The Ghosts of Birds

The Ghosts of Birds

A new collection from â€œone of the worldâ€™s great essayistsâ€ (The New York Times)

The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into â€œa vortex for the entire universeâ€ (Boston Review). Here, Weinberger chronicles a nineteenth-century journey down the Colorado River, records the dreams of people named Chang, and shares other factually verifiable discoveries that seem too fabulous to possibly be true. The second section collects Weinbergerâ€™s essays on a wide range of subjectsâ€”some of which have been published in Harperâ€™s, New York Review of Books, and London Review of Booksâ€”including his notorious review of George W. Bushâ€™s memoir Decision Points and writings about Mongolian art and poetry, different versions of the Buddha, American Indophilia (â€œThere is a line, however jagged, from pseudo-Hinduism to Malcolm Xâ€), BÃ©la BalÃ¡zs, Herbert Read, and Charles Reznikoff. This collection proves once again that Weinberger is â€œone of the bravest and sharpest minds in the United Statesâ€ (Javier MarÃas).

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