? What does the home-owner expect? Only once you fully understand the basic principles of building are you able to put together, brick by brick, the four walls, a floor, a roof and the finishing touches, such as windows and doors. Much the same is true of writing an essay. You need to know the building regulations. You need to know what you are expected to build. You need to know the secrets and tricks of the trade. You need to practise. In this handbook, students - those who are about to write their first essay and those who have written numerous essays but who know that they are capable of obtaining better results - are guided along the basic principles of planning and building an essay that is well structured, clear and concise, and meets the high international standards required by tertiary educational institutions.

Hoe leer jy skryf? Hoe skryf mens oor jouself, oor ander, oor plekke en gebeure of oor idees en oortuigings? Hoe begin jy 'n treffende teks, hoe sluit jy dit af? Mens leer vinnig as jy langs 'n goeie ambagsman gaan staan en mooi loer wat hy doen en die tegnieke wat hy benut in jou eie werk begin toepas. Dit is die lekkerste en vinnigste manier. Hier is 'n boek in Afrikaans wat saamgestel is om jou daarmee te help. Om te skryf bevat vertalings van bekende Engelse prosa en oorspronklike Afrikaanse tekste, maar die boek gaan nie oor wat die skrywers se nie - belangrik soos dit mag wees - maar oor die hoe: die tegnieke waardeur hulle hul boodskap helder oordra. Na elke uittreksel, word daar vrae gestel wat die leser help om die woordmeesters se styl, tegniek en vaardighede aan te leer. Inhoud behels persoonlike skryfwerk, die karakterskets en beskrywing, asook meer abstrakte konsepte soos die uiteensetting van 'n agument en 'n poging om ander mense te oortuig. Later volg tegnieke om 'n stuk te begin en te eindig, skryfwerk oor kuns en media en ten slotte 'n afdeling oor die nuanses van individuele styl. Die boek bevat ook 'n woordelys met bondige definisies van terme wat in die oefenvrae in die boek gebruik word. Die eerste Afrikaanse boek van sy soort vir aspirant skrywers, joernaliste, en enigiemand wat lief is vir literatuur of daarin belangstel om sy skryfvaardighede te verbeter; bevat oor 'n honderd uittreksels uit werk van van die voorste skrywers in die geskiedenis (van Plato tot V.S. Naipaul), asook van die beste skryfwerk uit ons eie literere en joernalistieke erfenis (van Etienne Leroux tot Dana Snyman); opsigselfstaande afdelings bied lesers buigsaamheid om by enige afdeling te begin; oefeninge maak dit moontlik om toe te pas wat gelees is; vergesel van 'n webwerf met gereelde kompetisies, ens. - www.omteskryf.net

One morning Carolina wakes up, determined to change something in her life. She has had enough of living her monotonous daily routine and craves something else, something unusual. How about a trip around the world? Her adventure takes her to the Middle East, Africa and Oceania. During her travels she encounters endangered mountain gorillas, walks with wild lions, and flirts with adrenaline boosting activities like bungee jumping. But what does this experience bring her spiritually?