Theory in Literary Theory & Criticism & Fiction & Literature Audiobooks

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Mythologies

The Complete Edition, in a New Translation

by Roland Barthes ...

Narrated by John Lee ...

Unabridged

9 hours 13 min

What is astrology? Fiction for the bourgeoisie. The Tour de France? Anepic. The brain of Einstein? Knowledge reduced to a formula. Like iconicimages of movie stars or the rhetoric of politicians, they arefabricated. Once isolated from the events that gave birth to them, these"mythologies" appear for what they are: the ideology of mass culture.When Roland Barthes's groundbreaking Mythologies ... Read more

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What is astrology? Fiction for the bourgeoisie. The Tour de France? Anepic. The brain of Einstein? Knowledge reduced to a formula. Like iconicimages of movie stars or the rhetoric of politicians, they arefabricated. Once isolated from the events that gave birth to them, these"mythologies" appear for what they are: the ideology of mass culture.When Roland Barthes's groundbreaking Mythologies
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Craft in the Real World

Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping

by Matthew Salesses ...

Narrated by Matthew Salesses ...

Unabridged

5 hours 56 min

This national bestseller is "a significant contribution to discussions of the art of fiction and a necessary challenge to received views about whose stories are told, how they are told and for whom they are intended" (Laila Lalami, The New York Times Book Review).The traditional writing workshop was established with white male writers in mind; what we call craft is informed by their cultural ... Read more

$15.99 USD

This national bestseller is "a significant contribution to discussions of the art of fiction and a necessary challenge to received views about whose stories are told, how they are told and for whom they are intended" (Laila Lalami, The New York Times Book Review).The traditional writing workshop was established with white male writers in mind; what we call craft is informed by their cultural
... Read more
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Beginning theory

An introduction to literary and cultural theory: Fourth edition

by Peter Barry ...

Narrated by Lucy Scott ...

Series series Beginnings
Unabridged

13 hours 25 min

Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field. The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions ... Read more

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Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field. The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions
... Read more
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Cervantes o la crítica de la lectura

by Carlos Fuentes ...

Narrated by Noé Velázquez ...

Unabridged

3 hours 21 min

«Don Quijote, el loco, está loco no sólo porque ha creído lo que ha leído. También está loco porque cree, como caballero andante, que la justicia es su deber y que la justicia es posible.»Desde Zona sagrada hasta Terra Nostra, la narrativa de Carlos Fuentes oscilaba entre la sobriedad en el relato y la obra como una broma que asaltaba la realidad para trastocarla.... ... Read more

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«Don Quijote, el loco, está loco no sólo porque ha creído lo que ha leído. También está loco porque cree, como caballero andante, que la justicia es su deber y que la justicia es posible.»Desde Zona sagrada hasta Terra Nostra, la narrativa de Carlos Fuentes oscilaba entre la sobriedad en el relato y la obra como una broma que asaltaba la realidad para trastocarla....
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Ojos herejes

Crónicas sobre la belleza para lectores rebeldes

by Sergio Rodríguez Blanco ...

Narrated by Fabián García ...

Unabridged

5 hours 44 min

En catorce crónicas, que son también ensayos sobre literatura y arte desde o sobre México, Ojos herejes examina los procesos intelectuales de la creación y cuestiona la momentánea fe que nos exige el arte.El itinerario de Sergio Rodríguez Blanco nos recuerda a las mejores páginas de sus dos modelos del viajero intelectual: el José Vasconcelos del Ulises criollo y el Sergio Pitol de El arte de la ... Read more

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En catorce crónicas, que son también ensayos sobre literatura y arte desde o sobre México, Ojos herejes examina los procesos intelectuales de la creación y cuestiona la momentánea fe que nos exige el arte.El itinerario de Sergio Rodríguez Blanco nos recuerda a las mejores páginas de sus dos modelos del viajero intelectual: el José Vasconcelos del Ulises criollo y el Sergio Pitol de El arte de la
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Au Revoir, Tristesse

Lessons in Happiness from French Literature

by Viv Groskop ...

Narrated by Gabrielle Baker ...

Unabridged

9 hours 41 min

"Groskop skillfully juggles memoir, biography, philosophy, and literary criticism to create a delightful tour through some of French literature's greats." —Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling authorLike many people the world over, Viv Groskop wishes she was a little more French. A writer, comedian, and journalist, Groskop studied the language obsessively starting at age eleven, and spent ... Read more

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"Groskop skillfully juggles memoir, biography, philosophy, and literary criticism to create a delightful tour through some of French literature's greats." —Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling authorLike many people the world over, Viv Groskop wishes she was a little more French. A writer, comedian, and journalist, Groskop studied the language obsessively starting at age eleven, and spent
... Read more
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson ...

