New Releases by Mary McCarthy

. Un noi texà i el seu amic d''infantesa decideixen emprendre un viatge pel territori desert del nord de Mèxic a la recerca de l''essència de la vida vaquera. Aquest viatge, que d''entrada es planteja com una descoberta geogràfica, serà un viatge iniciàtic que els enfrontarà amb passions i conflictes com el desarrelament, la violència, els desenganys, la mort o la recerca d''un ideal i una identitat.

La correspondance entre Hannah Arendt et Mary McCarthy offre un modèle d''amitié exemplaire entre deux femmes exceptionnelles. Pourtant, leur rencontre était a priori improbable. Née en Allemagne en 1906, l''une était juive, réfugiée aux Etats-Unis en 1940 après avoir fui l''Europe sept ans plus tôt et vivait à New York une vie d''intellectuelle déracinée. L''autre était née à Seattle en 1912 dans une famille catholique et s''était installée dans cette ville en 1936, bien décidée à y faire une carrière de critique et d''écrivain. Entre elles, on va découvrir un dialogue profond dans lequel la romancière s''ouvre aux problèmes de la pensée, tandis que la philosophe se montre passionnée de littérature. Elles partagent leurs enthousiasmes et s''avouent leurs angoisses, parlent beaucoup des amis et médisent des adversaires, se racontent des voyages et des livres, commentent les événements politiques et se protègent mutuellement dans les controverses, comme celle suscitée par le livre d''Arendt sur Eichmann. Pour comprendre cet échange, il faut remonter loin. Dans le New York des années 1930, là où Mary McCarthy s''était initiée à la politique parmi les " boys " de Partisan Review, staliniens, puis trotskistes avant guerre, anti-communistes ensuite le milieu dans lequel elle rencontre Hannah Arendt, au moment où celle-ci publie Les Origines du totalitarisme. L''introduction de Pierre Bouretz raconte cette histoire, met en scène les personnages qui traversent la correspondance et dessine le portrait d''un groupe dans lequel règne la passion des choses intellectuelles, littéraires et politiques.

Open your eyes. Open your mind. Open your imagination. Look! What do you see? Mary McCarthy''s beautiful handmade-paper collages will transport young children on a journey of discovery.

This book provides a coherent, comprehensive introduction to urban geography. It offers a historical and process-oriented approach with a North American focus that also provides a global context and comparative international perspective. From a global perspective, the authors examine urban trends and their outcomes in both the developed and the less developed countries in order to understand, analyze, and interpret the landscapes, economies, and communities of towns and cities around the world.

This is the author''s first novel, which relates the experiences of a young bohemian intellectual. The six episodes create a fascinating portrait of a New York social circle of the 1930s. McCarthy''s bold insight and virtuoso style won her immediate recognition as one of the most accomplished, versatile, and penetrating writers in americanca.

"Mary McCarthy may be best remembered today for her novels and memoirs, but she was also a dazzling and prolific essayist and critic, known for her witty and fearless commentary on topics ranging from American realist playwrights to women''s fashion magazines, from left-wing politics to the nineteenth-century novel." "This collection, which spans her career from the 1930s to the 1970s, displays McCarthy''s acute judgment and stylistic brio. It begins with a generous selection of her drama reviews, and includes essays on Nabokov, Burroughs, Salinger, Flaubert, Calvino, Sarraute, and Tolstoy. In the essays that follow, she dissects the social and political controversies that dominated midcentury American intellectual life, from the Moscow trials to the Vietnam War and the Watergate hearings."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Writer, Mary McCarthy, and philosopher, Hannah Arendt, first met in New York. Engrossing and entertaining, these letters give a fresh and intimate view of the long and unique friendship between these two eminent intellectuals of the 20th century.

During the Watergate hearings, Mary McCarthy, on commission from The Observer of London, wrote six reports from Washington telling the amazing story of deceit and arrogance in the Nixon administration. She wrote two others for The New York Review of Books, including one that summarizes her view of this terrible American travesty. The reports have been greatly revised and amplified for this book. Here the reader is once again reminded, by sharply drawn portraits, of the characters of Watergate. Here is "sloping-headed, slope-shouldered" Mitchell, who "brought evil into the Caucus Room, and this was not unconnected with the boredom he was able to generate." And "the Keystone comedy cop Tony Ulasewicz"; and Senator Baker, whose "insistent questions about motive suggest that he is playing a TV role of spiritual surgeon and counselor." Maureen ("Mo") Dean appears on the sidelines "in a daily change of costume (sometimes color-harmonizing with her husband)," looking like "a bride who would want fresh jewelry for her honeymoon." Mary McCarthy''s skills as a reporter, her capacity for conveying moral insights, and her great personal style make this book a singular account of an unforgettable--and almost unbearable--time in the history of the republic.--Jacket.

Writer Mary McCarthy''s report on the court-martial and acquittal of Captain Ernest L. Medina, U.S. Army, for his actions as commander of the troops involved in the notorious massacre at My Lai.

A penetrating work of reportage on Venice. "Searching observations and astonishing comprehension of the Venetian taste and character" (New York Herald Tribune).