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Jack Halberstam
Jack Halberstam (born 1961)

professor, philosopher, scholar of English, literary scholar, man of letters

  • University of Minnesota, University of California, Berkeley

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Female Masculinity
Kiss My Genders
Trans*
What's Queer about Queer Studies Now?
Rethinking Commodification
Wild Things
Skin shows
Global Divas
The Queer Art of Failure
Posthuman bodies
Racial castration
In a Queer Time and Place
The drag king book
Scotch Verdict
Rewilding
Asian American Sporting Cultures
Wildness
Rrose is a rrose is a rrose
Monstrous intimacies
Gaga feminism
Bestia y el Soberano / the Beast and the Sovereign
Lorenza Böttner
Alex Da Corte, As Long As the Sun Lasts
Kerstin Drechsel
No church in the wild
Profession 2012
Strange Affinities
So Much Wasted
Animal Within : Creatures in
Time binds
Who Is Queen? 1
Cuvallamanin Queer Sanati
Videonale.15
Trans*Positionen zu Geschlecht und Architektur
Rebecca Horn
Desiring China
Ha Jin
Ha Jin (born 1956)

poet

  • Heilongjiang University, Brandeis University

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Waiting
War trash
In the Pond
Ocean of Words
The Bridegroom
The Best American Short Stories 1997
A Free Life
The Crazed
A good fall
A map of betrayal
The Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009
Nanjing requiem
Under the Red Flag
Wreckage
LA Espera
The writer as migrant
Facing shadows
A Free Life (Vintage International)
The boat rocker
Crazed, The
War Trash ("Zhan Fei Pin", in Traditional Chinese, NOT in English)
Between silences
Ocean of Words:Army Stories
Warten
Deng dai =
Nanjing an hun qu
Nanjing requiem
Ein schlechter Scherz. Roman
A distant center
Nanjing requiem
The crazed
War trash
Zai ta xiang xie zuo
En El Estanque
La Longue Attente
Guang tian hua ri-xiang cun de gu shi ('Under the Red Flag' in Traditional Chinese Characters)
Zhe teng dao di
Qiṣāṣ al-kātib al-Ṣīnī Hā Jīn
Ling yi ge kong jian
Hao bing
Nanking Requiem
אשפת מלחמה
LA Espera
Sombras del Pasado
Luo di
Cuo guo de shi guang
Crazed Proof
Bei pan zhi nan
Lu shang de jia yuan
Mŏsjin ch'urak
Guang tian hua ri
Xin lang
Nanjing an hun qu
Javier Marías
Javier Marías (1951-2022)

translator, professor, journalist, editor

  • Complutense University of Madrid

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Vidas escritas
Miramientos
Vidas Escritas (Siruela/Bolsillo)
Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí
Corazón tan blanco
Tu rostro mañana 1
Todas las almas
Mientras ellas duermen
Negra espalda del tiempo
Literatura y fantasma
Tu rostro mañana, vol. 2
Los enamoramientos
Seré amado cuando falte
Dark Back of Time
Harán de mí un criminal
Demasiada nieve alrededor
Mano de sombra
Tu rostro mañana, vol. 3
Vida del Fantasma
Pasiones pasadas
Voyage along the horizon
Veces Un Caballero (Planeta Fabula)
El oficio de oír llover
Your Face Tomorrow
El monarca del tiempo
Poison, Shadow and Farewell
El siglo
Así empieza lo malo
Los villanos de la nación
Tu Rostro Manana / 2 Baile y Sueño
Voyage Along the Horizon
Donde Todo Ha Sucedido
Salvajes y sentimentales
Mala Indole
Hombre sentimental
Quand j'étais mortel
Berta Isla
Entre enternidades
Cuando fui mortal
Vida del fantasma
Lo que no vengo a decir
El hombre que parecía no querer nada
Los dominios del lobo
Vida del fantasma
Le roman d'Oxford
Das Leben der Gespenster.(Wagenbach SALTO)
Während die Frauen schlafen
Alle Seelen
No más amores
Morgen in der Schlacht denk an mich
Während die Frauen schlafen. Cassette. Erzählungen
Als ich sterblich war
Una Noche De Amor / A Night of Love
Das Leben der Gespenster
Cuando los tontos mandan
Während die Frauen schlafen. CD. Erzählungen
Morgen in Der Schlact Denk an Mich
Ce que dit le majordome
Dans le dos noir du temps
Veneno y sombra y adiós
Juro no decir nunca la verdad
Baile y Sueño
Alle unsere frühen Schlachten. Fußball- Stücke
Il tuo volto domani
Schwarzer Rücken der Zeit
Die Reise über den Horizont
Der Gefuhlsmensch
Mala índole
Alle unsere frühen Schlachten
Tu rostro mañana (Danza y sueño / Fiebre y lanza / Veneno, sombra y adiós)
Gualta
Travesía del horizonte
Literatura y Fantasma - Edicion Ampliada (Textos de Escritor)
Geschriebenes Leben. Ironische Halbporträts
Tomás Nevinson
Cuentos Europeos
El Quijote de Wellesley
Der Gefühlsmensch
Lección pasada de moda
Venice, an Interior
Ni se les ocurra disparar
Mala índole
Ven a buscarme
Las huellas dispersas
Salvajes y sentimentales
Madame du Deffand and the Idiots
Tiempos ridículos
Enamoramientos
Los dominios del lobo
Yar?nki Y³z³n, Birinci Cilt
Aquella mitad de mi tiempo
Man of Feeling
Aci Bir Baslangic Bu
Geschriebenes Leben
Yazınsal Yaşamlar
Die sterblich Verliebten
Dans ve Rüya
Enamoramentos
Schwarzer Rücken der Zeit
Yarin Savasta Beni Düsün
Duygusal Adam
Los dominios del lobo
Selvagens e sentimentais
Beyaz Kalp
Morgen in der Schlacht
Cuando la sociedad es el tirano
Keine Liebe mehr
Tüm Ruhlar
Tres cuentos didácticos
Yarinki Yuzun Cilt 3
Tomás Nevinson
Όταν ήμουν θνητός
Veneno y sombra-- y adiós
The Library of the Lost
Los enamoramientos
¿Será buena persona el cocinero?
Karasevdalilar
Lección pasada de moda
Los villanos de la nación
Desde Que Te Vi Morir
SI YO AMANECIERA OTRA VEZ
Kötü Niyet Öyküleri
Between Eternities and Other Writings
Enamoramientos, Los
Der Gefühlsmensch
Zamanin Karanlik Yüzü
Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997)

