McCall Smith, Alexander: The Full Cupboard of Life
‘You are right,’ she said. ‘I am a
very engaged lady. I have been waiting for a long time. But you cannot push men
around. They...
Alexander McCall Smith: The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
I said to him that Zululand sounded
fine, but that every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the
heart...
Andy Fletcher: A Dimdim in Paradise
„I went to Papua New Guinea with Mining giant
Conzinc Rio Tinto in 1970 to work for a year in their Bougainville Mine, and
fell hopelessly...
McCall Smith, Alexander: In The Company Of Cheerful Ladies
‘We are all human,’ she would say. ‘Men particularly. You must not be ashamed.’
McCall Smith, Alexander: Blue Shoes and Happiness
‘ Ever since women allowed men to think that they did not need to get married, everything has gone wrong. That is what...
Weidensaul, Scott: A World on the Wing
Researchers have found that in advance of their flights, migrant birds can bulk up with new muscle mass without really exercising, something humans would...
McGuire, Bill: Hothouse Earth
What I mean by hothouse Earth, then, is not an ice-free planet, but a world in which lethal heatwaves and temperatures in excess of...
Smith, Will: Will
Are you paying attention to the wall? Or are you paying attention to the brick? Whether it was acing the tests to get accepted...
Conover, Ted: Cheap Land Colorado
The local expert on cold-calling is Matt Little, charged by the social service group La Puente with “rural outreach.” Matt has let me ride...
Engebrigtsen, Ada I.: Exploring Gypsiness
The Roma did not understand our problem. ‘Just say that your car has broken down, say you have no petrol, just lie’ was their...
Friedman, Thomas L.: From Beirut to Jerusalem
But in order to make that state economically viable, the Maronites appealed to France to include in it not only their traditional Mt. Lebanon...
Al Aswany, Alaa: The Yacoubian Building
Then he would bring his speech to an end by cursing Abd el Nasser, who had introduced free education, or quote as authority the...
Yong, Ed: An Immense World
Philosophers have long pitied the goldfish in its bowl, unaware of what lies beyond, but our senses create a bowl around us too—one that...
Lamott, Anne: Bird by Bird
In seventh and eighth grades I still weighed about forty pounds. I was twelve years old and had been getting teased about my strange...
Kolbert, Elizabeth: The Sixth Extinction
If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment...
Best Remembered Poems
Francis William Bourdillon
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
The night has a thousand eyes,And the day but one;Yet the light of the bright world diesWith...