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

Four Years in the Cauldron - The Gripping Story of an Irishman Making Sense of America (Hardcover): Brian O'Donovan Four Years in the Cauldron - The Gripping Story of an Irishman Making Sense of America (Hardcover)
Brian O'Donovan
R526 R480 Discovery Miles 4 800 Save R46 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021 The riveting story of a nation at a crucial crossroads From the start of his stint as RTE's Washington Correspondent Brian O'Donovan's lively and authoritative reporting of a tumultuous period in American life has been must-watch TV. Four Years in the Cauldron is his account of four busy years working in the US. He draws a compelling picture, full of telling colour and detail, of covering its fractured politics, particularly the extraordinary presidency of Donald Trump and the knife-edge election of Joe Biden. And he gives his unique perspective on big stories such as the Covid emergency, the Capitol riot, the murder of George Floyd and trial and conviction of his police killer. He also provides a visceral sense of what it's like living in a country shaped by guns, God, far-fetched conspiracy theories and the running sore of racism. Yet, drawing on his network of contacts, neighbours, friends and family connections outside the white-hot heat of Washington politics, he writes about the lives of ordinary American people with nuance and understanding. Four Years in the Cauldron is a must-read for getting to grips with the US at a moment of profound reckoning. ______ 'An intriguing look at an extraordinary time . . . the book brings us to some fascinating places' Ryan Tubridy 'A great read' The Last Word With Matt Cooper

Interviews With Legendary Writers From Beyond (Paperback): Cathy McGough Interviews With Legendary Writers From Beyond (Paperback)
Cathy McGough
R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Who We Meet Along the Way (Paperback): Brandon Tosti Who We Meet Along the Way (Paperback)
Brandon Tosti
R355 Discovery Miles 3 550 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Rethinking the New Technology of Journalism - How Slowing Down Will Save the News (Hardcover): Seong Jae Min Rethinking the New Technology of Journalism - How Slowing Down Will Save the News (Hardcover)
Seong Jae Min
R2,226 Discovery Miles 22 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

News organizations have always sought to deliver information faster and to larger audiences. But when clicks drive journalism, the result is often simplistic, sensational, and error-ridden reporting. In this book, Seong Jae Min argues in favor of "slow journalism," a growing movement that aims to produce more considered, deliberate reporting that better serves the interests of democracy. Min explores the role of technology in journalism from the printing press to artificial intelligence, documenting the hype and hope associated with each new breakthrough as well as the sometimes disappointing-and even damaging-unintended consequences. His analysis cuts through the discussion of clickbait headlines and social-media clout chasing to identify technological bells and whistles as the core problem with journalism today. At its heart, Min maintains, traditional shoe-leather reporting-knocking on doors, talking to people, careful observation and analysis-is still the best way for journalism to serve its civic purpose. Thoughtful and engaging, Rethinking the New Technology of Journalism is a compelling call for news gathering to return to its roots. Reporters, those studying and teaching journalism, and avid consumers of the media will be interested in this book.

The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Essays, Articles, and Reviews 1922-1934 - Volume 26 (Hardcover): Evelyn Waugh The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Essays, Articles, and Reviews 1922-1934 - Volume 26 (Hardcover)
Evelyn Waugh; Edited by Donat Gallagher
R5,061 Discovery Miles 50 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each text's manuscript development and textual variants. The edition's General Editor is Alexander Waugh, Evelyn Waugh's grandson and editor of the twelve-volume Personal Writings sequence. This first volume of Evelyn Waugh's Articles, Essays, and Reviews contains every traceable piece of journalism that research could uncover written by Waugh between January 1922, when he first went up to Oxford, and December 1934, when he had recently returned from British Guiana and was enjoying the runaway success of A Handful of Dust. Long interred in fashion magazines, popular newspapers, sober journals, undergraduate reviews, and BBC archives, 110 of the 170 pieces in the volume have never before been reprinted. Several typescripts of articles and reviews are published here for the first time, as are a larger number of unsigned pieces never before identified as Waugh's. Original texts, so easily distorted in the production process, have been established as far as possible using manuscript and other controls. The origins of the works are explored, and annotations to each piece seek to assist the modern reader. The volume embraces university journalism; essays from Waugh's years of drift after Oxford; forcefully emphatic articles and contrasting sophisticated reviews written for the metropolitan press from 1928 to 1930 (the most active and enterprising years of Waugh's career); reports for three newspapers of a coronation in Abyssinia and essays for The Times on the condition of Ethiopia and on British policy in Arabia. Finally, in early 1934 Waugh travelled for three months in remote British Guiana, resulting in nine travel articles and A Handful of Dust, acclaimed as one of the most distinguished novels of the century. Waugh was 19 when his first Oxford review appeared, 31 when the Spectator printed his last review of 1934. This is a young writer's book, and the always lucid articles and reviews it presents read as fresh and lively, as challenging and opinionated, as the day they first appeared.

Is Every Cab Driver Called Roger? (Paperback): Mounira Chaieb Is Every Cab Driver Called Roger? (Paperback)
Mounira Chaieb
R705 Discovery Miles 7 050 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Happy Reader - Issue 15 (Paperback): The Happy Reader - Issue 15 (Paperback)
R121 R112 Discovery Miles 1 120 Save R9 (7%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

For avid readers and the uninitiated alike, this is a chance to reengage with classic literature and to stay inspired and entertained. The concept of the magazine is simple: the first half is a long-form interview with a notable book fanatic and the second half explores one classic work of literature from an array of surprising and invigorating angles.

