Art & Literature

Marc Bennetts, foreign correspondent for The Times and The Sunday Times, moved to Russia in the chaotic yet free final years of President Yeltsin's rule. Twenty-five years later, The Times pulled him out of Russia over concerns for his security following his arrest in Moscow at a protest against the war in Ukraine. From the "wild" 1990s in Moscow to narrowly escaping death under fire in Ukraine, The Descent is a unique and personal diary of how Russia spiraled into violent insanity.

If Rupert Murdoch isn’t making headlines, he’s busy buying the media outlets that generate the headlines. His News Corp. holdings—from the New York Post, Fox News, and most recently The Wall Street Journal, to name just a few—are vast, and his power is unrivaled. So what makes a man like...

In Loving Life, a pioneering figure in the fields of somatic psychology and relationship transformation takes us on a candid, heartfelt and often hilarious tour of his life journey. First, we meet his quirky Southern family, including his grandmother, who refused to drive in reverse, and a chainsmoking, high-powered mother who ran for mayor on a dare and won.

Named a Must-Read Book by W Magazine, Time, and more “Everybody’s Fly could comfortably sit alongside books by Richard Price, Lucy Sante, Tom Wolfe, or Ed McBain, chronicling New York from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s with both vivid, journalistic descriptions and the outsized flair from...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE From two-time National Magazine Award winner Tom Junod, a searching, brilliantly stylized memoir about a charismatic, philandering father who tried to mold his son in his image, the many secrets he hid, the son’s obsessive quest to uncover...

¿Quién era realmente J.R.R. Tolkien? ¿Qué lo llevó a crear uno de los mundos más ricos, complejos y universales de la literatura moderna? En este libro claro, atractivo y documentado, el catedrático Matthew Townend —experto en filología medieval y literatura comparada— traza un retrato profundo y accesible de Tolkien, explorando sus estudios, su vida personal, sus pasiones lingüísticas y sus influencias culturales. Además, incluye un prólogo especial de Miguel Salas (La brújula de la escóbula), que conecta la obra de Tolkien con la filosofía y el pensamiento simbólico.

Nobel Prize winner Han Kang’s first work of nonfiction published in English—an intimate, inspiring collection of writings on the connections between her life and art. What is love? It is the gold thread connecting between our hearts. In this light-filled and multifaceted book, Han Kang draws...

"Mason Currey is the undisputed master of finding, in the messy lives of great artists and thinkers throughout time, deeply human lessons about cultivating meaning in our current age." —Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of Slow Productivity and Deep Work Daily Rituals author Mason...

Driven brings a seasoned perspective to today's conversations about government, media, and the future of truth in the form of a deeply personal and long-awaited autobiography by Tom Johnson, an award-winning journalist who helped shape the twenty-four-hour news media as we know it. Johnson's...

One spring day in 1683, a notary's clerk in Delft entered the home of the late Magdalena Pieters van Ruijven and stumbled upon one of the wonders of the seventeenth-century world: twenty paintings by Johannes Vermeer. Rather than dispel the mysteries of Vermeer's life, this discovery merely gave...

George Eliot pushed the boundaries of fiction and of Victorian society. She was an extraordinary woman whose unconventional life meant that she was judged harshly by family, friends, and strangers. Eliot wanted to draw attention to the feelings and motivations of ordinary people, so that we...

Published in 1923, My Universities is the final instalment in the autobiographical trilogy by five-time Nobel Prize-nominee Maxim Gorky. Despite his failed attempts to enter the university at Kazan, Gorky forges an education of his own as he encounters an unusual array of characters–revolutionaries, religious fanatics, theological students and eccentric schoolteachers. Snatching cherished moments for reading books, a relief from the drudgery of his work in a bakery, Gorky comes to see the superficiality of a formal education.

A new edition of the letters of the most remarkable of the Mitford sisters--timed to a new streaming series about the ever-fascinating family and a new biography of Jessica coming in 2025. Born into the British aristocracy as one of the famous (and sometimes infamous) larger-than-life Mitford...

By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the legendary author and screenwriter of Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, and Brokeback Mountain, who transformed our vision of the West. Before Larry McMurtry became one of the...

Publiée en 1935, cet essai offre un portrait exhaustif d'Érasme et de son influence chrétienne, humaniste et intellectuelle. Puis, en seconde moitié, décrit le débat qui l'oppose à Luther et aux réformateurs germaniques et qui s'achève par la victoire du schisme et du machiavélisme. Défaite d'Érasme qui se limite à un travail intellectuel, en chambre, et refuse de débattre publiquement avec ses adversaires notamment lors de la diète de Worms en 1521, ce qui rappelle la formule de Péguy (sur Kant) « il a les mains pures, mais il n'a pas de mains ».

