Paul Willis

Hay un recurrente mito neoliberal que arguye que todo individuo puede llegar a ser lo que se proponga; que querer es poder; que, en este mundo laboral de oportunidades infinitas, ser un triunfador está en las manos de cada uno, independientemente de cuáles sean sus orígenes. Pero, ¿es de verdad esto así? Este brillante y esclarecedor libro muestra cómo operaban los elementos coercitivos sociales y culturales sobre la juventud de la clase obrera...

"Love took the words right out of my mouth." So begins the first line of Christopher Jane Corkery's poignant and unforgettable new collection of poems. Throughout the work these two themes-the power and mystery of language, especially the crafted one of poetry, and what Keats called "the holiness of the heart's affections"-intertwine, accumulating a rich panoply of associations and meanings. The occasions for Corkery's poems are often domestic: the...

Entangled Objects is a contemporary pilgrim's progress, the story of three very different yet interconnected women. As the story advances, their overlapping lives reveal the mysterious entanglement of quantum behavior. Fan is a struggling adjunct professor. When she and her husband move to Korea so he can investigate the cloning of human cells, she finds herself having an affair, even as her husband gets caught trying to publish falsified research. Filomena...

Thirteen-year-old Erica Pickins does not want to play the piano--and she definitely does not want to go to England. But her father must take family and students for a fall semester abroad, and her mother insists she still practice, every day. In England, their new home becomes Hengrave Hall, a sixteenth-century manor house presided over by a group of nuns. While exploring with her new friend Pedro, Erica walks through a chamber door...into the Year...

In Hotly in Pursuit of the Real, the beloved bestselling novelist Ron Hansen opens the doors of his writing studio to share with us his passions for history, scandal, theology, Jesuits, the American West, and golf (which he plays even in bad weather). If Hansen's novels explore people very different from himself-from a stigmatic nun to a Victorian poet to Billy the Kid, and even Hitler's niece-the meditations in this book do the opposite, allowing...

Dunstan Thompson was an American poet of great promise who burst onto the Anglo-American literary scene during World War II. In the words of one contemporary, Thompson was one of the rising "stars of modern poetry," a writer who might one day join the pantheon of poets like Hart Crane, W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and Dylan Thomas. And yet Thompson more or less disappeared from public view by the early 1950s. After publishing two volumes of poetry,...

British journalist Robert Lovelace travels to California to report on the social media giant Global Village. He's horrified by what he finds: a company-guided by the ruthless vision of its founder, Evan Bone-that seems to be making journalism itself redundant. Appalled, he decides to abandon the project and return home. But as he leaves he has a disconcerting encounter that sends him off in a totally different direction. Soon he finds himself embarked...

In the fall of 2014, educators Eric and Rixa Freeze moved with their young family to Old Nice, a medieval town-within-a-city on the famed Cote d'Azur. They'd bought a 700-square-foot dive, an apartment in need of renovation just a couple blocks from the Mediterranean. They were a family with a plan: to live differently. No home in the suburbs with a two-car garage, no bedroom for every child, no 24-hour Walmart. Carefully researched and vividly written,...

Paul E. Willis, an ethnographer and cultural theorist, is a lecturer with the rank of professor in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. He is a founding editor and current joint editor of the journal Ethnography and the author of Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs, among other books. A classic of British cultural studies, Profane Culture takes the reader into the worlds of two important 1960s youth cultures-the...

Career con artists discover a child abuse ring run by a sociopathic investment banker for VIP celebrity clients, and they attempt to pull off a payday so big they can finally retire.