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America’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents two hundred brilliant essays …

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Master craftsman (Los Angeles Times) and beloved author Rick Bass explores ecological, social, and p…

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Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in LiteratureJon Fosse said farewell to theory early in his career, c…

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Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its m…

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In Flight of the Wild Gander, renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell—in his first collection of …

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