How To Be Alone

How To Be Alone

by | Mar 15, 2023

How to be Alone ESSAYS 2004 From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a collection of essays that reveal him to be one of our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics While the essays in this collection range in subject matter...
Farther Away

Farther Away

by | Aug 31, 2022

Farther Away Essays 2013 In this incisive collection of speeches and essays, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recalling his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus,...
The Kraus Project

The Kraus Project

by | Jun 20, 2022

The Kraus Project Essays & Translation 2013 A hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and farsighted writers in Europe. In his self-published magazine, Die Fackel, Kraus brilliantly attacked the popular media’s...
The End of the End of the Earth

The End of the End of the Earth

by | Dec 24, 2021

The End of the End of the Earth Essays 2018 The essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like “a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run straight into them.” For the past twenty-five years, even as his novels have earned him...
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