Beth McDonough spent two decades chasing truth on our TV screens. From 9/11 to the killing of George Floyd, she stood at the heart of America's biggest tragedies, exposing corruption and giving victims a voice. She clawed her way from tiny-town rookie to a high-profile crime and justice reporter, known for her fearlessness, her storytelling, and her refusal to back down. But behind the polished on-air persona was a secret she could no longer outrun. Beth's own life imploded under the weight of her alcoholism.

Als er im Sterben lag, sagte Paul Auster seiner Frau, er wolle ein Geist werden. Und das ist er für Siri Hustvedt geworden: eine allzeit spürbare Präsenz, schmerzlich und tröstlich zugleich. Sie trägt seine Jacke, sie meint seine Zigarillos im Haus zu riechen, sie liest seine Bücher von neuem. Und zum ersten Mal seit langer Zeit liest sie ihre eigenen Liebesbriefe, vom Beginn einer gemeinsamen Geschichte, die 43 Jahre währen sollte. Mit ihrem beispiellosen Trauer-, Gedächtnis- und Liebesbuch nähert sie sich dem unmöglichen Wunsch, Paul zu neuem Leben zu erwecken.

Das Goethe-Hörbuch für unsere Zeit: Rüdiger Safranski führt uns Goethe in neuem Licht vor und macht uns zu Zeitgenossen dieses Genies und Menschen, dessen Lebensspanne das verspielte Rokoko, die klassisch-romantische Zeit und die Nüchternheit des Eisenbahnzeitalters umgreift. Mit seinem Namen hat man später eine ganze Epoche bezeichnet: die Goethezeit.

Die Hörbuchbox "Werde dein hellstes Selbst" aus der "Bibliothek Europa" präsentiert Meisterwerke der Literatur und Philosophie in großer Vielfalt der Genres, Themen und Epochen, jeweils mit einer kurzen Erläuterung eingeleitet vom Herausgeber Sven Görtz.

Julia Alvarez returns to her first love, poetry, in her latest collection, with scintillating poems drawn from all the seasons of her life, from childhood to the years of silver. “Visitations is a cause for celebration. The first book of poems by Julia Alvarez in over twenty years braids...

Jurassic Jackass: The Uffizi Museum of Dysfunction is a satirical memoir that turns heartbreak into high art. Told through a museum-style narrative of “exhibits,” it curates one woman’s relationship with a charmingly avoidant Italian man whose emotional architecture proves as unstable as a Renaissance ruin.

Durante décadas, José Ramón Fernández no solo narró el deporte, lo entendió y lo expuso como un espejo del poder, la corrupción y la injusticia. En estas memorias, el periodista que marcó un antes y un después en la televisión mexicana cuenta su historia: desde su infancia en Puebla, su formación intelectual y su despertar político en los años previos a 1968, las coberturas de Juegos Olímpicos y Copas del Mundo, hasta la construcción de un estilo periodístico frontal que desafió a los monopolios y dictaduras deportivas que moldearon—y deformaron—el deporte nacional.

Pascale Hugues folgt in ihrem neuen Hörbuch den Spuren ihrer Mutter, die viel zu früh starb. Yvette wird im elsässischen Colmar geboren, 1929, im Jahr der Großen Depression. Yvettes Leben ist stets zwischen zwei Polen, ein Spiegel ihrer Krankheit. Bipolar. Pascale Hugues erfuhr als Kind nicht, warum ihre fürsorgliche Mutter wochenlang verschwand. Jetzt begibt sie sich auf die Suche. Sie zeichnet das Bild einer Zeit, in der psychische Krankheiten ein Tabu sind, die man hinter schützenden Lügen verbirgt.

«Mi vida se rompió muchas veces, pero cada vez fui encontrando piezas nuevas que no sabía que existían.» Crecer como okupa en un barrio complicado de Alcalá de Henares y dentro de los Testigos de Jehová marcó los límites de lo que Noemí creía que podía soñar. Aprendió desde niña a obedecer y a sentirse barro en manos de otros. Pero su vida estaba destinada a romperse muchas veces: un accidente que casi la destroza, un matrimonio impuesto por la culpa, una expulsión de los Testigos que la dejó completamente sola y alejada de su familia…

Listen to true stories about this dazed and confused boy as he tries every job imaginable in a desperate attempt to take advantage of his worthless college degree, make enough money to survive, and not hate the place he’s forced to spend a majority of his life at. Will he ever succeed as an artist? Can he hack it as a contract mechanic? Why did he get fired from L.A. Fitness after one day? How bad could it be managing a group of teenagers that sell ride photos at the Mall of America?