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The Middlepause: on turning fifty

Marina Benjamin

In a society obsessed with living longer and looking younger, what does middle age nowadays mean? How should a fifty-something be in a world ceaselessly redefining ageing, youth, and experience?

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Last Days in Babylon: The Story of the Jews of Baghdad

Marina Benjamin

Marina Benjamin grew up in London, feeling estranged from her family’s Middle Eastern ways. But when Benjamin had her child she realized that she was losing her link to the…

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A Little Give: The Unsung, Unseen, Undone Work of Women

Marina Benjamin

In Marina Benjamin's new set of interlinked essays, she turns her astute eye to the tasks once termed 'women's work'. From cooking and cleaning to caring for an ageing relative…

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The Middlepause: On Turning Fifty

Marina Benjamin

In a society obsessed with living longer and looking younger, what does middle age nowadays mean? How should a fifty-something be in a world ceaselessly redefining ageing, youth, and experience?

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Insomnia

Marina Benjamin

An intense, lyrical, witty, and humane exploration of a state we too often consider only superficially.

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The Middlepause: on life after youth

Marina Benjamin

In a society obsessed with living longer and looking younger, what does middle age nowadays mean? How should a fifty-something be in a world ceaselessly redefining ageing, youth, and experience?

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A Little Give

Marina Benjamin

Sometimes I think that carrying--other people, the continuity of history, generational identity, the emotional load of the everyday--is the main thing that women do.

In Marina Benjamin's new set of…

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Insomnia

Marina Benjamin

Marina Benjamin’s Insomnia is part memoir and part philosophical inquiry. An intense and lyrical personal narrative into a condition that is on the rise, it treats insomnia as an experience…

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Last Days in Babylon: The Exile of Iraq’s Jews, the Story of My Family

Marina Benjamin

Acclaimed author Marina Benjamin explores through a personal narrative of her own family the odyssey–and ultimate exile–of the Jews in Iraq. 16 pp. of photos. Family tree. Map. Notes.

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Insomnia

Marina Benjamin

Marina Benjamin’s Insomnia is part memoir and part philosophical inquiry. An intense and lyrical personal narrative into a condition that is on the rise, it treats insomnia as an experience…

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Insomnia

Marina Benjamin

Marina Benjamin’s Insomnia is part memoir and part philosophical inquiry. An intense and lyrical personal narrative into a condition that is on the rise, it treats insomnia as an experience…

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The Middlepause: On Life After Youth

Marina Benjamin

In a society obsessed with living longer and looking younger, what does middle age nowadays mean? How should a fifty-something be in a world ceaselessly redefining ageing, youth, and experience?

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Rocket Dreams: How the Space Age Shaped Our Vision of a World Beyond

Marina Benjamin

Benjamin was entranced by the promise of space exploration. She did not guess that Apollo did not herald the beginning of an age of space exploration, but its end. She…

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Rocket Dreams: How the Space Age Shaped Our Vision of a World Beyond…

Marina Benjamin

From the first landings on the moon to the implications of our cyber worlds, this book takes a look at our fascination with space. It presents a study of how…

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A Little Give

Marina Benjamin

Featured in Stylist's 'Can't Miss' Books of 2023

Sometimes I think that carrying - other people, the continuity of history, generational identity, the emotional load of the everyday - is…

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Insomnia

Marina Benjamin

Marina Benjamin’s Insomnia is part memoir and part philosophical inquiry. An intense and lyrical personal narrative into a condition that is on the rise, it treats insomnia as an experience…

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Homer’s Iliad

Marina Coray

A commentary on Book 19 of the Iliad, in which the interpretation of speeches and events at the assembly of the Achaean army is presented. It is here that the…

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Homer’s Iliad

Marina Coray

The renowned Basler Homer-Kommentar of the Iliad, edited by Anton Bierl and Joachim Latacz and originally published in German, presents the latest developments in Homeric scholarship. Through the English translation…

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