Steven Ray rated The Outsider: 4 stars
The Outsider by Colin Wilson
The Outsider is the seminal work on alienation, creativity and the modern mind-set. First published over forty years ago, it …
I’m interested in a multitude of things, including social justice, socialism, history, poetry, magical realism (fiction), capitalism, race, class struggle, wine, baseball, music…
So mostly non-fiction, though I read maybe two novels per year.
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The Outsider is the seminal work on alienation, creativity and the modern mind-set. First published over forty years ago, it …
Quite the study of the psyche of the Outsider in our society. The author delves into some of the major characters of modern literature, as well as the temperaments of various artists. I confess that I didn't always grasp what he was trying to communicate (and I hadn't read all of the works he referenced), but I learned a lot nonetheless.
Yeats once wrote of a poem, saying he had made it out of a mouthful of air. Burgess advances this …
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"Acclaimed fantasy author China Mieville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside down The renowned fantasy and …
From the acclaimed author of Art Sex Music comes a vital meditation on womanhood, creativity and self-expression, and a revelatory …
Fleeing persecution in Indochina, the young Ho Chi Minh arrived in Paris as World War I was sputtering to a …
Fleeing persecution in Indochina, the young Ho Chi Minh arrived in Paris as World War I was sputtering to a …
"This ground-breaking collection of essays examines the scope and consequences of digital vigilantism – a phenomenon emerging on a global …
This collection brings together for the first time select works in English by the major Swedish modernist poet and critic …
"Technologies shape who we are, how we organize our societies and how we relate to nature. For example, social media …
Our fear of the world ending, like our fear of the dark, is ancient, deep-seated and perennial. It crosses boundaries …
"Soso Tham (1873?1940), the acknowledged poet laureate of the Khasis of northeastern India, was one of the first writers to …
'Engaging With Everyday Sounds' is a rich and inspiring exploration of the role of sounds in everyday life, including their …
"Noam Chomsky visited India in 1996 and 2001 and spoke on a wide range of subjects, from democracy and corporate …