I Found Myself: Last DreamsI Found Myself: Last Dreams confirms again the richness and variety of Mahfouz's storytelling"the single most important writer in modern Arabic literature" (Newsweek) I found myself in our old house in El Abbassiya, visiting my mother. She received me with perplexing indifference and then left the room. I assumed shed gone to make coffee, but she never returned. [Dream 216] In his final years, the Egyptian master storyteller and Nobel Laureate Naguib

and ultimately profound guide to time and time management

[Poetry’s] greatest flowering was in the T’ang and Sung

redemptive

This book is the result of a research project begun by the author in 1958 with the aim of answering two questions:

An "introduction to the nonfascist life" (Michel Foucault

a comforting beverage and book-loving friends

Solnit offers a reappraisal of the value of indirect consequences

meticulous planning

Not since the end of the Cold War has there been so much pessimism in the West and uncertainty about the future of the world

Whether we are searching for meaning in an abstract painting or deciphering poetry

when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now … to other ways of being

this book is a rare phenomenon