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    Desire and Fate

    David Rieff

    Brilliant and unsparing essays on the blind spots and maladies of contemporary culture.

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    At the Same Time

    Susan Sontag

    Contains sixteen essays. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post 9/11 America and political activism, this title includes these essays that encompass the themes that dominated the author’s life and…

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    Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963

    Susan Sontag

    A selection from Susan Sontag’s diaries (from 1947-1963) that takes us from early adolescence though to when Sontag was in her early thirties. It is an honest self-portrait which is…

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    Divorcing

    Susan Taubes,David Rieff

    A stunning novel about childhood, marriage, and divorce by one of the most interesting minds of the 20th century, now back in print for the first time since 1969.

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    Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World

    David Rieff

    The author turns his critical eye to the City of Angels, discussing L.A.‘s gridlocked freeways, immigrant neighborhoods, posh Beverly Hills, popular culture, health consciousness, and more, and speculates on the…

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    The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami

    David Rieff

    The acclaimed author of Going to Miami presents an engrossing portrait of one of America’s most successful immigrant groups: Miami’s exiled Cubans, who have transformed the city from tourist town…

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    At the Point Of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention

    David Rieff

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    Swimming In A Sea Of Death: A Son’s Memoir

    David Rieff

    An extraordinarily open and moving account of Susan Sontag’s final months, written by her son and drawing on previously unpublished letters and journals.

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    A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis

    David Rieff

    Drawing on first-hand reporting from hot war zones around the world - Bosnia, Rwanda, Congo, Kosovo, Sudan and, most recently, Afghanistan - David Rieff shows us what humanitarian aid workers…

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    Against Remembrance

    David Rieff

    In this searing and controversial polemic, esteemed American journalist David Rieff argues against our passion for the past. He looks at how memory serves nationalistic history every ANZAC Day and…

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    Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West

    David Rieff

    Discusses the war in Bosnia, the U.N. contingents standing by as the genocide continues, and aid workers risking their lives to help victims.

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    The Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty-First Century

    David Rieff

    Hailed as invaluable…a substantial work of political thought, (New Statesman) in a groundbreaking report, based on years of reporting, David Rieff assesses whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is…

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    In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies

    David Rieff

    A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history’s wounds

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    Swimming in a Sea of Death

    David Rieff

    Both a memoir and an investigation, Rieffs tribute to his mother–writer Susan Sontag–explores her final battle with cancer and looks at the state of medical science and leading cancer physicians…

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    The Lawless Roads

    Graham Greene

    Graham Greene’s 1930’s travels in Mexico following the brutal anti-clerical purges of President Calles.

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    Susan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s & 70s (LOA #246): Against Interpretation / Styles of Radical Will / On Photography / Illness as Metaphor / Uncollected Essays

    Susan Sontag

    With the publication of her first book of criticism, Against Interpretation, in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultural and political transformation. What is…

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    Susan Sontag on Women

    Susan Sontag

    "A new collection of Susan Sontag's essays about women, edited by David Rieff and introduced by Merve Emre"--

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    Bed for the Night

    Rieff David

    Draws on first-hand accounts from war zones throughout the world to illustrate a growing gap between humanitarian ambition and capability, tracing the histories of major organizations while noting the impact…

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    Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know

    Roy Gutman,David Rieff,Anthony Dworkin

    Originally published in 1999, this title examines conflicts in light of international humanitarian law. Through case studies, definitions of key terms and explanations of what is legal and what is…

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    Humanities in Review: Volume 1

    The articles in this volume are diverse, each article can be taken as representative of ‘humanistic understanding’ of its stated subject and based upon lectures given under the auspices of…

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    As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

    Susan Sontag

    A second volume of journals shares intimate reflections on the writer’s artistic and political development during a trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War and throughout her…

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    Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics

    Cynthia Ozick, Linda Kinstler, Michael Ignatieff, Timothy Noah, Sohrab Ahmari, Camille Ralphs, Yaroslav Hrytsak, David Rieff, Len Gutkin, Elliot Ackerman

    Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time. Liberties, is a collection of the most significant…

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