Titoli in Arte e letteratura

"Dickens is the highest poetic expression of the English tradition between the heroic century of Napoleon, the glorious past, and imperialism, the dream of his future. (...) Only when one hates the hypocritical narrow-mindedness of Victorian culture from the bottom of one's soul can one appreciates with full admiration the genius of a man who compelled us to find this disgusting world of sated sluggishness interesting and almost endearing, who redeemed life's most banal prose into poetry".

Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world's consciousness and is still instantly recognizable, twenty years after his death. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition...

'I loved this book . . . I’m so desperate for you all to share in its wonder' - Elizabeth Day, author of How To Fail. Dear Reader is a moving, funny and joyous exploration of how books can change the course of your life, packed with recommendations from one reader to another. For as long as...

On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr., a fierce critic of the movement and America's most influential conservative intellectual. The topic was "the American dream is at the expense of the American Negro", and no one who has seen the debate can soon forget it. Nicholas Buccola's The Fire Is upon Us is the first book to tell the full story of the event.

A collection of celebrated columns from The Rumpus with new material and never-before-told tales, OG Dad finds Jerry Stahl fighting a terminal disease - not to mention mortality, sleeplessness, and the soul-crushing weirdness of preschool drop-offs with parents half his age. Square is the last frontier.

From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting: a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai—also known as Li Po In his own time (701–762), Li Bai's poems—shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life—were...

This is Irving Stone's powerful and passionate biographical novel of Michelangelo. His time: the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring popes, the all-powerful Medici family, the fanatic monk Savonarola. His loves: the frail and lovely daughter of Lorenzo de Medici; the...

"Nella mia vita ho avuto modo d'incontrare molti personaggi famosi e con loro ho condiviso grandi e piccole avventure. Molti di loro, ahimè, non esistono più, ma sono tuttora presenze vivissime nell'immaginario collettivo. Questo audiolibro vuole ricordare cosa sono stati il cinema, il teatro, la televisione e la radio di alcuni anni fa. A volte con un po' di nostalgia, perché alcune di quelle atmosfere non torneranno più, ma soprattutto con tanta ironia: aneddoti, scherzi, situazioni bizzarre, sono tante le cose da ricordare.

Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist extraordinaire: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

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.

Organist og forfatter Karl Bjarnhof (1898-1980) fortæller her i første bind af serien Stjernerne blegner selvbiografisk om sine barndomsår og om sin opvækst. Bogen beskriver følelsen af at miste synet og pludselig være nødt til at forholde sig til verden og til sig selv på en ny måde.

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?

The story of the legendary Random House founder, whose seemingly charmed life at the apogee of the American Century afforded him a front-row seat to literary and cultural history in the making “A stunning achievement . . . a sweeping intellectual history with a stunning cast of characters that...

WINNER OF THE HRF KEATING AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION CRIME BOOK 2018 An entertaining history of British thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed, in which award-winning crime writer Mike Ripley reveals that, though Britain may have lost an empire, her thrillers helped save the world...

How do you decide what is a 'story' and what isn't? What does a newspaper editor actually do all day? How do hacks get their scoops? How do the TV stations choose their news bulletins? How do you persuade people to say those awful, embarrassing things? Who earns what? How do journalists manage...

A family story of blood and memory and the haunting power of the past. 2018 WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER EWART-BIGGS MEMORIAL PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE NON-FICTION IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER After nearly three decades reporting conflict from all over the world for the BBC...

Considerado uno de los escritores latinoamericanos más importantes de la actualidad, este prolífico y multifacético autor peruano se ha forjado una sólida carrera en la literatura en base de obras monumentales y cautivantes narradas con un estilo magistral, digno de los mejores hombres de letras.

Jonathan Franzen's work raises major questions about the possibilities of contemporary fiction: How does one appeal to a broad mass of mainstream readers on the one hand while persuading connoisseurs, on the other, that one's fiction has is high art? Even more acutely, how did Franzen move from the rage that animates his first two novels to the more generous comic stance of the two later novels, on which his reputation rests?

En 1845, l'écrivain et philosophe Henry David Thoreau, se retire seul pour deux ans et deux mois, en pleine nature dans une cabane de sa confection. De cette expérience, il concevra un récit introspectif au fil des saisons qui deviendra un grand classique de la littérature américaine. "Je gagnai les bois parce que je voulais vivre suivant mûre réflexion, n'affronter que les actes essentiels de la vie, et voir si je ne pourrais apprendre ce qu'elle avait à enseigner, non pas, quand je viendrais à mourir, découvrir que je n'avais pas vécu." (Henry David Thoreau)

In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France's Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Packing up his enormous, 35,000 volume personal library, choosing which books to keep, store, or cast out, Manguel found himself in deep reverie on the nature of relationships between books and readers, books and collectors, order and disorder, memory and reading.