Art Essays

Winner of the 2021 Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award A blistering exploration of America’s legacy of anti-Black violence from an indispensable poet of our time American history got you down? Are you feeling alienated? Join poet James Cagney in his blistering second collection...

В тайниках памяти — захватывающий рассказ о поисках таинственного автора романа "Лабиринт бесчеловечности", вызвавшего в Париже 1938 года бурю эмоций: одни называли его новым Артюром Рембо, другие обвиняли в плагиате. В наши дни книга производит неизгладимое впечатление на начинающего сенегальского писателя ДиеганаЛатираФайе, и он задается целью выяснить, что случилось с этим бесследно исчезнувшим человеком. Мысленное путешествие в прошлое и реальное — по следам автора — погружает Диегана в подробности давних драматических событий колониальной эпохи, Первой мировой войны, Холокоста.

Devdutt Pattanaik is the author of over twenty-five books and 500 articles on the relevance of mythology in modern times. Trained in medicine (MBBSfrom Grant Medical College, Mumbai University), he worked in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries for fifteen years before devoting all his...

A powerful and emotional memoir about family and memory from the father-son singing sensation whose heartwarming carpool karaoke video took social media by storm. At first, Simon’s beloved father, Ted, suffered sudden bad moods and forgetfulness. Then the diagnosis: Alzheimer’s. Ted was...

Bestselling author A. E. Hotchner's intimate account of his 53-year friendship with his pal Paul Newman. A. E. Hotchner first met Paul Newman in 1955 when the virtually unknown actor assumed the lead role in Hotchner’s first television play, based on an Ernest Hemingway story. The project...

Unabridged 6 hours An entertaining and eye-opening look into the new frontier of idea making...

From Tallulah Bankhead to Joan Crawford to the Kennedys and Madonna, the ultimate insider, Liz Smith has hobnobbed, air-kissed, and lunched with just about everybody who's been anybody over the last half-century--and then rushed to tell the world all about it. Now, in this candid, down-to-earth...

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)。