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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
Patrick Besson
Patrick Besson (born 1956)

journalist, literary critic

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Les Lâches et les autres
La boum
Insolences
Les Braban
Ma rentrée littéraire
Vous n'auriez pas vu ma chaîne en or ?
La Science du baiser
Belgrade 99
Statue Du Commandeur(la) (French Edition)
La femme riche
28, boulevard Aristide Briand
Le deuxieme couteau
Le plateau télé
Haldred oder die Liebe in den Zeiten der EU
Un état d'esprit
Santo Sepulcro! Holy Grave! (Alianza Literaria)
La Titanic
Les Voyageurs du Trocadéro
La p arasseuse
Divers gauche
Lui (English and French Edition)
Ah! Berlin et Autres Recits
Lecz zabije rzeka bialego czlowieka
Romans, tome 1
Sonnet pour Florence Rey et autres textes
Marilyn Monroe non e morta
28, boulevard Arisitide-Briand, suivi de Tour Jade
Ecole Des Absents
Les Braban
Les Frères de la consolation
L' orgie échevelée
La statue du commandeur
Avec les Serbes
Les petits maux d'amour
Divers gauche
Le Deuxieme Couteau (French Edition)
Pas trop près de l'écran
La maison du jeune homme seul
Julius Et Isaac
L' école des absents
Science Du Baiser(la) (English and French Edition)
Le dîner de filles
Amicalement rouge
le diner de filles
Saint-S'Pulcre ! (English and French Edition)
Accessible Certaine M'Lancolie (English and French Edition)
Les uns, les autres
Le deuxième couteau
De familie Braban
Je sais des histoires
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
Antonio Larreta
Antonio Larreta (1922-2015)

actor, playwright, translator, literary critic, journalist, stage actor, film director, theatre critic

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El jardín de invierno
The last portrait of the Duchess of Alba
El Guante / The Glove
Volavérunt
El guante
Volaverunt
A todo trapo
Volavérunt
Ningún Max
Juan Palmieri
Las maravillosas
Volaverunt
Hola, che
Kto ubil gert Łsogini Łu Al £ba, ili Volaverunt
El sombrero chino
C. Buddingh'
C. Buddingh' (1918-1985)

poet, translator, television presenter, literary critic

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Dagboeknotities, 1967-1972
Tussen de bedrijven
Lexicon der poëzie
Augustus
Een mooie tijd om later te worden
Buddingh' van A tot Z
Daar ga je, Deibel!
Is deze ook goed meneer?
De eerste zestig
Is deze ook goed meneer? De evergreen in de Nederlandse poëzie
Niets spreekt vanzelf
Een, twee, drie, in godsnaam
Lateraal
Nieuwe gorgelrijmen
Verveling bestaat niet
Wil het bezoek afscheid nemen?
Wat je zegt ben je zelf
De avonturen van Bazip Zeehok
Het houdt op met zachtjes regenen
W & W of Voor moeders is het altijd het ergste
Gedichten 1938-1970
Water en vuur
Het mes op de gorgel
Eenvouds verlichte waters
Een centje voor de erepoort
Buddingh' gebundeld
Een rookwolkje voor God en andere miniaturen
Zo is het dan ook nog weer eens een keer
Is dit genoeg
Deze kant boven
Wil het bezoek afscheid nemen? Een bestiarium
Is deze ook goed meneer?
Bericht aan de reizigers
West coast
Verzen van een Dordtse Chinees
Poëzie is een daad van bevestiging
De tweede zestig
Agnieszka Kosińska
Agnieszka Kosińska (born 1967)

polonist, literary critic, literary agent

  • Jagiellonian University

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Miłosz w Krakowie
Czesław Miłosz
Rozmowy o Miłoszu
Czesław Miłosz
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
Gaetano Tumiati
Gaetano Tumiati (1918-2012)

journalist, literary critic

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Morire per vivere
Prigionieri nel Texas
I due collegiali
Das Gipskorsett
Il busto di gesso
Il busti di gesso
Questione di statura