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Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > From 1900

Photojournalism and Today's News - Creating Visual Reality (Hardcover, New): L Langton Photojournalism and Today's News - Creating Visual Reality (Hardcover, New)
L Langton
R2,415 Discovery Miles 24 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Photojournalism and Today's News provides a practical guide for aspiring photojournalists as well as an intelligent look into newsroom culture and its influences on photographic assignments, production, and editing. Written by an award-winning photo editor and director of photography, and based on interviews with more than seventy high-profile journalists, this book appeals to students and young professionals alike. Addresses a wide range of practical issues supported by in-depth examples from the field and critical thinking about photography, journalism, and newsroom culture Examines social and cultural issues and how they are communicated through photojournalism Prepares young journalists to respect their visual journalism colleagues by teaching them how to effectively work together Highlights the expectations of the newsroom and editors

Mud Sweeter than Honey - Voices of Communist Albania (Hardcover): Margo Rejmer Mud Sweeter than Honey - Voices of Communist Albania (Hardcover)
Margo Rejmer; Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Zosia Krasodomska-Jones
R588 R482 Discovery Miles 4 820 Save R106 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

"[An] incredibly moving collection of oral histories . . . important enough to be added to the history curriculum" Telegraph "A moving evocation of the 'everyday terror' systematically perpetrated over 41 years of Albanian communism . . . An illuminating if harrowing insight into life in a totalitarian state." Clarissa de Waal, author of ALBANIA: PORTRAIT OF A COUNTRY IN TRANSITION "Albania, enigmatic, mysterious Albania, was always the untold story of the Cold War, the 1989 revolutions and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Mud Sweeter Than Honey goes a very long way indeed towards putting that right" New European After breaking ties with Yugoslavia, the USSR and then China, Enver Hoxha believed that Albania could become a self-sufficient bastion of communism. Every day, many of its citizens were thrown into prisons and forced labour camps for daring to think independently, for rebelling against the regime or trying to escape - the consequences of their actions were often tragic and irreversible. Mud Sweeter than Honey gives voice to those who lived in Albania at that time - from poets and teachers to shoe-makers and peasant farmers, and many others whose aspirations were brutally crushed in acts of unimaginable repression - creating a vivid, dynamic and often painful picture of this totalitarian state during the forty years of Hoxha's ruthless dictatorship. Very little emerged from Albania during communist times. With these personal accounts, Rejmer opens a window onto a terrifying period in the country's history. Mud Sweeter than Honey is not only a gripping work of reportage, but also a necessary and unique portrait of a nation. With an Introduction by Tony Barber *Winner of the Polityka Passport Prize**Winner of the Koscielski Award* Translated from the Polish by Zosia Krasodomska-Jones and Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Journalismus fur Dummies 2e (German, Paperback): H Loewisch Journalismus fur Dummies 2e (German, Paperback)
H Loewisch
R565 Discovery Miles 5 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Maurizio Cattelan: Index (Paperback): Maurizio Cattelan Maurizio Cattelan: Index (Paperback)
Maurizio Cattelan; Edited by Roberta Tenconi, Vicente Todoli, Marta Papini; Text written by Fiammetta Griccioli, …
R1,080 Discovery Miles 10 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Fortified Special Edition - 10 Effective Strategies to Fortify Our Families (Paperback): Lorrie Richins Fortified Special Edition - 10 Effective Strategies to Fortify Our Families (Paperback)
Lorrie Richins
R884 R719 Discovery Miles 7 190 Save R165 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Outlaw Ocean - Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier (Paperback): Ian Urbina The Outlaw Ocean - Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier (Paperback)
Ian Urbina 1
R476 R411 Discovery Miles 4 110 Save R65 (14%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A New York Times bestseller, The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas.

The oceans are some of the last untamed frontiers on our planet.

Too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these treacherous waters play host to the extremes of human behaviour and activity.

