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Chuck Klosterman
Chuck Klosterman (born 1972)

journalist, music critic, literary critic

  • University of North Dakota, University of North Dakota College of Arts and Sciences

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Killing Yourself to Live
But What If We're Wrong?
Fargo rock city
Killing Yourself to Live
Chuck Klosterman IV
I Wear The Black Hat Grappling With Villains Real And Imagined
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Eating the dinosaur
I Wear The Black Hat Grappling With Villains Real And Imagined
Downtown Owl
Stories for Ways and Means
The visible man
The Nineties
Raised in Captivity
Downtown Owl
Nineties
Eating the Dinosaur
Hypertheticals
But What If We're Wrong?
Chuck Klosterman X
Downtown Owl
"Ha Ha," He Said. "Ha Ha."
The best American nonrequired reading, 2003
Raised in Captivity
SUPERtheticals
Fargo Rock City
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
No More Knives
Local Clairvoyants Split over Future
Sulking with Lisa Loeb on the Ice Planet Hoth
Not Guilty
4,8,15,16,23,42
Don't Look Back in Anger
All I Know Is What I Read in the Papers
I, Rock Chump
Chuck Klosterman IV
Matarse para vivir
Chuck Klosterman on Pop
T Is for True
This Is Emo
33 : Celtics vs. Lakers
I Wanna Get Free
Certain Rock Bands You Probably Like
Billy Sim
Bending Spoons with Britney Spears
Chuck Klosterman on Sports
Amazing Mcnugget Diet
I Wear the Black Hat
Chuck Klosterman on Living and Society
Advanced Genius Theory
Billy Joel Essays
How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found
Super Bowl XL : "When Blogging Was Young, We Were Already Old"
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Chaos
Mysterious Days
Awe-Inspiring Beauty of Tom Cruise's Shattered, Troll-Like Face
Led Zeppelin Essays
Monogamy
Toby over Moby
Karl Marx of the Hardwood
That '70s Cruise
Crazy Things Seem Normal, Normal Things Seem Crazy
Unbuttoning the Hardest Button to Button
Band on the Couch
Through a Glass, Blindly
Pirates
Cultural Betrayal
Fail
ABBA 1, World 0
Super People
Oh, the Guilt
What We Talk about When We Talk about Ralph Sampson
Something Instead of Nothing
What Happens When People Stop Being Polite
Chuck Klosterman on Rock
Inventory
Television
American Radiohead
Advancement
Eine zu 85% wahre Geschichte
Jack Factor
Porn
Viva Morrissey!
Chuck Klosterman X
Gorunur Adam
Lady or the Tiger
Debriefing Agent Zero
Five Interesting Corpses
Pong X Infinity
This Is Zodiac Speaking
Football
Appetite for Replication
Robots
Ten Seconds to Love
Bonds vs. America
Can I Tell You Something Weird?
Nemesis
Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television
Taking the Streets to the Music
Dude Rocks Like a Lady
Being Zack Morris
Passion of the Garth
Three Stories Involving Pants
Fargo Rock City, for Real
Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture
Los noventa
Singularity
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Los trapos sucios
Fargo Rock City
I Do Not Hate the Olympics
It Will Shock You How Much It Never Happened
George Will vs. Nick Hornby
Tomorrow Rarely Knows
El sombrero del malo
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Eine zu 85% wahre Geschichte
Pegate Un Tiro Para Sobrevivir
Cees Nooteboom
Cees Nooteboom (born 1933)

