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![]() Why This WorldA Biography of Clarice Lispector$29.95 ![]() “That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf,” Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular
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from her adolescence. Why This World tells how this precocious girl, through long exile abroad and difficult personal struggles, matured into a great writer,
and asserts, for the first time, the deep roots in the Jewish mystical tradition that make her both the heir to Kafka and
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Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper’s Magazine
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In recent years, Harper’s has fostered an exciting brand of journalism that is participatory, sometimes even undercover in approach. Submersion Journalism collects the best of these dispatches in the radical first person.
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How Washington Lobbyists fought to flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship
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Ken Silverstein, Washington Editor of Harper's Magazine, goes undercover to find out the truth about how influence is bought and sold in Washington—even to corrupt foreign regimes.
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A Biography of Clarice Lispector
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Why This World shows how Clarice Lispector transformed one woman’s struggles into a universally resonant art. Hardcover.
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How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture
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Equal parts report, memoir, manifesto, and deconstruction of a decade, And Then There’s This captures better than any other book the way technology is changing our culture.
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Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper’s Magazine
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In recent years, Harper’s has fostered an exciting brand of journalism that is participatory, sometimes even undercover in approach. Submersion Journalism collects the best of these dispatches in the radical first person.
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Straight facts with no chaser. Bracing, jaw-dropping, and hilarious.
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Reflections on the Family from Harper's Magazine
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The American family examined unflinchingly by some of Harper's finest writers.
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The revealing, true story of a journey down the corporate ladder.
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A Modern Day Walk Down the Pilgrims Route Into Spain
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The striking narrative of a life haunted by illness.
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150 years of Harper's America, in a single richly illustrated volume.
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Observations from a journey across America.
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The Travel Essays of an Expatriate American
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With wit and insight Stevenson describes his travels around Europe and his impressions of visiting the U.S.
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Harper's Magazine Weekly Review author Paul Ford's first novel.
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