From traffickers, smugglers and pirates to vigilante conservationists, stowaways and seabound abortion-providers, Ian Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world and their risk-fraught lives. Through their extraordinary stories, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil and shipping industries - but to which all of us are connected.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2019

The Believer, Issue 124 - April/May (Paperback): The Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute The Believer, Issue 124 - April/May (Paperback)
The Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute
R354 Discovery Miles 3 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Believer, a five-time National Magazine Award finalist, is a bimonthly literature, arts, and culture magazine based in Las Vegas, Nevada. In each issue, readers will find journalism, essays, intimate interviews, an expansive comics section, poetry, and on occasion, delightful and unexpected bonus items. Our poetry section is curated by Jericho Brown, Kristen Radtke selects our comics, and Joshua Wolf Shenk is our editor-in-chief. All issues feature a regular column by Nick Hornby and a symposium, in which several writers expound on a theme of contemporary interest.

A Century of Repression - The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press (Paperback): Ralph Engelman, Carey Shenkman A Century of Repression - The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press (Paperback)
Ralph Engelman, Carey Shenkman
R645 Discovery Miles 6 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A Century of Repression offers an unprecedented and panoramic history of the use of the Espionage Act of 1917 as the most important yet least understood law threatening freedom of the press in modern American history. It details government use of the Act to control information about U.S. military and foreign policy during the two World Wars, the Cold War, and the War on Terror. The Act has provided cover for the settling of political scores, illegal break-ins, and prosecutorial misconduct.

Modern Love - Now an Amazon Prime series (Paperback): Daniel Jones Modern Love - Now an Amazon Prime series (Paperback)
Daniel Jones 1
R453 R368 Discovery Miles 3 680 Save R85 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A joyful collection of the most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays from the New York Times 'Modern Love' column, featuring stories from the upcoming anthology series starring Tina Fey, Andy Garcia, Anne Hathaway, Catherine Keener, Dev Patel, and John Slattery. A young woman goes through the five stages of ghosting grief. A man's promising fourth date ends in the emergency room. A female lawyer with bipolar disorder experiences the highs and lows of dating. A widower hesitates about introducing his children to his new girlfriend. A divorcee in her seventies looks back at the beauty and rubble of past relationships. These are just a few of the people who tell their stories in Modern Love featuring dozens of the most memorable essays to run in the New York Times "Modern Love" column since its debut in 2004. Some of the stories are unconventional, while others hit close to home. Some reveal the way technology has changed dating forever; others explore the timeless struggles experienced by anyone who has ever searched for love. But all of the stories are, above everything else, honest. Together, they tell the larger story of how relationships begin, often fail, and-when we're lucky-endure. This is the perfect book for anyone who's loved, lost, stalked an ex on social media, or pined for true romance: in other words, anyone interested in the endlessly complicated workings of the human heart.

STUFF HAPPENS - The Far From Humdrum Life of a Photojournalist (Hardcover): Tor Eigeland STUFF HAPPENS - The Far From Humdrum Life of a Photojournalist (Hardcover)
Tor Eigeland
R1,356 R1,179 Discovery Miles 11 790 Save R177 (13%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

"Magical, but down-to-earth, a life of adventurous travel wreathed in curiosity and friendliness. Modestly presented, a wonderful way to experience the world, and full of charm." Kate Adie, former Chief News Correspondent for BBC News "This fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of a photojournalist's life takes you around the world, from the opening of Egypt's Aswan dam to meeting the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico and gliding among the reed beds with the Marsh Arabs in pre-Saddam Iraq." "Not only a great photojournalist, with an innate eye for detail, but also a truly engaging storyteller." "Tor seems to have the knack... combined with a bit of good luck... of being in the right place at the right time, from witnessing counter-culture hero Tim Leary getting kicked out of Mexico to recording Fidel Castro's victory speech in Havana to photographing Duke Ellington composing... encountering many others besides." "It's hard to think of a more genial travel companion than the Norwegian-born photojournalist Tor Eigeland, who retraces his fascinating and adventure-packed life story beautifully illustrated with over 250 photos." Photojournalist Tor Eigeland looks back at the most memorable highlights of his remarkable life and travels on assignment for the likes of National Geographic, Time Life and multiple foreign publications. 'Stuff Happens' is a catchphrase Tor has used time and again during his 60-year career when something out of the ordinary happened.... his life has certainly never been humdrum. This incredible, unique memoir, with varied tales and anecdotes, the culmination of a life's work - all wonderfully photographed - is captivating from start to finish. "Tor Eigeland's book is a tour de force, from a time that feels long ago, by a photographer who had the privilege and intrepid spirit to show us the world. Like his colleagues at National Geographic and the other great picture magazines of that period, globe trotting photojournalists showed us the world as it was." Ed Kashi, multi award winning U.S. photojournalist and filmmaker

