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Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector; Katrina Dodson; Benjamin Moser
Category: Fiction
Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have eighty- nine in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexu ...Show more
Making it by Benjamin Moser
Category: Biography Memoir
Norman Podhoretz, the son of Jewish immigrants, grew up in the tough Brownsville section of Brooklyn, attended Columbia on a scholarship, and later received degrees from the Jewish Theological Seminary and Cambridge University. Making It is his blistering account of fighting his way out of Brooklyn and ...Show more
Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser
Category: Biography
The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her an emblem of the seductions - a ...Show more
Sontag - Her Life by Benjamin Moser
Category: Biography
Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. "Susan Sontag lived a life of singular contradictions: an intellectual featured on Vanity Fair; gay but married to a man at 17; an independent thinker whose first book was published under her husband’s n ...Show more
Sontag - Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser
Category: Politics
Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyOne of O Magazine's Best Books of the YearOne of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Best Books of the YearOne of the Seattle Times' Most Interesting Biographies of the YearOne of New York Magazine's Best and Biggest Books to Read This FallOn ...Show more
The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector; Benjamin Moser (Editor); Johnny Lorenz (Translator)
Category: Fiction
Perhaps written in flight from the "shipwreck of introspection," it is a book unlike any other in the Lispector canon, a novel about simplyseeing the external world. Its heroine Lucr cia is utterly mute and unreflective. She may have no inner life. Moreover, the plot itself is utterly unlike any other L ...Show more
The Chandelier by Clarice Lispector; Magdalena Edwards; Benjamin Moser
Category: Fiction
Now, for the first time in English we have Clarice Lispector's second novel--a radical part of what made her a Brazilian legend Fresh from the enormous success of her debut novel Near to the Wild Heart, Hurricane Clarice let loose something stormier with The Chandelier. In a body of work renowned for it ...Show more
The Hour of the Star - 100th Anniversary Edition by Clarice Lispector; Benjamin Moser (Translator); Paulo Gurgel Valente (Afterword by)
Category: Classics
The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabé ...Show more
The Silence of the Rain by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza (tr Benjamin Moser)
Category: Fiction
The first in a stunning new literary crime series featuring Detective Espinoza of the Rio de Janeiro Police Department. A handsome young businessman is found dead in downtown Rio, a suicide who left no note, who had everything to live for. But by the time the police are called, all traces of the man's i ...Show more
The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser
Category: Art and Design
A charming and highly personal introduction to the artists of the Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of the place where he had ended up, Moser threw himself into the world of the painters of the Dutch Golden Age, Rem ...Show more
The Upside-Down World - Meetings with the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser
Category: Art
Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of this new place, he threw himself into the Dutch museums. Soon, he found himself unearthing the strange, inspiring and sometimes terrifying stories of the artists who shaped one of the most luminou ...Show more