Art & Literature

The book is full of humorous anecdote and rich characterization, and paints a vivid picture of 18th-century London, peopled by prominent personalities of the time....

The inspiration for the FX series Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette A NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER This “intimate and sympathetic portrait of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy that is as enthralling as she was” (Dana Thomas, New York Times bestselling...

“Consent” is a Molotov cocktail, flung at the face of the French establishment, a work of dazzling, highly controlled fury...By every conceivable metric, her book is a triumph.” -- The New York Times Already an international literary sensation, an intimate and powerful memoir of a young...

A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Solnit's own life to explore issues of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown....

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his...

From the New York Times Bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes the story of one man trying to out-drink his memories, outlast his demons, and outrun his past. "I was addicted to "Bewitched" as a kid. I worshipped Darren Stevens the First. When he'd come home from work and Samantha...

In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, one of the principal New England Transcendentalists, left the small town of Concord for the country....

From a critically acclaimed biographer, an engrossing narrative of Robert Louis Stevenson’s life, a story as romantic and adventurous as his fiction.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Deepen your insight into and appreciation for the writings J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis as you explore the untold story of how the First World War shaped their lives, faith, and writings. Had there been no Great War, there would have been no Hobbit, no Lord of the...

Winner of the H.R.F. Keating Award for best biographical/critical book related to crime fiction, and nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe and Macavity Awards for Best Critical/Biographical book. Ninety crime writers from the world’s oldest and most famous crime writing network give tips and...

" The Plague and I" recounts MacDonald's experiences in a Seattle sanitarium, where the author spent almost a year (1938-39) battling tuberculosis....

In Globe Catherine Arnold takes the listener on a tour of Shakespeare's London, looking at how they shaped each other. Acting turned into a trade, and troupes of touring players perfected their craft....

A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s life and presidency. Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln’s gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever-expanding political circles in Illinois...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Gray's tale of going sober is uplifting and inspiring' - The Evening Standard 'An icon of the Quit Lit movement' - Condé Nast Traveller 'Fascinating' - Bryony Gordon 'Not remotely preachy' - The Times 'Jaunty, shrewd and convincing' - Sunday Telegraph 'Admirably...

A searing confessional infused with the darkest humor, Permanent Midnight chronicles the opiated abyss of a Hollywood screenwriter and his formidable climb into sobriety. Made into a film starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, Permanent Midnight is revered by critics....

The renowned diarist continues the story begun in Henry and June and Incest. Drawing from the author's original, uncensored journals, Fire follows Anaïs Nin's journey as she attempts to liberate herself sexually, artistically, and emotionally....

In the 200 years since Blake's death, the visionary artist, poet, and writer has become a household name, often beloved. Yet many struggle to comprehend his kaleidoscopic ideas; how they speak to human longings and the challenges of living in anxious times.

CBS radio broadcaster William L. Shirer was virtually unknown in 1940 when he decided there might be a book in the diary he had kept in Europe during the 1930s...

Bloomsbury presents The Loves of My Life by the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex. Read by Joel Froomkin.

Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her. She grew up yearning to be an actress; but when that ambition was thwarted by marriage and the war, she turned to...

Named a Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times In this vividly rendered and empathetic biography of two of the greatest poets of the 20th century—Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton—“the friendship and rivalry that the pair shared—not to mention the titular cocktails at a Boston...

Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material....

‘People often say that non-fiction books read like fast-moving thrillers, but this one genuinely does… This is a splendid book – and highly recommended.’ Daily Mail A remarkable piece of investigative journalism into one of the most pervasive and troubling mysteries of recent memory. 01...

Antwone Quenton Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment his single mother gave birth to him in prison. As a foster child, he suffered more than a dozen years of emotional abandonment and physical abuse, until he escaped and forged a life on the streets. And just as his life was about...

‘The way Robert Peal describes Georgian England, you’d be mad not to want to live there yourself’ GUARDIAN Anne Bonny and Mary Read, pirate queens of the Caribbean Tipu Sultan, the Indian ruler who kept the British at bay Olaudah Equiano, the former slave whose story shocked the world Mary...

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.

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.

El Gran Premio de España de 2014 fue el primero en el que trabajé con los tres mejores pilotos españoles de la historia de este deporte. Tres de los mejores del mundo. Dani Pedrosa, Jorge Lorenzo y Marc Márquez. Fue el inicio de una relación profesional que ha llegado hasta el día de hoy, incluso después de retirarse Jorge y Dani, ahora compañeros en las retransmisiones de DAZN. Los años que he coincidido con los tres en este pequeño universo, y a través de conversaciones delante y detrás de las cámaras, me han permitido conocer sus historias.

Pocas personas han conocido tan bien como Esther Mucientes, al frente de la sección de Televisión del diario El Mundo y muy cercana a sus protagonistas, el sorprendente nacimiento del programa, su extraordinario éxito y las razones de un final que ha respondido a otros intereses diferentes a los de la audiencia.

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...

Pilar Cernuda hace en estas páginas un recorrido por sus más de cincuenta años de profesión, en los que ha vivido experiencias que nunca imaginó; ha conocido a personajes a los que jamás pensó conocer —por estas páginas pasan, entre otros, Serrat, Massiel, Yves Montand, Geraldine Chaplin, Theodorakis, Miguel Ríos o Melina Mercouri— y sido testigo directo de situaciones insólitas y momentos que forman parte de la historia. También ha tratado a los compañeros de oficio más influyentes, a dirigentes de todos los partidos, presidentes de gobierno y, por supuesto, a los reyes.