Citizens of Scandal - Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico (Paperback): Vanessa Freije Citizens of Scandal - Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico (Paperback)
Vanessa Freije
R711 Discovery Miles 7 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Citizens of Scandal, Vanessa Freije explores the causes and consequences of political scandals in Mexico from the 1960s through the 1980s. Tracing the process by which Mexico City reporters denounced official wrongdoing, she shows that by the 1980s political scandals were a common feature of the national media diet. News stories of state embezzlement, torture, police violence, and electoral fraud provided collective opportunities to voice dissent and offered an important, though unpredictable and inequitable, mechanism for political representation. The publicity of wrongdoing also disrupted top-down attempts by the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional to manage public discourse, exposing divisions within the party and forcing government officials to grapple with popular discontent. While critical reporters denounced corruption, they also withheld many secrets from public discussion, sometimes out of concern for their safety. Freije highlights the tensions-between free speech and censorship, representation and exclusion, and transparency and secrecy-that defined the Mexican public sphere in the late twentieth century.

Cold Rush - The Astonishing True Story of the New Quest for the Polar North (Hardcover): Martin Breum Cold Rush - The Astonishing True Story of the New Quest for the Polar North (Hardcover)
Martin Breum
R1,195 Discovery Miles 11 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Arctic is heating up. While China, the US and Russia are militarizing the North pole - sending submarines and ice-breakers - the ice itself continues to recede creating new trade routes and new opportunities for mining gas and oil. What is quietly unfolding in the polar north is a `great game' for territory and for resources, all against the biggest backdrop of all: the destruction of the Arctic caused by climate change. And then last year things took a strange turn. The Kingdom of Denmark, through its colonial claim on Greenland, declared ownership of the entire European hemisphere of the Arctic. Its claims on a territory larger than Scandinavia overlap over 500 sq. km with Russia's, who have planted a flag on the ocean floor underneath the North Pole. Investigative journalist Martin Breum has been at the front-line for a decade, and brings this secret story to life. He reports on researchers discovering Russian submarines beneath the ice, spy plane pilots flying over environmental research boats and uncovers the stories of the inhabitants of sleepy Greenland who are waking up to their new place in the universe - between the great aggressive military powers of the world. Thrillingly written, Cold Rush reveals a secret world in which the future of our planet is being decided.

The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 (Paperback): Sid Holt The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 (Paperback)
Sid Holt
R470 Discovery Miles 4 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 presents outstanding journalism and commentary that reckon with urgent topics, including COVID-19 and entrenched racial inequality. In "The Plague Year," Lawrence Wright details how responses to the pandemic went astray (New Yorker). Lizzie Presser reports on "The Black American Amputation Epidemic" (ProPublica). In powerful essays, the novelist Jesmyn Ward processes her grief over her husband's death against the backdrop of the pandemic and antiracist uprisings (Vanity Fair), and the poet Elizabeth Alexander considers "The Trayvon Generation" (New Yorker). Aymann Ismail delves into how "The Store That Called the Cops on George Floyd" dealt with the repercussions of the fatal call (Slate). Mitchell S. Jackson scrutinizes the murder of Ahmaud Arbery and how running fails Black America (Runner's World). The anthology features remarkable reporting, such as explorations of the cases of children who disappeared into the depths of the U.S. immigration system for years (Reveal) and Oakland's efforts to rethink its approach to gun violence (Mother Jones). It includes selections from a Public Books special issue that investigate what 2020's overlapping crises reveal about the future of cities. Excerpts from Marie Claire's guide to online privacy examine topics from algorithmic bias to cyberstalking to employees' rights. Aisha Sabatini Sloan's perceptive Paris Review columns explore her family history in Detroit and the toll of a brutal past and present. Sam Anderson reflects on a unique pop figure in "The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic" (New York Times Magazine). The collection concludes with Susan Choi's striking short story "The Whale Mother" (Harper's Magazine).