philosopher, historian, diplomat, historian of ideas, sociologist, political scientist

  • University of Oxford, St Paul's School

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Russian Thinkers
Karl Marx
Personal impressions
Trois essais sur la condition juive
Manhiguto shel Ṿaitsman
Chaim Weizmann
Reshamim ishiyim
Karl Marx, his life and environment
Four Essays on Liberty
The sense of reality
The hedgehog and the fox
Against the Current
The proper study of mankind
The magus of the north
Political Ideas in the Romantic Age
The roots of romanticism
The Crooked Timber of Humanity
Three critics of the Enlightenment
The First and the Last
Concepts and categories
The age of enlightenment
The Soviet Mind
Letters, 1928-1946
Washington despatches, 1941-1945
Liberty
Vico and Herder
Flourishing
Freedom and Its Betrayal
Building
Fathers and children
Isaiah Berlin, en toutes libertés
Essays on J. L. Austin
Historical inevitability
Unfinished dialogue
Enlightening
Two concepts of liberty
The Power of Ideas
Selected writings
Revolutionary Russia
Conversations with Isaiah Berlin
Tolstoy and History
Sobre la libertad
Jewish slavery and emancipation
Affirming
The life and opinions of Moses Hess
Der Nationalismus
The age of enlightenment; the eighteenth century philosophers
Montesquieu
John Stuart Mill and the ends of life
Mr. Churchill in 1940
Chaim Wiezmann
Chaim Weizmann
First Love and Other Stories
Chaim Weizmann as leader
Istorii︠a︡ svobody
Le Hérisson et le Renard
Contra la corriente
Romanticism and liberation [and] Romanticism and social change
Einstein and humanism
História universal dos judeus
Zionist politics in wartime Washington
Historical inevitability
Neged ha-zerem
Two concepts of liberty
John Stuart Mill and the ends of life, etc
Filosofii︠a︡ svobody
Oblicza liberalizmu
Four essays on liberty
ha-Ḳipod ṿeha-shuʻal
Chaim Wiezmann
Fathers and children
The divorce between the sciences and the humanities
Istorii︠a︡ svobody
Gay Talese
Gay Talese (born 1932)

journalist

  • University of Alabama

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The kingdom and the power
Unto the sons
The overreachers
A writer's life
A writer's life
Unto the Sons
Unto the Sons
Unto the sons
Frank Sinatra has a cold
Thy Neighbor's Wife
The Gay Talese reader
Fame and obscurity
Fame and obscurity
Honor Thy Father
The Best American essays
The kingdom and the power.
The bridge
Writing Creative Nonfiction
The silent season of a hero
High notes
The voyeur's motel
Honor thy father
Fame and obscurity
Italians in America
New York: a serendipiter's journey
The Best American Essays, 1987
El puente
The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times
Honrarás a tu padre
New York
Frank Sinatra Has A Cold And Other Essays
Thy Neighbour's Wife
Von den Vätern auf die Söhne
Retratos y encuentros - 4. edición
Bridge
El silencio del héroe
Vida de un escritor
Los Hijos
Thy neighbor's wife
Honor Thy Father
Onora il padre
Honor Thy Father
Gay Talese. Phil Stern. Frank Sinatra Has a Cold
Los hijos
Honor They Father
La mujer de tu prójimo
Honrarás a tu padre
The Bridge
La mujer de tu prójimo
La mujer de tu prójimo
Kingdom and the Powe
Talese, Sinatra
Writer's Life
Bartleby and Me
El motel del voyeur
Honrarás a tu padre
Thy Neighbor's Wife by Gay Talese (1980-12-23)
La mujer de tu prójimo
La mujer de tu prójimo
Honra Teu Pai
Voyeur's Motel
Gay Talese
The kingdom and the power
Town Without Time
The neighbor's wife
Thy Neighbor's Wife by Gay Talese (1980-04-01)
O Voyeur
The Kingdom and the Power (The Story of the Men Who Influence the Institution That Influences the World)
Untitled 2
La femme du voisin
The neighbor's wife
Voyeur's Motel, The
Fame and Obscurity
Der Voyeur
Fame and obscurity, portraits
A century of Sinatra
Motel Del Voyeur / the Voyeur's Motel
Writing creative nonfiction
Dr. Bartha's Brownstone
Reino e o Poder
The Overreachers
Brigitta Helbig-Mischewski
Brigitta Helbig-Mischewski (born 1963)

slavist, poet, literary critic, translator, polonist, Germanist, literary scholar, man of letters

  • Ruhr University Bochum, University of Szczecin

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Stracona bogini
Anioły i świnie w Berlinie!
Niebko
Hilfe
Enerdowce i inne ludzie, czyli Jak nie zostałem bohaterem
Fährmann grenzenlos
Jonathan Bowen
Jonathan Bowen (born 1956)

computer scientist, engineer

  • Dragon School, University of Oxford

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Aileen Ward
Aileen Ward (1919-2016)

biographer

  • Radcliffe College, Smith College

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