Art Essays

RYAN O’NEAL AND FARRAH FAWCETT. One of the most storied love affairs in Hollywood history, their romance has captivated fans and media alike for more than three decades. Fans of each other from afar, Ryan and Farrah met through her husband, Lee Majors, and fell passionately in love. Soon...

This limited-edition, leatherbound volume is signed by the author--a must-have for true golf fanatics everywhere. Originally published in 1972, Michael Murphy's Golf in the Kingdom has become one of the bestselling golf books of all time and has been hailed as "a golf classic if any exists in...

From Ron Rash, PEN / Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, comes a new collection of unforgettable stories set in Appalachia that focuses on the lives of those haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear—spanning the Civil War to the present day. The...

Black Music is a book about the brilliant young jazz musicians of the early 1960s: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, and others. It is composed of essays, reviews, interviews, liner notes, musical analyses, and personal impressions from 1959-1967. Also includes Amiri Baraka's reflections in a 2009 interview with Calvin Reid of Publishers Weekly.

A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler offers a blueprint for a creative life from the perspective of award-winning science-fiction writer and “MacArthur Genius” Octavia E. Butler. It is a collection of ideas about how to look, listen, breathe — how to be in...

The short fiction of Colum McCann documents a dizzying cast of characters in exile, loss, love, and displacement. There is the worn boxing champion who steals clothes from a New Orleans laundromat, the rumored survivor of Hiroshima who emigrates to the tranquil coast of Western Ireland, the...

A lively, inside look at how Bollywood, Turkish soap operas, and K-Pop are challenging America's cultural dominance around the world. There is a vast cultural movement emerging from beyond the Western world. Truly global in its range and allure, it is the biggest challenge yet to Hollywood...

In a crumbling neighbourhood in New Delhi, a child waits for a mother to return home from work. And, in parallel, in a snow-swept town in Germany on the Baltic Sea coast a woman, her memory fading, shows up at a deserted hotel. Worlds apart, both embark, in the course of that night, on...

Today, seventy-three years after his death, journalists still tell tales of Charles E. Chapin. As city editor of Pulitzeras New York Evening World, Chapin was the model of the take-no-prisoners newsroom tyrant: he drove reporters relentlesslyaand kept his paper in the center ring of the circus...

カナダのカフェで食べたふわふわのワッフル。モンゴルの青空の下、遊牧民と調理した羊のドラム缶蒸し。旅の最終日にバーテンダーが作ってくれたコーヒー味のオリジナルカクテル。

取材で訪れたラトビアに、恋してしまいました。手作りの黒パンや採れたての苺が並ぶ素朴だけれど洗練された食卓、代々受け継がれる色鮮やかなミトン、森と湖に囲まれて暮らす人々の底抜けに明るい笑顔。

古いアパートを借りて、ベルリンに2カ月暮らしてみました。土曜日は青空マーケットで野菜を調達し、日曜日には蚤の市におでかけ。窓の外から聞こえるストリートの演奏をBGMに、読書をしながらお茶を

天然水で作る地球味のかき氷(埼玉・長瀞)。ホームステイ先の羊肉たっぷり手作り餃子(モンゴル)。地元の山菜を使った一日一組の贅沢なレストラン(滋賀・米原)。

ベルリンで暮らし始めて一年。冬には友人と温泉で新年会をしたり、家で味噌を仕込んだり。春になったら青空市で見つけた白いアスパラガスに、薄切りハムとオリーブオイルを添えて。短い夏には美味しい味と

夫の帰りを待ちながら作る〆鰺。風邪で寝込んだときに、友人が届けてくれた菜の花ご飯。元気を出したい人の為に、身体と心がポカポカになる野菜のポタージュ…。大切なお客さまの為ならば、八百屋を6軒は

女子四人組で旅したインドでは、ヨガとカレー三昧。仕事で訪れたパリでは、お目当てのアップルパイを求めて一人お散歩。旅先で出会った忘れられない味と人々。でも、やっぱり我が家が一番! 新しく家族の

寒い日には体と心まで温まるじゃがいもと鱈 のグラタン、春になったら芹やクレソンのし ゃぶしゃぶを。石垣島から届いたパイナップ ルでタルトを焼いたり、ペンギンの仕事場に トンカツの出前をするこ

パリの蚤の市で宝物探しに奔走し、モロッコでは夕日を見ながら屋台で舌鼓。旅先でお気に入りのカフェを見つけては、本を読んだり、手紙を書いたり、あの人のことを思ったり。年末に帰ってきた自宅では

それでも、ありうべき未来へ! コロナ時代に顕在化した政治的無責任、社会基盤の崩壊、人心の動揺…。「時代の神経」である作家の感応力が、深く見つめる。リアルでありながら、理想を手放さない稀有な思考。危機の時代の羅針盤。

Life on the Mississippi expresses the full range of Twain's literary personality. It remains the most vivid, boisterous, and provocative account of the cultural and societal history of the Mississippi Valley, from 'the golden age' of steamboating to the violence wrought by the Civil War.