We Can Do Better Than This - An urgent manifesto for how we can shape a better world for LGBTQ+ people (Paperback): Amelia... We Can Do Better Than This - An urgent manifesto for how we can shape a better world for LGBTQ+ people (Paperback)
Amelia Abraham; Contributions by Beth Ditto, Owen Jones, Pepper Mint, Olly Alexander, …
R240 R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Save R48 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

How do we shape a better world for LGBTQ+ people? Olly Alexander, Peppermint, Owen Jones, Beth Ditto, Shon Faye and more share their stories and visions for the future. 'A vital addition to your bookshelf' Stylist, 5 Books for Summer 'Captivating... A must-read' Gay Times, Books of the Year In We Can Do Better Than This, 35 voices - actors, musicians, writers, artists and activists - answer this vital question, at a time when the queer community continues to suffer discrimination and extreme violence. Through deeply moving stories and provocative new arguments on safety and visibility, dating and gender, care and community, they present a powerful manifesto for how - together - we can change lives everywhere. 'Powerful, inspiring...urgent' Attitude 'Read and be inspired' Peter Tatchell 'Illuminating' Paul Mendez, author of Rainbow Milk 'Friendly and fierce' Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Gay Bar

Red, White & New - Tales of Young Russian Americans (Paperback): Ariel Kirman Red, White & New - Tales of Young Russian Americans (Paperback)
Ariel Kirman
R583 R486 Discovery Miles 4 860 Save R97 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Seduction and Betrayal (Paperback): Elizabeth Hardwick Seduction and Betrayal (Paperback)
Elizabeth Hardwick; Introduction by Deborah Levy 1
R314 R269 Discovery Miles 2 690 Save R45 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Elizabeth Hardwick's iconic essay collection Seduction and Betrayal is a radical portrait of women and literature, reissued with a new introduction by Deborah Levy.

'Hardwick's sentences are burned in my brain.' - Susan Sontag

Sidelined. Betrayed. Killed off. Elizabeth Hardwick dissects the history of women and literature.

In her most virtuoso work of criticism, she explores the lives of the Brontës, Woolf, Eliot and Plath; the fate of literary wives such as Zelda Fitzgerald and Jane Carlyle; and the destinies of fictional heroines from Richardson's Clarissa to Ibsen's Nora. With fierce empathy and biting wit, Hardwick mines their childhoods, families, and personalities to probe the costs of sex, love, and marriage. Shattering the barrier between writing and life, she asks who is the seducer and who the seduced; who the victim and who the victor.

First published in 1974, yet both urgently timely and timeless, Seduction and Betrayal explodes the conventions of the essay: and the result is nothing less than a reckoning.

Crossing the Sea - With Syrians on the Exodus to Europe (Hardcover): Wolfgang Bauer Crossing the Sea - With Syrians on the Exodus to Europe (Hardcover)
Wolfgang Bauer; Photographs by Stanislav Krupar; Translated by Sarah Pybus
R453 R370 Discovery Miles 3 700 Save R83 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Award-winning journalist Wolfgang Bauer and photographer Stanislav Krupar were the first undercover reporters to document the journey of Syrian refugees from Egypt to Europe. Posing as English teachers in 2014, they were direct witnesses to the brutality of smuggler gangs, the processes of detainment and deportation, the dangers of sea-crossing on rickety boats, and the final furtive journey through Europe. Combining their own travels with other eyewitness accounts in the first book of reportage of its kind, Crossing the Sea brings to life both the systemic problems and the individual faces behind the crisis, and is a passionate appeal for more humanitarian refugee policies.

London Labour and the London Poor (Paperback): Henry Mayhew London Labour and the London Poor (Paperback)
Henry Mayhew; Introduction by Rosemary O'Day; Series edited by Tom Griffith 1
R178 R153 Discovery Miles 1 530 Save R25 (14%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

With an Introduction by Rosemary O'Day. London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition. In scope, depth and detail it remains unrivalled. Mayhew takes us into the abyss, into a world without fixed employment where skills are declining and insecurity mounting, a world of criminality, pauperism and vice, of unorthodox personal relations and fluid families, a world from which regularity is absent and prosperity has departed. Making sense of this environment required curiosity, imagination and a novelist's eye for detail, and Henry Mayhew possessed all three. No previous writer had succeeded in presenting the poor through their own stories and in their own words, and in this undertaking Mayhew rivals his contemporary Dickens. 'To pass from one to the other', writes one authority,' is to cross sides of the same street'.

