Ticknor is the first novel by Sheila Heti, the author of the acclaimed story collection The Middle Stories and, with Misha Glouberman, the essay collection The Chairs are Where the People Go. George Ticknor is trying to reconcile his...
Intellectuals
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Author:Heti, SheilaSummary: -
Author:McCullough, David G.Summary:Through this inspiring history, McCullough offers an account of ambitious Americans who traveled to Paris between 1830 and 1900 to make their greatest accomplishments.
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Author:Davies, RobertsonSummary:Dr. Hullah was a man who lived on the outside, concealing his nature and observing humanity. As he takes us through his long and varied life in the theatre, the army, and the consulting room, he focuses on the comedic canvas of life....
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Author:Hesse, HermannSummary:Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises...
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Author:Ellul, Jacques, Vanderburg, Willem H.Summary:Originally broadcast on CBC Radio's Ideas as a series of interviews, Jacques Ellul's first-person approach here makes his ideas accessible to readers looking for new ways of understanding our society, and also gives unique new insight...
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Author:Bégin, Monique, Théry, Chantal, Bersianik, Louky, Blais, Marie-Claire, Gagnon, Gabriel, Gagnon, Madeleine, Marcotte, Gilles, Rocher, GuySummary:En 1938, Jeanne Lapointe est la première jeune laïque diplômée de la toute nouvelle Faculté des lettres de l’Université Laval et la première récipiendaire de la médaille d’or (pour ses études de langue française) décernée par le...
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Author:Cayley, DavidSummary:If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it? Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering, and controlling the world, where everything was subject to science, but...
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Author:Wang, NingSummary:Following Mao Zedong’s Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957–58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to “re-education” by the state. In Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness, Ning Wang draws on labour farm archives and other newly...
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Author:Haberman, ArthurSummary:The year 1930 can be seen as the dawn of a period of darkness, the beginning of a decade that Auden would style “low, dishonest.” That year was one of the most reflective moments in modernity. After the optimism of the nineteenth...
