John Freeman
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Thirty-six major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided America—including Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett, Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, Hector Tobar, Joyce Carol Oates, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Russo, Eula Bliss, Karen Russell, and many more
America is broken. You don’t need a fistful of statistics to...
America is broken. You don’t need a fistful of statistics to...
3) Wind, Trees
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A politically urgent yet timeless collection that studies
the devastating failings of humanity and the redemptive possibilities of love.
In Wind, Trees, John Freeman presents a meditation on
power and loss, change and adaptation. What can the trees teach us about
inhabiting space together? What might we gain if we admit we do not control the
wind, and cannot possibly carry all we've been handed? Offering a stark moral critique
of pandemic self-preservation-as...
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The literary anthology Freeman's, created by writer, critic, and former Granta editor John Freeman, has quickly gained an international following with wide acclaim. It has been called "bold [and] searching" by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and "impressively diverse" by O Magazine. This issue introduces a list of more than twenty-five poets, essayists, novelists, and short story writers from around the world who are shaping contemporary literature and...
5) Maps
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John Freeman's first poetry collection charts the impact of place on human experience. In Beirut, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Rome, and the foothills of a childhood hometown, Freeman navigates legacies of ruin and construction, illness and memory. Warm, mournful, and distinctly urban, Maps offers a compassionate perspective from the experience of one American embroiled in empire. From "You Are Here:" The city grinds its molars at night, carefully mined...
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Following his acclaimed debut issue of collected writing on the theme of "Arrival," the renowned editor and critic John Freeman circles a topic of constantly shifting definitions and endless fascination for writers: family.
In an essay called "Crossroads," Aminatta Forna muses on the legacy of slavery as she settles her family in Washington, DC-a place where she is routinely accused of cutting in line when she stands next to her white husband. Award-winning...
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The novel is alive and well, thank you very much
For the last fifteen years, whenever a novel was published, John Freeman was there to greet it. As a critic for more than two hundred newspapers worldwide, the onetime president of the National Book Critics Circle, and the former editor of Granta, he has reviewed thousands of books and interviewed scores of writers. In How to Read a Novelist, which pulls together his very best profiles (many of them...
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The award-winning president of the National Book Critics Circle examines the astonishing growth of email-and how it is changing our lives, not always for the better.
John Freeman is one of America's pre-eminent literary critics; now in this, his first book, he presents an elegant and erudite investigation into a technology that has revolutionized the way we work, communicate, and even think.
There's no question that email is an explosive phenomenon....
9) Ansiedad: La Guía Definitiva Para Aliviarlo A Usted Del Estrés Y Así Poder Liberarlo De La Ansiedad
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Tal como son nuestras vidas hoy en día, es natural que todos enfrentemos algo de estrés y ansiedad.
Pero cuando este pánico se vuelve abrumador y le impide vivir su vida, ¡es hora de actuar y controlar su ansiedad!
Con esta guía única, puede aprender todo sobre la ansiedad y los trastornos relevantes para que pueda controlar sus emociones y llevar una vida tranquila.
¿Cuál es la diferencia entre la ansiedad y la depresión? ¿O pánico...
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Featuring new work from Mieko Kawakami, Martín Espada, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Arthur Sze, Camonghne Felix, and more, the latest installment of the acclaimed literary journal Freeman's explores the irrevocably intertwined lives of animals and the humans that exist alongside themOver a century ago, Rilke went to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where he watched a pair of flamingos. A flock of other birds screeched by, and, as he describes in a poem,...
11) The Park
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In The Park, his second book of poetry, John Freeman uses a park as a petri dish, turning a deep gaze on all that pass through it. In language both precise and restrained, Freeman explores the inherent contradictions that arise from a place whose purpose is derived purely from what we bring to it——a park is both natural and constructed, exclusionary and open, unfeeling and burdened with sentimentality. Pulling from both history and his own meditations...
12) Freeman's: Power
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Spouse to spouse, soldier to citizen, looker to gazed upon, power is never static: it is either demonstrated or deployed. This thought-provoking issue of the acclaimed literary anthology Freeman's explores who gets to say what matters in a time of social upheaval.
Margaret Atwood posits it is time to update the gender of werewolf narratives. Aminatta Forna shatters the silences which supposedly ensured her safety as a woman of color walking in public...
14) 1 Buck
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Money talks. Shifting from one pocket to another, from one man's drama to another, a lowly dollar bill, "1 buck" takes us on an odyssey through the heart of a forgotten town in Louisiana.
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A baby boy, left alone in the African jungle after the deaths of his parents, is adopted by an ape and raised to manhood without ever seeing another human being. Set amid the vibrant colors and sounds of the savage African jungle, this classic work, rich in suspense and action, has beckoned generations of readers on a journey to romance and adventure. An exhilarating work that takes readers to that faraway place in their minds where dreams prevail....
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Enter the world of Little Nightmares, where a young girl in a bright raincoat must face her deepest fears… Huddled around a campfire in the mysterious depths of the Maw, the young girl known as Six listens to horrific, mind-bending tales from her fellow survivors, in this all-new tie-in to the critically-acclaimed videogame!