Bøker av Jeffrey Lewis

A man who shares his name with a famous singer must grapple with his identity, purpose, and love. The Leonard Cohen at the center of Leonard Cohen: A Novel is an everyman, a would-be artist, a would-be lover, a would-be tragic figure, yet a man haunted by the greatness of his namesake. He struggles to compete. He struggles to be more than a punchline in his own mind. He struggles, in particular, to write one song as great as the least of the great Leonard Cohen's songs. At the center of Leonard's life is Daphne. In their meeting on a Greek island, a contemporary fable of Daphne and Apollo plays out. But even with Daphne, Leonard is shadowed by the other Leonard Cohen, whom he fears is the real Apollo. The ancient myth haunts the fated lovers, and the nobody Leonard Cohen's life becomes at once a mystery, a miracle, and a myth on its own terms. Once upon a time, Apollo fell hard for Daphne, who turned herself into a laurel tree. No less a fate awaits the protagonists of this slender yet universal novel, where art, love, and fame all fatefully intertwine.

A parable of American society today, Land of Cockaigne is by turns furious, funny, subversive, tragic, and horrifying. What is to be done in the disaster of our times? Walter Rath offers a clue, a thesis, or a prayer: Love is an action, not a feeling. Once you go down this path of faith, there is much to be done.

Bealport is a portrait of a place, at once sympathetic, mordant, unsparing, comic, tragic, and universal, and of a way of life that is passing. It is a novel of a town, and to no small degree of every town, in America and beyond.

America lost 1.4 million citizens in the North Korean attacks of March 2020.This is the final, authorized report of the government commission charged with investigating the calamity.

Dr. Elaine Pagels in her Gnostic Gospels does not address the source of Gnosticism. This book sets out to discover the Gnostic source and it is traceablity into Ancient Egypt. Through the Animal Gods / Symbols and hieroglyphics along the Nile the religious system is deciphered. However,''salvation'' co-existed along side the discovered religion, which later morphed into Freemasonry. Objective evidence demonstrates the religion, through an alternative interpretation of the allegory hieroglyphics. Later religions are examined to determine the likely influence of Egyptian of both types of religion found in Egypt. .