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Many Subtle Changes In Praise of Potential Literature by LEVIN BECKER DANIEL
Category: Culture
What sort of society could bind together Jacques Roubaud, Italo Calvino, Marcel Duchamp, and Raymond Queneau - and Daniel Levin Becker, a young American obsessed with language play? Only "The Oulipo", the Paris-based experimental collective founded in 1960 and fated to become one of literature's quirkie ...Show more
Museum Visits by Eric Chevillard; Daniel Levin Becker (Translator); Daniel Medin (Editor)
Category: Culture | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French humorist Éric Chevillard, published in English for the first time Éric Chevillard is one of France's leading stylists and thinkers, an endlessly inventive observer of the everyday whose erudition and imagination honor the legacy of Swift and V ...Show more
Nothing But a Circus by Daniel Levin
Category: History
'Brilliant observations on the anthropology of power. You will laugh aloud and won't put it down' Daniel Kahneman In this eye-opening exploration of the human weaknesses for power, Daniel Levin takes us on a journey through the absurd world of our global elites, drawing unforgettable sketches of some of ...Show more
Nothing but a Circus: Misadventures among the Powerful by Daniel Levin
Category: Biography
'Brilliant observations on the anthropology of power. You will laugh aloud and you won't put it down' Daniel Kahneman In this eye-opening exploration of the human weakness for power, Daniel Levin takes us on a hilarious journey through the absurd world of our global elites, drawing unforgettable sketche ...Show more
The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier ; Daniel Levin Becker (translator)
Category: Fiction
Told in rhythmic, propulsive prose that weaves seamlessly from one consciousness to the next over the course of a day, Laurent Mauvignier's The Birthday Party is a gripping tale of the violent irruptions of the past into the present, written by a major contemporary French writer. Buried deep in rural Fr ...Show more
The Last Ember by Daniel Levin
Category: Fiction
Jonathan Marcus was a promising young archaeologist studying at the American Academy in Rome, when a terrible accident during an illegal excavation resulted in a friend's death and Jonathan's expulsion from the academy. Jonathan abandoned archaeology for the law, developing a reputation as a skilful adv ...Show more
The Mosaic - We Are All Connected by Daniel B. Levin
Category: Non-Fiction
A ground-breaking book in the tradition of The Alchemist and The Celestine Prophecy, The Mosaic, by marketing expert and activist Daniel Bruce Levin invites you to see the world from a new point-of-view-- one that focuses on what connects us to each other and brings us happiness. The Mosaic follows the ...Show more
Violins and Hope - From the Holocaust to Symphony Hall by Daniel Levin; Franz Welser-Möst (Foreword by); Assi Weinstein (Other)
Category: Film
Amnon Weinstein, an Israeli master luthier (violin maker), began a project years ago that may be one of the most creative, effective, and magnificent approaches to education on the topic of the Holocaust. Trained by three of the most revered Cremona, Italian luthiers of the twentieth century, Weinstein' ...Show more
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