The Religion of the Day
This book is related to From Christendom to Apostolic Mission, which also examines the transition from Christendom to a return to...
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Ignorance and Bliss
Mark Lilla starts from a very human paradox: we want to know the truth, but we also want to protect ourselves from it. From there, he develops an intellectual history essay that ranges from Genesis and...
Postwar Europe
The author was born in the United States, earned his doctorate at Oxford, and has been a professor at institutions in the United Kingdom. In just over 200 pages, he presents a synthesis of the years from...
Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears
It is a very brief essay, but one of extraordinary philosophical density. Földényi begins with an episode that functions almost like a symbolic scene: Dostoyevsky, exiled in Siberia, comes into contact with...
The Orphanage by the Lake
The author has appeared on the USA Today bestseller lists and has received favorable reviews for his novels.
This book begins a series featuring a private detective, Hazel, who lives in Manhattan’s...
Before I go
Advice from a father to his children and grandchildren, like a testament before he dies. In this book, he distills all the wisdom of his life into a series of letters to his children about what really...
Story of a A Life: Childhood and Schooldays
The first volume of A Life: The Years Far Away by the Russian writer Konstantin Paustovsky (1892–1968), who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. This six-volume autobiography is perhaps his best...
Thunderclap
Laura Cumming es la crítica de arte principal del Observer desde 1999. Ganadora del Premio James Tait Black y finalista de los premios Baillie Gifford, Costa y Rathbone's Folio.
Esta nueva obra suya...
Unreasonable Hospitality
It tells the story of how he transformed Eleven Madison Park restaurant in New York, turning it into one of the best restaurants in the world. However, the book goes far beyond gastronomy. Its central idea...
Against a tide of evil
The author is a British doctor and public health expert who was sent to Sudan in 2003 as a UN representative; peace between the government and the opposition forces seemed imminent. His biography helps to...