Judy Blame's Obituary - Writings on Fashion and Death (Paperback): Derek McCormack Judy Blame's Obituary - Writings on Fashion and Death (Paperback)
Derek McCormack
R474 Discovery Miles 4 740 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
To the Yetts o' Hell - Neil Munro and War (Paperback): Neil Munro To the Yetts o' Hell - Neil Munro and War (Paperback)
Neil Munro; Introduction by Finella Wilson
R643 Discovery Miles 6 430 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

As Fenella Wilson points out in her Introduction to this collection of Neil Munro's writings on war, the theme is represented in each aspect of his career as a writer - in his fiction, journalism and poetry. A number of the short stories here, including two Para Handy tales, were published Munro's lifetime, as was his introduction to Fred Farrell's 1920 The 51st Division War Sketches, and some of the Poems. What has not previously 'seen the light of day' since The Great War are the reports which Munro wrote as a war correspondent, as a civilian and later in uniform, in 1914, 1917 and 1918. They are vivid, personal, accounts from the Western Front, widely published in a range of newspapers of the time. Stories of Scottish regiments - in kilts, with their Pipers - abound. They cushion, but don't diminish, the reality of everyday life both for soldiers on all sides in the conflict, and for the local population, amid the 'havoc' of the battlefields; 'the filthy job of human slaughter'.

The Making of a Journalist - Santhi & I: A Memoir (Paperback): David R. Zimmerman The Making of a Journalist - Santhi & I: A Memoir (Paperback)
David R. Zimmerman
R339 R316 Discovery Miles 3 160 Save R23 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Dark Earth and Selected Prose from the Great Depression (Paperback): Sanora Babb The Dark Earth and Selected Prose from the Great Depression (Paperback)
Sanora Babb; Introduction by Erin Battat
R408 R381 Discovery Miles 3 810 Save R27 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Dream - Practical Advice For The Everyday Dreamer (Paperback): Jeremy Taylor Dream - Practical Advice For The Everyday Dreamer (Paperback)
Jeremy Taylor
R328 R303 Discovery Miles 3 030 Save R25 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Interrogating the Abyss (Paperback): Chris Kelso Interrogating the Abyss (Paperback)
Chris Kelso
R379 Discovery Miles 3 790 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
New Stories We Tell - True Tales By America's New Generation of Great Women Journalists (Paperback): Kaylen Ralph, Joanna... New Stories We Tell - True Tales By America's New Generation of Great Women Journalists (Paperback)
Kaylen Ralph, Joanna Demkiewicz
R590 R549 Discovery Miles 5 490 Save R41 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Where Some Things are Remembered - Profiles and Conversations (Paperback): Dom Moraes Where Some Things are Remembered - Profiles and Conversations (Paperback)
Dom Moraes; Edited by Sarayu Srivatsa
R363 Discovery Miles 3 630 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Seeds in a Dark Fruit Sky - Short Stories from Haiti (Paperback): Rosie Alexander Seeds in a Dark Fruit Sky - Short Stories from Haiti (Paperback)
Rosie Alexander; Translated by Marie Lily Cerat; Edited by Amanda Orozco
R348 Discovery Miles 3 480 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Op Die Man Af (Afrikaans, Paperback): Freek Robinson Op Die Man Af (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Freek Robinson
R342 Discovery Miles 3 420 Ships in 5 - 7 working days

Vir 45 jaar het Freek Robinson die grootste nuusgebeure in die ou én nuwe Suid-Afrika eerstehands beleef. As TV-joernalis en nuusanker was hy ’n gereelde besoeker in miljoene Suid-Afrikaners se huise.

In sy memoires deel Freek dit wat hy agter die skerms beleef het.

Dié boek verweef die lewe en loopbaan van een van ons land se mees gerespekteerde en geliefde joernaliste en gee ’n besonderse blik op die ingrypende nuusomwentelinge in ons onlangse geskiedenis.

The 'Jewish Gandhi' Of Cochin - A 20th Century Nationalist/Zionist & His Cochin Assembly Speeches (Paperback): Bala... The 'Jewish Gandhi' Of Cochin - A 20th Century Nationalist/Zionist & His Cochin Assembly Speeches (Paperback)
Bala Menon, Essie Sassoon
R377 R356 Discovery Miles 3 560 Save R21 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Monsieur Maritain, Meet Miss O'Connor - An Imaginary Dialogue (Paperback): Joseph Nicolello Monsieur Maritain, Meet Miss O'Connor - An Imaginary Dialogue (Paperback)
Joseph Nicolello
R478 Discovery Miles 4 780 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Women in Journalism - The Best of Nellie Bly (Paperback): Nellie Bly Women in Journalism - The Best of Nellie Bly (Paperback)
Nellie Bly
R950 Discovery Miles 9 500 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days (Paperback): Nellie Bly Around the World in Seventy-Two Days (Paperback)
Nellie Bly; Contributions by Frances E. Willard
R529 Discovery Miles 5 290 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
More Than a Menu - Food and its meaning in Asian cultures across the U.S. (Paperback): Michael Longinow, Tamara J. Welter More Than a Menu - Food and its meaning in Asian cultures across the U.S. (Paperback)
Michael Longinow, Tamara J. Welter
R775 Discovery Miles 7 750 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
To Know John Lennon - An Intimate Portrait from His Friends, Colleagues, and Family (Paperback): Aidan Prewett To Know John Lennon - An Intimate Portrait from His Friends, Colleagues, and Family (Paperback)
Aidan Prewett
R470 R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Save R26 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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
R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Ships in 10 - 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.

Collected Couteau. Essays and Interviews (Third, Revised Edition) (Paperback): Rob Couteau Collected Couteau. Essays and Interviews (Third, Revised Edition) (Paperback)
Rob Couteau
R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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