poet, literary critic, journalist, translator

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Omweg naar Santiago
Een avond in Isfahan
Nootebooms Hotel
Vreemd water
Berlijnse notities
De zucht naar het Westen
Labyrint Europa
De omweg naar Santiago
Terugkeer naar Berlijn
Roads to Berlin
De wereld een reiziger
Berlijn 1989-2009
Avontuur Amerika
Scheepsjournaal
Op reis
Rituelen
In Nederland
All souls' day
Paradijs verloren
A song of truth and semblance
Philip and the others
The knight has died
Nooit gebouwd Nederland
The Eyes Of War
Rituals
Allerzielen
Een lied van schijn en wezen
Volgende verhaal
Nomad's hotel
Light Everywhere
Van de lente de dauw
Allerzielen
Rituale
A Song of Truth and Semblance
The Captain of the Butterflies (Sun and Moon Classics)
The Following Story
Mokusei! Een liefdesverhaal
The Dolder Grand
Nooteboom's hôtel
Het volgende verhaal
De koning van Suriname
Perdido El Paraiso
In the Dutch Mountains
Rituales
So könnte es sein
Das Paradies ist nebenan. Roman
Le Chant de l'être et du paraître
Letters to Poseidon
Der Buddha hinter dem Bretterzaun. Eine Erzählung
Rückkehr nach Berlin
De Parijse beroerte
El Paraiso Esta Aqui Al Lado
Van de lente de dauw
L'Histoire suivante
Philippe et les autres
Wie wird man Europäer?
Rode regen
Cees Nooteboom entdeckt Eugenio Montale
Die Insel, das Land. Geschichten aus Spanien
Zurbarán & Cees Nooteboom
Le chant de l'être et du paraitre
De Boeddha achter de schutting
Het gezicht van het oog
In den niederländischen Bergen. Roman
Die Dame mit dem Einhorn. Europäische Reisen
Mokusei. Eine Liebesgeschichte
In Ecos Labyrinth
Das Gesicht des Auges / Het gezicht van het oog. Gedichte. Zweisprachig Deutsch / Niederländisch
Der Ritter ist gestorben
Bitter Bolivia
Nie gebaute Niederlande
Dans les montagnes des Pays-Bas
Een ochtend in Bahia
Open als een schelp, dicht als een steen
Hotel Nomada
In the eye of the storm
Selbstbildnis eines Anderen. Träume von der Insel und der Stadt von früher
Mokusei! El Buda Tras La Empalizada
Der Umweg nach Santiago
La Historia Siguiente (Siruela/Bolsillo)
Gyges en Kandaules
Waar je gevallen bent, blijf je
Rituels
Roter Regen
Tumbas de poetas y pensadores
La tiranía de la libertad
De zwanen van de Theems
El Desvio a Santiago
Der Umweg nach Santiago.
In den niederländischen Bergen
De doden zoeken een huis
De ontvoering van Europa
De brief
A dark premonition
25 Buildings You Should Have Seen Amsterdam - Arcam Pocket 15
Zelfportret van een ander
Kinderspiele
Following Story (Harvest in Translation)
Philip En De Anderen
Nootebooms hotel
Nachttrein naar Mandalay
Foxes and other stories
Mokusei! & De Boeddha achter de schutting
Die folgende Geschichte
Rollende stenen ; Getijde
Het zwarte gedicht
Bitterzoet
Aas
Le Chevlier est mort ..
El Dia de Todas Las Almas
Het volgende verhaal
In de Bergen van Nederland
Venezia
Paradies verloren
De filosoof zonder ogen
Fantasma
Gemaakte gedichten
Noticias de Berlín
El azar y el destino
Gesloten gedichten
Labyrint Europa
Verleden als eigenschap
Met lopen nooit meer opgehouden
Het geluid van Zijn naam
Christus in Guadalajara.
Een lied van schijn en wezen
Le matelot sans levres. histoires tropicales
De roeiers van Port Dauphin
's Nachts komen de vossen
Voorbije passages
Saigoku
Licht overal
Brieven aan Poseidon
Vuurtijd, ijstijd
In Dutch Mountains
Zo kon het zijn
Philip und die anderen
Over het Japanse klooster Kozan-ji en de beroemde dierentekeningen
Koude gedichten
Een middag in Bruay
De ridder is gestorven
Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson (born 1973)

poet, faculty member, essayist, art critic

  • CUNY Graduate School and University Center

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The Argonauts
The Red Parts
Jane
The art of cruelty
Bluets
The latest winter
On Freedom
Rachel Harrison - Life Hack
Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions
Something Bright, Then Holes
Penguin Modern Poets 6
Shiner
Mavibent
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (1812-1870)

philosopher, journalist, autobiographer, literary critic, opinion journalist, pedagogue, politician, teacher, revolutionary

  • Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow Imperial University

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Byloe i dumy
My Past and Thoughts
Ends and beginnings
The memoirs of Alexander Herzen
Ends and beginnings
Byloe i dumy
Otryvki iz "Bylogo i dum."
Camicia rossa
Byloe i dumy
Yi ge jia ting de xi ju
Lettres inédites
Otryvki iz "Bylogo i dum."
רוברט אוון
Byloe i dumy
Kto vinovat?
Who Is to Blame
Letters from France and Italy, 1847-1851
Byloe i dumy
My exile in Siberia
From the other shore, translated from the Russian by Moura Budberg and The Russian people and socialism, translated from the French by Richard Wollheim
A Herzen Reader
Du développement des idées révolutionnaires en Russie
Kolokol
From the other shore
The memoirs of Alexander Herzen
Who is to blame : a novel in two parts
The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen (1 Volume in 2 Parts)
Selected philosophical works
From the Other Shore
Kreshchenai︠a︡ sobstvennostʹ
Lettres inédites à sa fille Olga
Mein Leben
Pisʹma izdaleka
O literature
From the Other Shore & The Russian People and Socialism
Childhood, youth and exile
Staryĭ mīr i Rossīi͡a︡
Izbrannye filosofskie proizvedeniia︡
Sochinenii︠a︡ i perepiska s N. A. Zakharʹinoĭ
The memoirs of Alexander Herzen, Parts I and II
Bȳloe i dumȳ
O vospitanii i obrazovanii
Letters from France and Italy, 1847-1851
Thieving Magpie
O razvitii revoli͡u︡t͡s︡ionnykh ideĭ v Rossii
Erinnerungen
My exile
Gert͡s︡en i Ogarev v krugu rodnykh i druzeĭ
Mysli ob iskusstve i literature
La Russie et l'Occident
The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen, Parts I and II
From the other shore
From the other shore
Sochineniya v dvukh tomakh
Childhood, youth & exile
Prervannye razskazy
Ausgewählte philosophische Schriften
Kto vinovat? ; Soroka-vorovka
Le cerveau et l'activité cérébrale au point de vue psychophysiologique
Sochineniya
Sochineniia v deviati tomakh
Briefe aus dem Western
Zagovor 1825 goda
Byloe i dumy Iskandera
Razdumʹe (Raznyi︠a︡ varīat︠s︡īi na staryi︠a︡ temy): (raznyi︠a︡ var−iat︠s︡−ii na ..
Neizdannye pis'ma A.I. Gertsena k N.I. i T.A. Astrakovym
Izbrannye proizvedeniya
Sobranie sochineniĭ
Die gescheiterte Revolution
Aus den Memoiren eines Russen
O razvitii revolyutsionnykh idei v Rossii
Izbrannoe proizvedeniya
Izbrannye proizvedenii͡a︡
Povesti i rasskazy
Lettres de France et d'Italie (1847-1852)
Who is to blame?
La mazourka
Byloe i dumy ; Detskai︠a︡ i universitet ; Ti︠u︡rʹma i ssylka ; Vladimir-na-Kli︠a︡zʹme ; Moskva, Peterburg i Novgorod
Sochinenii͡a︡
O sotsializme
Gert︠s︡en v zagranichnykh kollekt︠s︡ii︠a︡kh
Ėstetika, kritika, problemy kulʹtury
Pis'ma izdaleka
Khudozhestvennye proizvedenii͡a︡
Ausgewählte philosophische Schriften
Erindringer
From the other shore, and The Russian people and socialism
Izbrannye pedagogicheskie vyskazyvanii͡a︡
Byloe u dumy
Aus den memoiren eines Russen ..