Narrated by Tom Baker ...

Series series Argo Classics
Abridged

1 hour 39 min

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time.In the foggy streets of London, two men – one a respectable doctor and one a depraved killer – ... Read more

$14.99 USD

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time.In the foggy streets of London, two men – one a respectable doctor and one a depraved killer –
... Read more
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Semiotics

The Basics

by Daniel Chandler ...

Narrated by Ric Jerrom ...

Unabridged

14 hours 45 min

This third edition of the bestselling textbook has been fully revised, continuing to provide a concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language. Demystifying what is a complex, highly interdisciplinary field, key questions covered include: What are signs and codes? What can semiotics teach us about representation and reality? What tools does it offer for ... Read more

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This third edition of the bestselling textbook has been fully revised, continuing to provide a concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language. Demystifying what is a complex, highly interdisciplinary field, key questions covered include: What are signs and codes? What can semiotics teach us about representation and reality? What tools does it offer for
... Read more
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Sons and Lovers

by D.H. Lawrence ...

Narrated by Sir Ian McKellen ...

Series series Argo Classics
Abridged

3 hours 1 min

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time.Provocative and sensual, this is the story of one man torn between the love for his mother and his ... Read more

$16.99 USD

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time.Provocative and sensual, this is the story of one man torn between the love for his mother and his
... Read more
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Lipstick

Object Lessons

by Eileen G'Sell ...

Narrated by Deborah McBride ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

3 hours 17 min

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.From Revlon to Glossier, from Marilyn to Gaga, lipstick is as shape-shifting and unwieldy as femininity itself.Who wears lipstick today – as a matter of routine? And for those who do, is it out of obligation to a strict feminine standard, or some other reason entirely? Lipstick reconsiders the ... Read more

$22.99 USD

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.From Revlon to Glossier, from Marilyn to Gaga, lipstick is as shape-shifting and unwieldy as femininity itself.Who wears lipstick today – as a matter of routine? And for those who do, is it out of obligation to a strict feminine standard, or some other reason entirely? Lipstick reconsiders the
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Silence

Object Lessons

by John Biguenet ...

Narrated by Adam Sims ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

2 hours 40 min

Bloomsbury presents Silence by John Biguenet, read by Adam Sims.Object Lessons is a series of short books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.What is silence? In a series of short meditations, novelist and playwright John Biguenet considers silence as a servant of power, as a lie, as a punishment, as the voice of God, as a terrorist’s final weapon, as a luxury good, as the reason for torture ... Read more

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Bloomsbury presents Silence by John Biguenet, read by Adam Sims.Object Lessons is a series of short books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.What is silence? In a series of short meditations, novelist and playwright John Biguenet considers silence as a servant of power, as a lie, as a punishment, as the voice of God, as a terrorist’s final weapon, as a luxury good, as the reason for torture
... Read more
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Wallpaper

by Dr. or Prof. Marc Olivier ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

3 hours

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.We live with wallpaper not only indoors, but also in art, cinema, fashion, video games, and in our desktops and smart phones. A papered wall can represent a kind of unrelenting screen time, an inescapable ambience that plays on our minds. Paper, plastic, or pixels, wallpaper always exceeds the ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.We live with wallpaper not only indoors, but also in art, cinema, fashion, video games, and in our desktops and smart phones. A papered wall can represent a kind of unrelenting screen time, an inescapable ambience that plays on our minds. Paper, plastic, or pixels, wallpaper always exceeds the
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讲故事的艺术：为什么有些故事早已结束，却仍让我们念念不忘

by 张云妍 ...

Narrated by 张云妍 ...

Unabridged

2 hours 17 min

抛弃僵化的速成话术与干瘪模板，真正的高阶叙事技巧是精准唤醒深层的情感共鸣，让你的表达在他人记忆里生根发芽。当你在喧嚣日常中感到倾诉无门，或是遗憾于无法准确传递内心的波澜时，这段充满疗愈感的声音之旅将带你找回语言的温度。我们铭记的往往不是干硬的情节，而是一种难以磨灭的灵魂震颤。剖析那些久久不散的动人桥段，你会发现每一次被打动，其实都暗藏着与自身经历和隐秘渴望的深度连接。这不是一堂枯燥的理论课，而是一场伴随通勤或静夜的自我觉醒，用鲜活的日常案例带你拆解欲望、冲突与留白的艺术。你将在本书中发现：透过纯粹的听者视角，精准识别并塑造那种超越情节本身、直击人心的情绪余味。拆解人物欲望、关键选择与核心冲突，用最贴近生活的微型演练打破日常表达瓶颈。掌握高级的叙事时间感与节奏把控，学会用巧妙的转折将听众从思维惯性中拉出。领悟“留白”的强大后劲，让未尽的结局在听者的想象中持续生长，引发经久不息的回响 ... Read more

