The 2000 Lightman, Alan P. 1948- Atwan, Robert. text bibliography mau Boston, MA Houghton Mifflin 2000 monographic eng

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xviii, 233 p. ; 22 cm. Foreword / Robert Atwan -- Introduction / Alan Lightman -- The last time I saw Paris / Andrâe Aciman -- In distrust of movements / Wendell Berry -- The joys and perils of victimhood / Ian Buruma -- A son in shadow / Fred D'Aguiar -- Westbury court / Edwidge Danticat -- In defense of the book / William H. Gass -- Rome : the visible city / Mary Gordon -- Earth's eye / Edward Hoagland -- Those words that echo ... echo ... echo ... through life / Jamaica Kincaid -- If you are what you eat, then what am I? / Geeta Kothari -- The resurrectionist / Richard McCann -- The synthetic sublime / Cynthia Ozick -- The force of spirit / Scott Russell Sanders -- At a certain age / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- The Singer solution to world poverty / Peter Singer -- Gray area : thinking with a damaged brain / Floyd Skloot -- Listening for silence / Mark Slouka -- Heroin/e / Cheryl Strayed -- What's so bad about hate? / Andrew Sullivan -- A designer universe? / Steven Weinberg -- A shark in the mind of one contemplating wilderness / Terry Tempest Williams -- Biographical notes -- Notable essays of 1999. edited and with an introduction by Alan Lightman ; Robert Atwan, series editor. Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233). American essays 20th century Ensayos americanos Siglo XX PS 688 B561 2000 814.08 0618035788 (hc) : 9780618035786 (hc) 061803580X (pbk.) 9780618035809 (pbk.) JED 001019 20230410132701.0 86027