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2025

2025 CE.


2025 is the publication year for the editions below.

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On Photography

Susan Sontag
Contemporary American Essay Non-Fiction

On Photography

Hers is one of those names that is constantly mentioned — especially if you read literary essays or are generally interested in the New York City art scene in the 1970s through the 1990s.

July 21, 2025July 20, 2025 by S. Hargrave — Comment on On Photography

Airless Spaces

Shulamith Firestone
Contemporary American-Canadian Literature Short Story

Airless Spaces

Sometimes books constructed out of vignettes seem to be built on a faulty foundation and have frames that are not enough to withstand the weight of a message or a book. Firestone here has used the flexibility of very short vignettes to construct just what her title implies — an airless space.

May 26, 2025May 25, 2025 by S. Hargrave — Comment on Airless Spaces

Voices of the Fallen Heroes

Yukio Mishima
20th Century Japanese Literature Short Story

Voices of the Fallen Heroes

When you read these stories, it’s easy to start looking for threads of his eventual fate or at least the mental state that led to it. Are they there? Yes, but they are subtle.

May 12, 2025May 13, 2025 by S. Hargrave — Comment on Voices of the Fallen Heroes
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