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.

The riveting story of three women reporters and the way they changed the world, work, and journalism. She hid on a Red Cross boat to reach Omaha Beach on D-Day. She walked the abandoned streets of Hong Kong to take food to her daughter’s father, a prisoner of war. She fought off the advances...

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 them, and ultimately, the true meaning of manhood...

One of our most visceral and important memoirs on race in America, this is the story of Nathan McCall, who began life as a smart kid in a close, protective family in a black working-class neighborhood. Yet by the age of fifteen, McCall was packing a gun and embarking on a criminal career that five years later would land him in prison for armed robbery.

Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 - December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is his debut novel Catch-22, published in 1961, a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for a dilemma with no easy way out.

El relato deslumbrante de una vida que es memoria de México y de su fascinante literatura. Tras la saga dedicada a sus orígenes, Gonzalo Celorio habla de sí mismo y nos entrega unas memorias deslumbrantes que son también una gran obra literaria. Asistimos en primera persona a su vida privada y pública, a su vocación literaria, su formación intelectual, sus tareas institucionales como maestro, académico, difusor de la cultura, pero a la vez, a su vida más íntima. Están aquí sus exultantes pasiones: la palabra, la literatura, la música popular, la fiesta, el magisterio, la amistad y el amor.

In this fearless and inspiring memoir, trailblazing journalist Joan Lunden pulls back the curtain on the defining moments that shaped her extraordinary life—from breaking barriers on national television to reshaping motherhood, survivorship, and aging on her own terms.

Caroline Calloway is the viral storyteller who helped define the modern influencer era – an online legend whose life became one of the internet's most captivating sagas. Her voice isn't just distinctive – it is the culture she helped create. In Scammer: The Director's Cut, Caroline Calloway shares with you exactly how it is in her fabulously chaotic mind. 'The Director's Cut of the Scammer audiobook is an internet invention that's the first of its kind. And like all of my best breakthroughs it takes the existing framework of online culture we already know and love, and innovates.

El entusiasmo y la capacidad de identificación que Jane despierta resultan tan profundos que la interpretación contemporánea ha colocado a la escritora en el centro de su familia, de su sociedad e incluso de su tiempo, y la contempla y debate sobre ella, sus gustos, sus amoríos, sus desgracias o sus características literarias conforme a la importancia de la que en la actualidad goza.

Precisamente de eso trata Psicopompo: de volar. El amor de Nothomb por los pájaros desembocó en una suerte de mímesis forzada cuando, a los doce años, vivió el episodio más doloroso de su vida: un abuso que derivó en la anorexia que la acompañaría toda su adolescencia. La escritura se convierte así en su renacimiento: la forma de sobrevolar un cuerpo hostil y enfermo y una mente obsesionada con la destrucción. Con Psicopompo, probablemente su texto más personal y arriesgado hasta la fecha, Nothomb ofrece una reveladora visión de conjunto de su obra y añade un nuevo capítulo a su autobiografía.

Se ha escrito mucho sobre Mark Twain. Sin embargo, poco se ha hecho para escuchar sus propias palabras, pensamientos y sentimientos acerca de su vida, desafíos y éxitos. La serie En Sus Propias Palabras tiene precisamente ese propósito, comenzando con él como el mayor ingenio de su época y...

On a beaucoup écrit sur Mark Twain. Cependant, peu de choses ont été faites pour entendre ses propres mots, pensées et sentiments concernant sa vie, ses défis et ses succès. La série En ses propres termes vise précisément ce but, en commençant par présenter l'homme qui était le plus...

Se ha escrito mucho sobre el Dr. Johnson. Sin embargo, poco se ha hecho para escuchar sus propias palabras, pensamientos y sentimientos acerca de su vida, desafíos y éxitos. Nuestra serie En Sus Propias Palabras tiene precisamente ese propósito, comenzando con el mayor ingenio de su época y...

Kidnapping : Péripéties et Révélations d'une Victime raconte l'histoire d'un journaliste enlevé à son domicile, à Port-au-Prince, Haïti, par un puissant gang. Libéré au bout de quelques jours de séquestration, l'otage partage cette amère expérience et révèle les facettes souterraines du fonctionnement de l'une des plus grandes cellules de kidnapping de la capitale haïtienne.

Iris Radisch nimmt den Leser mit auf eine faszinierende Reise durch Camus' Leben und Werk. Dieser Autor ist kein Heiliger. Sein Leben und seine Bücher erzählen von der Sehnsucht nach den großen, elementaren Erlebnissen, vom Glück der Beschränkung auf das Essentielle, vom Zauber der Einfachheit. Camus verwickelt seine Leser in die grundlegenden Fragen nach richtig und falsch, nach gut und böse, und seine Werke fordern heraus zu einem neuen Nachdenken über die Natur des Menschen.

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.

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.

Wie man jedes Hinfallen als Erfolg sieht. Wer renoviert schon als handwerklicher Volllaie ein Haus – nur mit YouTube-Tutorials? Wer macht den Fehler, wenn man schon dreimal durch den Führerschein gefallen ist und meldet sich zum Motorradführerschein an? Und zwar bei exakt jenem Fahrlehrer, der einen vor 20 Jahren so oft hat durchfallen lassen? Unser Autor!

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...