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Bartleby, the scrivener by Herman Melville (The art of the novella)

"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, …

Bluescreen by Mark Greif

Propaganda by Mark Crispin Miller, Edward L. Bernays

“Bernays’ honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and influential institutions of contemporary industrial …

Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Oxford World's Classics)

Red Plenty by Francis Spufford

A novel about mathematically-driven collectivist economic planning vs soviet politics sounds deadly, but people fooling themselves are always entertaining.

Der blonde Eckbert ; der Runenberg ; die Elfen by Ludwig Tieck (Universal-Bibliothek -- nr. 7732.)

White Noise by Don DeLillo

White Noise is the eighth novel by Don DeLillo, published by Viking Press in 1985. It won the U.S. National …

Half-real by Jesper Juul

A video game is half-real: we play by real rules while imagining a fictional world. We win or lose the …

Lord of the Barnyard by Tristan Egolf

Müdigkeitsgesellschaft by Byung-Chul Han

Eating animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink …

Mythologies by Roland Barthes

Der Tod des Iwan Iljitsch by Leo Tolstoy

The Death of Ivan Ilyich (also Romanized Ilich, Ilych, Ilyitch; Russian: Смерть Ивана Ильича, romanized: Smert' Ivána Ilyicha), first published …

Das Blütenstaubzimmer by Zoë Jenny

Dekonspiratione: Erz ahlung by Rainald Goetz (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch -- 3377)