David Rieff is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of several books, including the acclaimed At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention; A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis; Slaughterhouse Bosnia and the Failure of the West; and a memoir of the last year of the life of his mother Susan Sontag, Swimming in a Sea of Death.
15 Ebooks de David Rieff
David Rieff: The Reproach of Hunger
In 2000 the world’s leaders and experts agreed that the eradication of hunger was the essential task for the new millennium. Yet in the last decade the price of wheat, soya and rice have spiraled, se …
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Rieff David Rieff: In Praise of Forgetting
A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's wounds The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana’s celebrated phra …
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David Rieff: Bed for the Night
Timely and controversial, A Bed for the Night reveals how humanitarian organizations trying to bring relief in an ever more violent and dangerous world are often betrayed and misused, and have increa …
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David Rieff: Los Angeles
David Rieff looks at a city that was long the epitome of the American Dream and is now, for many, the emblem of the American urban nightmare.Writing before the riots of 1992, Rieff found not a city o …
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David Rieff: Reproach of Hunger
Hailed as invaluablea substantial work of political thought, (New Statesman) in a groundbreaking report, based on years of reporting, David Rieff assesses whether ending extreme poverty and widesprea …
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David Rieff: At the Point of a Gun
Veteran journalist David Rieff’s essays draw a searing portrait of what happens when the grandiose schemes of policymakers and human rights activists go horribly wrong in the field.Writing for public …
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David Rieff: Bed for the Night
Timely and controversial, A Bed for the Night reveals how humanitarian organizations trying to bring relief in an ever more violent and dangerous world are often betrayed and misused, and have increa …
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€12.99
David Rieff: Swimming In A Sea Of Death
In spring 2004, Susan Sontag was diagnosed with the incurable blood cancer. She had a huge appetite for experience, and a wild, extravagant desire to live. Rieff writes movingly about being by her si …
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David Rieff: Elogio dell’oblio
Prefazione di Marta Boneschi Si dice spesso come la memoria storica sia tra i beni più preziosi a disposizione degli uomini che, grazie ad essa, possono non solo tramandare usanze e costumi ma …
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Susan Sontag: At the Same Time
‘These sixteen pieces brim over with vitality . . . every one of them opening up fresh lines of thought’ John Gray, New Statesman At the Same Time contains sixteen illuminating essays by Susan Sontag …
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David Rieff: Swimming in a Sea of Death
Both a memoir and an investigation, Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff’s loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. Rieff’s brave, passionate, and …
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Susan Sontag: Über Frauen
Die intellektuelle Ikone Susan Sontag über Gleichheit, weibliches Altern, Schönheit und Sexualität – „Eine brillante, schillernde Intelligenz“ (The Times) Was bedeutet es, eine Frau zu sein? Der neue …
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David Rieff: Slaughterhouse
In a shocking and deeply disturbing tour de force, David Rieff, reporting from the Bosnia war zone and from Western capitals and United Nations headquarters, indicts the West and the United Nations f …
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