Stephen Marche - Free Library Land Online - Nonfiction

Raymond and Hannah

Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:34:03 +0200

From a new Canadian talent who will sweep you off your feet, a love story about a man and a woman irresistibly drawn to each other despite the impediments of geography and culture.

Meeting as strangers at a party, Raymond and Hannah stumble into a one-night stand with unexpected consequences. Together, they share a single, magical week before Hannah leaves for Jerusalem, where she is to spend nine months at an orthodox yeshiva learning Torah among students who disapprove of intermarriage. Raymond, a graduate student researching love in Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, struggles with his loneliness and Hannah's increasing religiosity.

As their separation comes to an end, Hannah questions whether she can live with a man who is not of her people, and Raymond's hunger for human intimacy reaches a crisis point. He cheats on her; she begins to practice the Commandments. Still, neither can tolerate the other's absence. Unable to make a clean break, they're forced...

The Unmade Bed

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:40:48 +0200

A candid work of nonfiction from provocative Esquire columnist Stephen Marche—with interjections from his wife, writer Sarah Fulford—exploring the complicated, changing relationship between men and women in today's society.
We are in the middle of a revolution of everyday life, one that can be found everywhere that men and women coexist. In the office. In families. In houses. On the street. Online. In bed. As we encounter each of these situations, we ask ourselves: Who has the power? How much can we say? What are we expected to sacrifice? Is it possible to be equal? The conversation about the relationship between men and women—both in our individual lives and as a society—has never been louder.

Now, with a refreshing and honest voice, Stephen Marche delivers his vision for what true equality between men and women really means and what it could look like. As he does, he discovers not only commonalities, but contradictions, and that for the...

Hunger of the Wolf

Sun, 22 Nov 2015 22:16:55 +0200