Pumpkinflowers - A soldier's story (Hardcover): Matti Friedman Pumpkinflowers - A soldier's story (Hardcover)
Matti Friedman 1
R400 R299 Discovery Miles 2 990 Save R101 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It was just one remote hilltop in an unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that are still felt today, foreshadowing the chaos of 21stcentury conflicts in the Middle East. The hill, in Lebanon, was called the Pumpkin; 'flowers' was the military code word for casualties.Part memoir, part reportage and part haunting elegy for lost youth, award-winning writer Matti Friedman's powerful account follows the band of young soldiers - the author among them - conscripted out of high school into holding this remote outpost, and explores how the task would change them forever. Pumpkinflowers is a lyrical yet devastating insight into the day-to-day realities of war, and a powerful coming-of-age narrative. Raw and beautifully rendered, this essential chronicle casts an unfl inching look at the nature of modern warfare, in which there is never a clear victor and innocence is not all that is lost.

America's Last Great Newspaper War - The Death of Print in a Two-Tabloid Town (Paperback): Mike Jaccarino America's Last Great Newspaper War - The Death of Print in a Two-Tabloid Town (Paperback)
Mike Jaccarino
R588 R505 Discovery Miles 5 050 Save R83 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE WEEK BY THE NEW YORK POST ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN AUDIOBOOK A from-the-trenches view of New York Daily News and New York Post runners and photographers as they stop at nothing to break the story and squash their tabloid arch-rivals. When author Mike Jaccarino was offered a job at the Daily News in 2006, he was asked a single question: "Kid, what are you going to do to help us beat the Post?" That was the year things went sideways at the News, when the New York Post surpassed its nemesis in circulation for the first time in the history of both papers. Tasked with one job-crush the Post-Jaccarino here provides the behind-the-scenes story of how the runners and shooters on both sides would do anything and everything to get the scoop before their opponents. The New York Daily News and the New York Post have long been the Hatfields and McCoys of American media: two warring tabloids in a town big enough for only one of them. As digital news rendered print journalism obsolete, the fight to survive in NYC became an epic, Darwinian battle. In America's Last Great Newspaper War, Jaccarino exposes the untold story of this tabloid death match of such ferocity and obsession its like has not occurred since Pulitzer- Hearst. Told through the eyes of hungry "runners" (field reporters) and "shooters" (photographers) who would employ phony police lights to overcome traffic, Mike Jaccarino's memoir unmasks the do-whatever-it-takes era of reporting-where the ends justified the means and nothing was off-limits. His no-holds-barred account describes sneaking into hospitals, months-long stakeouts, infiltrating John Gotti's crypt, bidding wars for scoops, high-speed car chases with Hillary Clinton, O.J. Simpson, and the baby mama of a philandering congressman-all to get that coveted front-page story. Today, few runners and shooters remain on the street. Their age and exploits are as bygone as the News-Post war and American newspapers, generally. Where armies once battled, often no one is covering the story at all. Funding for this book was provided by: Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund

Four Hundred Souls - A Community History of African America 1619-2019 (Hardcover): Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain Four Hundred Souls - A Community History of African America 1619-2019 (Hardcover)
Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain
R650 R541 Discovery Miles 5 410 Save R109 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices -- co-curated by Ibram X. Kendi, author of the million-copy bestseller How To Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire. The story begins with the arrival of twenty Ndongo people on the shores of the first British colony in mainland America in 1619, the year before the arrival of the Mayflower. In eighty chronological chapters, each by a different author and spanning five years, the book charts the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans to the present - a journey defined by inhuman oppression, visionary struggles and stunning achievements - in a choral work of exceptional power and beauty. Contributors include some of the leading writers, historians, journalists, lawyers, poets and activists of contemporary America. They use a variety of techniques - historical essays, short stories, personal vignettes and fiery polemics - and approach history from various perspectives: through the eyes of towering historical icons or the untold stories of ordinary people, populating these pages with hundreds of extraordinary lives and personalities. Together they illuminate countless new facets to the story of slavery and resistance, segregation and survival, migration and self-discovery, reinvention and hope. Through its diversity of perspectives the book shows that to be African American means many different things and demonstrates the startling range of experiences and ideas that have always existed within the community of Blackness. Four Hundred Souls is an essential work that redefines America and the way its history can be told.