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抛弃僵化的速成话术与干瘪模板，真正的高阶叙事技巧是精准唤醒深层的情感共鸣，让你的表达在他人记忆里生根发芽。当你在喧嚣日常中感到倾诉无门，或是遗憾于无法准确传递内心的波澜时，这段充满疗愈感的声音之旅将带你找回语言的温度。我们铭记的往往不是干硬的情节，而是一种难以磨灭的灵魂震颤。剖析那些久久不散的动人桥段，你会发现每一次被打动，其实都暗藏着与自身经历和隐秘渴望的深度连接。这不是一堂枯燥的理论课，而是一场伴随通勤或静夜的自我觉醒，用鲜活的日常案例带你拆解欲望、冲突与留白的艺术。你将在本书中发现：透过纯粹的听者视角，精准识别并塑造那种超越情节本身、直击人心的情绪余味。拆解人物欲望、关键选择与核心冲突，用最贴近生活的微型演练打破日常表达瓶颈。掌握高级的叙事时间感与节奏把控，学会用巧妙的转折将听众从思维惯性中拉出。领悟“留白”的强大后劲，让未尽的结局在听者的想象中持续生长，引发经久不息的回响
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Literary Gold: Transformative Insights from Russian Masters

te your journey through profound Russian insights and masterful literary revelationsnot SetEleva

by Quinlan Blackthorn ...

Narrated by Nick Porter ...

Unabridged

2 hours 4 min

Literary Gold: Transformative Insights from Russian MastersAre you eager to elevate your understanding and deepen your appreciation of literature through the illuminating works of Russian masters?In search of a comprehensive resource that encapsulates the essential elements to uncover profound truths through timeless literary masterpieces?Your quest ends here! This guide is your ultimate com... ... Read more

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Literary Gold: Transformative Insights from Russian MastersAre you eager to elevate your understanding and deepen your appreciation of literature through the illuminating works of Russian masters?In search of a comprehensive resource that encapsulates the essential elements to uncover profound truths through timeless literary masterpieces?Your quest ends here! This guide is your ultimate com...
... Read more
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Driver's License

Object Lessons

by Meredith Castile ...

Narrated by Barbara Barnes ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

4 hours 33 min

Bloomsbury presents…Driver’s Licenceby Meredith Castileread by Barbara BarnesObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.A classic teenage fetish object, the American driver’s license has long symbolized freedom and mobility in a nation whose design assumes car travel and whose vastness rivals continents. It is youth’s pass to regulated ... Read more

$22.99 USD

Bloomsbury presents…Driver’s Licenceby Meredith Castileread by Barbara BarnesObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.A classic teenage fetish object, the American driver’s license has long symbolized freedom and mobility in a nation whose design assumes car travel and whose vastness rivals continents. It is youth’s pass to regulated
... Read more
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Rock of Pages

The Literary Tradition of 1980s Heavy Metal

by Jesse Kavadlo ...

Narrated by Christopher Ragland ...

Unabridged

12 hours 12 min

Bloomsbury presents Rock of Pages by Jesse Kavadlo, read by Christopher Ragland.Rock of Pages provides contexts and close readings of 1980s heavy metal with forty years of hindsight, drawing upon analytical frameworks usually associated with literature and literary studies.Based on decades of work as a professor of literature and as a musician, Jesse Kavadlo analyzes the ways in which 1980s heavy ... Read more

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Bloomsbury presents Rock of Pages by Jesse Kavadlo, read by Christopher Ragland.Rock of Pages provides contexts and close readings of 1980s heavy metal with forty years of hindsight, drawing upon analytical frameworks usually associated with literature and literary studies.Based on decades of work as a professor of literature and as a musician, Jesse Kavadlo analyzes the ways in which 1980s heavy
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The Gutenberg Parenthesis

The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet

by Prof Jeff Jarvis ...

Narrated by Prof Jeff Jarvis ...

