Primære faneblade

  • Bjarne Nielsen Brovst: Danske udkanter
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    Danske udkanter

  • Bjarne Nielsen Brovst: Fra Vedersø til Tórshavn : kronikker og essays

  • Joan Didion: Slæber sig mod Betlehem : essays
    Af Joan Didion (2018)

  • Knud Wentzel: Rundt om Annapurna
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    Rundt om Annapurna

    Af Knud Wentzel (2018)

  • Daniel Dencik: Sportshjerte
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    Sportshjerte

    Af Daniel Dencik (2018)

  • Bjarne Nielsen Brovst: Rejser og portrætter : kronikker og essays

  • Grete Roulund: Krydstogt på Peblingesøen og andre essays
    Af Grete Roulund (2018)

  • Flemming Madsen (f. 1912): Kontrakten
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    Kontrakten

  • Bjarne Nielsen Brovst: Fra Himmerland til Færøerne : rejsekrøniker

  • Summary: This program has been updated with a new epilogue written and read by the author. A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections The essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like "a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run straight into them." For the past twenty-five years, even as his novels have earned him worldwide acclaim, Franzen has led a second life as a risk-taking essayist. Now, at a moment when technology has inflamed tribal hatreds and the planet is beset by unnatural calamities, he is back with a new collection of essays that recall us to more humane ways of being in the world. Franzen's great loves are literature and birds, and The End of the End of the Earth is a passionate argument for both. Where the new media tend to confirm one's prejudices, he writes, literature "invites you to ask whether you might be somewhat wrong, maybe even entirely wrong, and to imagine why someone else might hate you." Whatever his subject, Franzen's essays are always skeptical of received opinion, steeped in irony, and frank about his own failings. He's frank about birds, too (they kill "everything imaginable"), but his reporting and reflections on them—on seabirds in New Zealand, warblers in East Africa, penguins in Antarctica—are both a moving celebration of their beauty and resilience and a call to action to save what we love. Calm, poignant, carefully argued, full of wit, The End of the End of the Earth provides a welcome breath of hope and reason

  • Roy Scranton: We're Doomed. Now What? : Essays on War and Climate Change
    Af Roy Scranton (2018)
    Summary: The time we've been thrown into is one of alarming and bewildering change-the breakup of the post-1945 global order, a multispecies mass extinction, and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it. Not one of us is innocent, not one of us is safe. Now what? We're Doomed, Now What? addresses the crisis that is our time through a series of brilliant, moving, and original essays on climate change, war, literature, and loss, from one of the most provocative and iconoclastic minds of his generation. Whether writing about sailing through the melting Arctic, preparing for Houston's next big storm, watching

  • D. L. Hughley: How Not to Get Shot : And Other Advice From White People
    Af D. L. Hughley (2018)
    Summary: A cutting satire of race relations in the age of Trump and Black Lives Matter from the hugely popular comedian—one of ""The Original Kings of Comedy""—and author of the New York Times bestseller Black Man, White House. ""White people are always giving out 'helpful' advice, such as: 'Comply with the police and you won't get shot.' They've been doling out advice to black people ever since 'I suggest you pick the cotton if you don't like getting whipped.' Not getting shot by the police has long been a problem for black people. Even when we had a black president! Now that we have a new set of overlords, with President Trump at the head, wouldn't it be nice to get a little advice on how not to get shot?"" From the elections of Barack Obama and Donald Trump to the tragic events of Ferguson and Charlottesville, the subject of race has come to the forefront of American consciousness. Legendary satirist D. L. Hughley offers his own cutting observations on this contentious issue that continues to traumatize the nation, a wound made more painful by the ongoing comments and actions of the 45th president. Hughley uses humor to draw attention to injustice, sardonically offering advice on a number of lessons, from ""How to make cops feel more comfortable while they're handcuffing you"" and ""The right way to wear a hoodie"" to ""How to make white food, like lobster rolls"" and ""Ten types of white people you meet in the suburbs."" How Not to Get Shot is a much-needed antidote in these distressing times