The Dog's Last Walk - (And Other Pieces) (Paperback): Howard Jacobson The Dog's Last Walk - (And Other Pieces) (Paperback)
Howard Jacobson 1
R304 R247 Discovery Miles 2 470 Save R57 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'This second collection of his newspaper pieces is a reminder of just how good they were: sharp and playful, surreal and thoughtful, and occasionally...rather moving' New Statesman Hilarious, heartbreaking, provocative and affecting - Howard Jacobson's irresistible journalism reveals the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist in all his humanity. From the tiniest absurdities to the most universal joys and desolations, Jacobson writes with a thunder, passion and wit unmatched. Just as did his previous volume, Whatever It Is I Don't Like It, this glorious, unputdownable collection will delight, entertain, challenge and move.

Nothing To Envy - Real Lives In North Korea (Paperback): Barbara Demick Nothing To Envy - Real Lives In North Korea (Paperback)
Barbara Demick 1
R321 R254 Discovery Miles 2 540 Save R67 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

North Korea is Orwell's 1984 made reality: it is the only country in the world not connected to the internet; Gone with the Wind is a dangerous, banned book; during political rallies, spies study your expression to check your sincerity.

After the death of the country's great leader Kim Il Sung in 1994, famine descended: people stumbled over dead bodies in the street and ate tree bark to survive. Nothing to Envy weaves together the stories of adversity and resilience of six residents of Chongin, North Korea's third largest city.

From extensive interviews and with tenacious investigative work, Barbara Demick has recreated the concerns, culture and lifestyles of North Korean citizens in a gripping narrative, and vividly reconstructed the inner workings of this extraordinary and secretive country.

Impossible Owls - Essays from the Ends of the World (Hardcover): Brian Phillips Impossible Owls - Essays from the Ends of the World (Hardcover)
Brian Phillips 1
R525 R207 Discovery Miles 2 070 Save R318 (61%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating' Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad 'Recalls the work of John Jeremiah Sullivan and the late David Foster Wallace, with a dash of Janet Malcolm' Vogue From its opening journey into remote Alaska for the Iditarod Sled Dog Race, IMPOSSIBLE OWLS leads us on a kaleidoscopic exploration of contemporary reality. Brian Phillips takes us to a sumo tournament in Japan, the jungle in India, the studio of a great Russian animator, a royal tour of the Yukon Territory with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and into the weird heart of America. This exhilarating debut visits borders both real and imagined, and asks what it means, in our age, to travel to the end of the map.

The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner (Hardcover): Ring Lardner The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner (Hardcover)
Ring Lardner; Edited by Ron Rapoport; Foreword by James Lardner
R1,141 R943 Discovery Miles 9 430 Save R198 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ring Lardner's influence on American letters is arguably greater than that of any other American writer in the early part of the twentieth century. Lauded by critics and the public for his groundbreaking short stories, Lardner was also the country's best-known journalist in the 1920s and early 1930s, when his voice was all but inescapable in American newspapers and magazines. Lardner's trenchant, observant, sly, and cynical writing style, along with a deep understanding of human foibles, made his articles wonderfully readable and his words resonate to this day. Ron Rapoport has gathered the best of Lardner's journalism from his earliest days at the South Bend Times through his years at the Chicago Tribune and his weekly column for the Bell Syndicate, which appeared in 150 newspapers and reached eight million readers. In these columns Lardner not only covered the great sporting events of the era-from Jack Dempsey's fights to the World Series and even an America's Cup-he also wrote about politics, war, and Prohibition, as well as parodies, poems, and penetrating observations on American life. The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner reintroduces this journalistic giant and his work and shows Lardner to be the rarest of writers: a spot-on chronicler of his time and place who remains contemporary to subsequent generations.

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