Lettres de France et d'Italie, 1847-1852
Who is to blame?
Erlebtes und Gedachtes
Sochinenii͡a︡ v dvukh tomakh
Ob ateizme, religii i tserkvi
A. I. Gert͡s︡en ob ateizme, religii i t͡s︡erkvi
Proza
Sobranie sochinenii
"Kolokol"
A.I. Gertsen ob iskusstve
Sobranie sochineniĭ v vosʹmi tomakh
Le monde russe et la révolution
Nouvelle phase de la littérature russe
A. I. Gert͡s︡en ob iskusstve
S togo berega
Pisʹma ob izuchenii prirody
Selected philosophical works
Golosa iz Rossii
Sochinenīi͡a︡
Eseje filozoficzne
Izbrannye proizvedenni︠a︡
Soroka-vorovka
Kto vinovat?
The thieving magpie
A UN VECCHIO COMPAGNO
Über die Verfinsterung der Geschichte
Ti︠u︡rʹma i ssylka
From the other shore
Gert︠s︡en v zagranichnykh kollekt︠s︡ii︠a︡kh
Pisʹma iz Frant︠s︡īi i Italīi Iskandera, (1847-1852)
O razvitii revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ionnykh ideĭ v Rossii
Za pi︠a︡t li︠e︡t (1855-1860)
From the other shore, and The Russian people and socialism, an open letter to Jules Michelet
Kolokol
Pisʹma izdaleka
[Zagovor 1825 goda]
Golosa iz Rossii
Novye materialy
Proza
De l'autre rive
Russkiĭ zagovor 1825 g.
Sobranie sochineniĭ
Neizdannye pisʹma A.I. Gertsena k N.I. i T.A. Astrakovym
Shui zhi zui
Izbrannoe
La France ou l'Angleterre?
S togo berega
Russlands soziale Zustände
Izbrannye trudy
Sochineniia
Sbornik posmertnykh stateĭ
O sot︠s︡ializme
Lettres de France et d'Italie (1847-1852)
Kreshchenai︠a︡ sobstvennostʹ
Russkoĭ narod i sot︠s︡īalizm
"Kolokol"
14 dekabri︠a︡ 1825 i Imperator Nikolaĭ
Kto vinovat?
Die Pflicht vor Allem
Aus den memoiren eines Russen
Camicia Rossa
Dvizhenīe obshchestvennoĭ mysli v Rosīi
Kto vinovat
La mazourka
Staryĭ mir i Rossīi︠a︡
O Powstaniu Styczniowym
Sochinenii︠a︡ v chetyrekh tomakh
Sbornik posmertnykh stateĭ Aleksandra Ivanovicha Gert︠s︡ena
Die russische Verschwörung und der Aufstand vom 14. December 1825
Pisʹma iz Frant︠s︡ii i Italii ; S togo berega
Eyn oyfruf tsu yunge layṭ
Prervannye razskazy Iskandera [pseud.].
Kolokol
Frantsiia ili Angliia?
Die gescheiterte Revolution
Le Peuple russe et le socialisme
Gertsen i Ogarev v Shveĭtsarīi
Kolokol
la conspiration russe de 1825
My past and thoughts
Razskazy
Ob iskusstve
Oeuvres
Lettre adressée à l'Empereur de Russie
Poli︠a︡rnai︠a︡ zvi︠e︡zda
Kto vinovat?
La camicia rossa, di Alessandro Hertzen
Ėstetika, kritika, problemy kulʹtury
Polnoe sobranīe sochinenīĭ i pisem
From the other shore
Kreshchenai︠a︡ sobstvennostʹ Iskandera
Kontsy i nachala Iskandera
Polnoe sobranīe sochinenīĭ i pisem
"Kolokol"
Le monde russe et la révolution
Le monde ruse et la révolution
Povesti i rasskazy
Erindringer: Paris, Italien, Paris, 1847-1852
A.I. Gert︠s︡en
Liberalizm i sot︠s︡ializm--Zapad i Rossii︠a︡
Unterbrochene Erzählungen
Du développement des idées révolutionnaires en Russie
Soroka vorovka
La conspiration russe de 1825
Erinnerungen
Sochineniia
Radwa El Aswad
Radwa El Aswad (born 1974)

