Desde que se iniciara como escritor, Eliot Weinberger encontró en el ensayo un territorio inexplorado que a partir de entonces no ha dejado de investigar. Ha creado un fascinante compendio de antropología universal reduciendo la distancia...
L'edició original d'aquest llibre (19 ways of Looking at Wang Wei) és un treball fascinant que l'assagista Eliot Weinberger va fer a partir de dinou traduccions a l'anglès -que més tard ampliaria a vint-i-nou-...
Angels have soared through Western culture and consciousness from Biblical to contemporary times. But what do we really know about these celestial beings? Where do they come from, what are they made of, how do they communicate and perceive? The celebrated...
This exquisitely composed photo-novel by French artist-writer Anouck Durand (born 1975)--collaged from photographic archives, personal letters and propaganda magazines--tells a true story that begins in Albania during World War II, stops in China during...
The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty--from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth's loose interpretatio...
With An Elemental Thing, Weinberger turns from his celebrated political chronicles to the timelessness of the subjects of his literary essays. With the wisdom of a literary archaeologist-astronomer-anthropologist-zookeeper, he leads us through histories,...