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Sophia Maier reist dorthin, wo die Geschichten der Betroffenen beginnen: nach Syrien, Afghanistan, Palästina, in den Libanon, die Ukraine und an die Ränder Europas. Sie hört zu, fragt nach – mit Empathie und Respekt. Ihre Begegnungen erzählen von Schmerz und Verlust, aber auch von Würde, Widerstandskraft und Hoffnung – und davon, wo die blinden Flecken westlicher Politik liegen. Denn die Schicksale, denen sie begegnet, stehen nicht isoliert im Raum. Sie werden von Ländern wie Deutschland mitverursacht.

In literary circles of the mid-twentieth century, father and son, Ikbal and Idries Shah, spread seductive accounts of a mystical Middle East. Pitching themselves as the authentic voice of the Muslim world, they penned travelogues and exotic potboilers alongside weighty tomes on Islam and politics.

The groundbreaking story of the BBC’s first Black woman broadcaster — finally brought to light. Una Marson was unstoppable—a poet whose words lit up hearts, a broadcaster who made history in 1941 as the first Black woman on the BBC, and an activist who fought fiercely for racial and gender...

From the best-selling author of The Fish That Ate the Whale, Sweet and Low, and Tough Jews comes Make Your Own Mistakes, a candid, short memoir that chronicles Rich Cohen’s transition to young adulthood in New York City and beyond. Both amusing and thoughtful, this is the story of Rich’s quest to lead a life outside the confines of his father’s dream for him.

A fearless deep dive into the 2020 election from former MSNBC “Road Warrior” and now NBC Capitol Hill correspondent Ali Vitali, who covered the campaign trail every step of the way—investigating the gendered double standards placed on women presidential candidates of that cycle and those...

'Bette Dam was one of the very few Western journalists to gain real access to the Taliban movement' - The Guardian 'Bette Dam's biography/hunt for the truth behind the figure of Mullah Omar will change everything you thought you know about Afghanistan.' - Victor Blue, fellow at the New America...

One of America's best-known rock and entertainment journalists describes his journey from his childhood, cooped up in the "rice room" of his family's restaurant in Oakland's Chinatown, where he did chores, to the major role he played as a writer and editor at Rolling Stone. It is a story of teen worship of Elvis, but also of Chinese customs and the tragic murder of his brother, and of the '60s scene in San Francisco, where he found freedom - and his career.

The Tracking of a Russian Spy exhibits the harrowing consequences that can emerge when love, or something like it, intersects with modern-day espionage. Swenson details the perplexing set of events that follow his encounter with a beautiful stranger in a dusky New York City nightclub. The woman in question is Katya and as the two grow closer Swenson wonders whether there might be more to this woman than she lets on.

Do you remember your first time? People tend to remember the moment they first heard The Rush Limbaugh Show on the radio. For Zev Chafets, it was in a car in Detroit, driving down Woodward Avenue. Limbaugh's braggadocio, the outrageous satire, the slaughtering of liberal sacred cows performed with the verve of a rock-n-roll DJ-it seemed fresh, funny and completely subversive.

When Reynolds Price died in January 2011, he left behind one final piece of writing - two hundred candid, heartrending, and marvelously written manuscript pages about a critical period in his young adulthood. Picking up where his previous memoir, Ardent Spirits, left off, the work documents a brief time from 1961 to 1965, perhaps the most leisurely of Price's life, but also one of enormous challenge and growth. Price gave it the title Midstream. Approaching thirty, Price writes, is to face the notion that, "This is it. I'm now the person I'm likely to be…from here to the end."

Brought to you by Penguin. In this, his first memoir, John recounts his childhood, the highpoints and lowpoints of one of the longest entertaining careers in history, and the people, family and animals in his own life which have shaped it. Born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, John showed an early...

“[Lagnado writes] in crystalline yet melodious prose.” —New York Times Lucette Lagnado’s acclaimed, award-winning The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit (“[a] crushing, brilliant book” —New York Times Book Review) told the powerfully moving story of her Jewish family’s exile from...

Jack the Ripper was probably the first serial killer to appear in a large metropolis at a time when the general populace was literate and the press was a force for social change. The press was also partly responsible for creating many myths surrounding the Ripper. Robin Odell's Ripperology is the first study to present a sequential history of literary investigations of Jack the Ripper's crimes and to address the seven principal phases of Ripper speculations....

Это один из тысячи диалогов, которые ежедневно можно услышать в книжном магазине, и один из миллиона вопросов, на которые приходится отвечать книготорговцу. На все эти вопросы вы найдете ответы, если прочитаете «Байки книготорговца». Но главное — поймаете ту атмосферу, ради которой становятся продавцами книг, и познакомитесь с самыми разными людьми, которые заходят в книжный, — иногда вовсе не затем, чтобы купить очередной бестселлер.

Over rouw en het fijne van herinneren In 2021 krijgt Eva Hermans-Kroot de diagnose longkanker. Jarenlang gaat alle aandacht logischerwijs naar Eva. En is Matthijs – haar man en haar beste vriend – op de achtergrond altijd bij haar, een liefde die groot is en onvoorwaardelijk. Op 30 november 2024 sterft Eva, een feit dat zelfs het landelijke nieuws haalt, wordt Matthijs op 29-jarige leeftijd weduwnaar en begint de rouw en het alleen zijn. Voor het eerst dingen in zijn eentje doen waar Eva altijd bij was: kerst vieren, jarig zijn, familiebezoek. Hoe doe je dat?

A quasi novant'anni, Corrado Augias è un prezioso testimone del cambiamento. L'Italia di oggi - esclusi gli eterni vizi nazionali - assomiglia poco a quella di ieri. Augias ci racconta l'infanzia passata in Libia al seguito del padre ufficiale della Regia Aeronautica; la guerra e i bombardamenti; l'incubo di una feroce e lugubre occupazione; gli anni in un collegio cattolico, per lui che oggi si confessa ateo.

Brooklyn is a mythic place and the Gowanus Canal, pestilent and fertile, is its Nile. “Yous stay outta that f*cking water,” Uncle Honey used to warn us. We never listened. Mid-century Gowanus: Decades before the Whole Foods went up and the lofts were refurbished, a raucous, unruly, proudly...

حياة قلم هو سيرة أدبية فريدة يخطها عباس محمود العقاد، حيث يتحدث عن رحلته مع الكتابة التي بدأت في أسوان وتألقت على صفحات الأدب والصحافة.

Kriegsreporter und YouTuber Konstantin Flemig beleuchtet die Auswirkungen militärischer Konflikte auf das tägliche Leben in den betroffenen Regionen. Erzählerisch gibt er Einblicke in die Realitäten junger Menschen, die er auf seinen Reisen hinter die Frontlinien und in Krisengebiete trifft.

Nach ihrer Ermordung am 7. Oktober 2006 wird die Journalistin Anna Politkowskaja auf einen Schlag zur weltweiten Symbolfigur für den Kampf um Gerechtigkeit und Meinungsfreiheit. Bis heute gilt sie als eine der wichtigsten Kritikerinnen von Putins Russland. In diesem Buch erzählt ihre Tochter zusammen mit der Journalistin Sara Giudice erstmals die Geschichte ihrer Mutter: persönlich, bewegend und erschreckend aktuell.