Dit is het verhaal van iemand die met vallen en opstaan kiest voor het leven als zenboeddhist. Je zult hem niet als zodanig herkennen als je hem tegenkomt, niet op straat en ook niet in een gesprek. Een beetje zenboeddhist scheert zijn hoofd kaal, maar hij niet.

Het begint met de beschrijving van een astma-aanval en wat daar wat de schrijver betreft bij komt kijken.

Rond zijn twintigste leest hij voor de eerste keer over zen, ontdekt het vegetarisme en gaat op zoek naar het ‘oerboek’ dat ...

The book behind the hit TV series and movie.

In 1929 the author went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This book is an account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life.

What makes a house truly beautiful? Why are many new houses so ugly? Why do we argue so bitterly about sofas and pictures - and can differences of taste ever be satisfactorily resolved? This book explores one of our most intense but often hidden love affairs: with our houses and their furnishings.

Fran Lebowitz in

Public Speaking

A Martin Scorsese Picture

Now an HBO® Documentary Film

The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together in one volume, with a new preface, two bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, by an "important humorist in the classic tradition" (The New York Times Book Review) who is "the natural successor to Dorothy Parker" (British Vogue). In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of con...

New expanded edition of iconic British musician Jah Wobble's crictically acclaimed autobiography featuring a new introduction by Jon Savage.

Female prisoners of conscience and activists speak out against torture in Iranian prisons

Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary vivacity to everything from profiles of long-dead writers to urgent constitutional analysis to an unsparing scrutiny of the woeful affairs of the nation itself. The astonishing essays collected in The Deadline offer a prismatic portrait of Americans...

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A bold new interpretation of why technology has all too often benefited elites - and how we must reshape the path of innovation to create true shared prosperity.