Unabridged

13 hours 7 min

Bloomsbury presents The Gutenberg Parenthesis written and read by Jeff Jarvis.PROSE AWARDS MEDIA ADN CULTURAL STUDIES FINALIST 2024The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present – and draws out lessons for the age to come.The age of print is a grand exception in history. For five centuries it fostered what some call print culture – a ... Read more

$30.99 USD

Bloomsbury presents The Gutenberg Parenthesis written and read by Jeff Jarvis.PROSE AWARDS MEDIA ADN CULTURAL STUDIES FINALIST 2024The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present – and draws out lessons for the age to come.The age of print is a grand exception in history. For five centuries it fostered what some call print culture – a
... Read more
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In Service of the Republic

by Amit Varma ...

Narrated by Amit Varma ...

Series Audiobook 4 - The Book Club with Amit Varma
Unabridged

14 min

Economic policy sounds boring – but it affects all our lives. In episode 4 of The Book Club, Amit Varma raves about 'In Service of the Republic', a masterful book by Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah that distills decades of experience of shaping public policy. In their book, Kelkar and Shah write not about how to make policy, but about how to think about policy, in clear lucid prose that makes its ... Read more

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Economic policy sounds boring – but it affects all our lives. In episode 4 of The Book Club, Amit Varma raves about 'In Service of the Republic', a masterful book by Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah that distills decades of experience of shaping public policy. In their book, Kelkar and Shah write not about how to make policy, but about how to think about policy, in clear lucid prose that makes its
... Read more
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The Mayflower and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Essays on History, Faith, and Social Thought

by Harriet Beecher Stowe ...

Unabridged

12 hours 39 min

This audiobook collection includes historical reflection and social essays by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Exploring faith, moral responsibility, and American identity, it offers insight into nineteenth-century thought and reform. ... Read more

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This audiobook collection includes historical reflection and social essays by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Exploring faith, moral responsibility, and American identity, it offers insight into nineteenth-century thought and reform.
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Microphone

by Ralph Jones ...

Narrated by Christopher Naylor ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

2 hours 36 min

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Since its invention more than 150 years ago, the microphone transformed the world in an instant. Yet its evolution and integration into our daily lives has been comparatively gradual – so gradual, crucially, that it is easy to forget just how much we take it for granted. Every phone has a ... Read more

$22.99 USD

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Since its invention more than 150 years ago, the microphone transformed the world in an instant. Yet its evolution and integration into our daily lives has been comparatively gradual – so gradual, crucially, that it is easy to forget just how much we take it for granted. Every phone has a
... Read more
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

by Susan Sontag ...

Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

Unabridged

4 hours 38 min

In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of its time.” A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the ... Read more

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In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of its time.” A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the
... Read more
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The Romantic Manifesto

A Philosophy of Literature

by Ayn Rand ...

Narrated by Bernadette Dunne ...

Unabridged

7 hours 22 min

In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned collection of essays, Ayn Rand throws new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again, Rand demonstrates her bold originality and her refusal to let popular catchphrases and conventional ideas define her sense of the truth.In her ethics AynRand extolled the virtue of selfishness—and in her theory of art she was no less ... Read more

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In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned collection of essays, Ayn Rand throws new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again, Rand demonstrates her bold originality and her refusal to let popular catchphrases and conventional ideas define her sense of the truth.In her ethics AynRand extolled the virtue of selfishness—and in her theory of art she was no less
... Read more
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Shipping Container

Object Lessons

by Dr. Craig Martin ...

Narrated by Matthew Biddulph ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

2 hours 47 min

Bloomsbury presents…Shipping Containerby Craig Martinread by Matthew BiddulphObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight…. 90% of the goods and ... Read more

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Bloomsbury presents…Shipping Containerby Craig Martinread by Matthew BiddulphObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight…. 90% of the goods and
... Read more
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Snark

by Amit Varma ...

Narrated by Amit Varma ...

Series Audiobook 7 - The Book Club with Amit Varma
Unabridged

12 min

Public discourse has become toxic, and there is no better illustration of this than snark. We don't talk to people any more, we mock. We don't engage any more, we ridicule. In episode 7 of The Book Club, Amit Varma speaks about 'Snark', David Denby's prescient book about the degeneration of our conversations. ... Read more

$3.99 USD

Public discourse has become toxic, and there is no better illustration of this than snark. We don't talk to people any more, we mock. We don't engage any more, we ridicule. In episode 7 of The Book Club, Amit Varma speaks about 'Snark', David Denby's prescient book about the degeneration of our conversations.
... Read more

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