critic

  • Ain Shams University, Notre Dame Des Apôtres

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سيد قطب - رحلة بين ضفاف أسطورة التناقضات
حفل المئوية
بالأمس كنت ميتاً
خداع واحد ممكن
كتاب أديان وطوائف مجهولة - جوهر غائب ومفاهيم مغلوطة
زجزاج
كل هذا الصخب
تشابك
André Aciman
André Aciman (born 1951)

literary critic, journalist, romanist, literary theorist, literary historian

  • Harvard University, Lehman College

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Out of Egypt
False papers
Tell me true
Out of Egypt
Out of Egypt
Out of Egypt
Out of Egypt
Call Me by Your Name
Find Me
Eight white nights
Enigma variations
The Best American Essays 1999
World Monuments
Letters of transit
Harvard Square
Chiamami col tuo nome
ENCUÉNTRAME
llámame por tu nombre
The Proust project
Eight white nights
Alibis
Last Summer in the City
Harvard Square
Call Me By Your Name Book Series 2 Books Collection Set By Andre Aciman
ALIBIS
Noem me bij jouw naam
Homo Irrealis
Homo Irrealis
When I first held you
Entrez
Harvard Square
The Maid By Nita Prose, Find Me By André Aciman & Peak Peril By Sharna Jackson 3 Books Collection Set
Letters of transit
Call Me by Your Name
find me
Homo Irrealis
ZnajdĹş mnie - Andre Aciman [KSIÄĹťKA]
Alexandrian Summer
Vind me (Dutch Edition)
Bul Beni
Adinla Cagir Beni
False Papers
Proust Projesi
Eight White Nights
Harvard Meydani
Homo Irrealis / Homo Irrealis : the Would-Be Man Who Might Have Been
Lejos de Egipto
Trouve-moi
La Huida de Egipto
Les variations sentimentales
Damals in Alexandria. Erinnerung an eine verschwundene Welt
Yi ni de ming zi hu huan wo
Find Me a Novel
Valse papieren
The Proust Project
Sekiz Beyaz Gece
Ocho noches blancas
Call Me by Your Name (Chinese Edition)
Find Me
Variaciones enigma
Justine
Ultima notte ad Alessandria
Alibis
Ieşrea din Egipt
Find Me (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic)
The Best American Essays 2020
Ruf mich bei deinem Namen
Llámame por tu nombre
Harvard Square
Enigma Variations
Ai de bian zou qu =
Llamame Por Tu Nombre
Letters of Transit
Eight White Nights
Harvard Square
Ronald Fangen
Ronald Fangen (1895-1946)

journalist, literary critic

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I nazistenes fengsel
En kristen verdensrevolusjon
Det nye liv
En lysets engel
Syndefald, skuespil i tre akter
De 16 beste
En kvinnes vei
Duell
På bar bunn
Duell
Essays
Duel
Mannen som elsket rettferdigheten
Lucio D'Ambra
Lucio D'Ambra (1880-1939)

journalist, film director, literary critic, translator, film producer

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Il poeta in mezzo alla cipria
Gli anni della feluca
L'uomo che ha fatto uscire il papa
L' Autore delle duecento commedie (Carlo Coldoni) [
Le opere e gli uomini
Il trageda legato alla Sedia
Il miraggio
Trent'anni di vita letteraria
L' abate nei giardini di Vienna
La sosta sul ponte
I due modi d'aver vent'anni
Il regno del "Cotillon"
Conversazioni di mezzanotte
Il re, le torri, gli alfieri
Il mestiere di marito
Il Fascino slavo
Ritratto d'uomo
Il mestiere di marito
La formica su la cupola di San Pietro
Goffredo Mameli
Mister Whiskey, mio rivale
Anime in sottordine
Il passo nella mia strada
Il Bernini
La via di Damasco
Il "Damo viennese"
L' uomo che ha fatto uscire il papa
Angioli della fine di giornata
Goffredo Mameli
Penelope dei nostri giorni
Yanthis