The Catastrophe Hour: Selected EssaysFrom the New York Timesbestselling author of The Unspeakable and The Problem with Everything comes a new collection of unputdownable essays. For the last five or six years, on many afternoons around 4 or 5 p. m., Ive been overcome with the sensation that my life is effectively over. Note the personal touch here. This is not a sensation of the world ending, which has been in vogue for quite some time now, and maybe for good reason. Its a distinct

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A compelling personal introduction to the life and work of Nobel Prize–winning writer Czesław Miłosz from his fellow Polish exile and acclaimed writer Eva Hoffman

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

as she wrote to a friend

But The Power Broker is first and foremost a brilliant multidimensional portrait of a man—an extraordinary man who

A scathing

As well as in good governance and transparency

whiteness and its weapons

each made of salvaged language and scraps of the material world―pages torn from books

boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty

fate intervenes

Passersby are left to imagine who the author might be