Titoli in Arte e letteratura

Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person’s compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counter-culture family in the Canadian wilderness—a searing story of physical, emotional, and psychological survival. In the late 1960s...

An award-winning poet’s “beautifully written” (The Seattle Times) portrait of an American family and his own coming of age in the 1960s and 1970s in the wake of his father’s suicide. This memoir “belongs on the special shelves we keep for the books we cannot quite forget” (George...

Chronicling the life and legacy of Coco Chanel, one of fashion's most influential couturiers, this book offers a fascinating account of Chanel's evolution and innovation. From her early days of millinery, through her revolutionary inventions in sportswear and jersey fashions for women, to the classics that made her name, such as the Chanel cardigan jacket, little black dress and exquisite perfumes.

Baby Boy Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment of his birth in prison to a single mother. He ultimately came to live with a foster family, where he endured near-constant verbal and physical abuse. In his mid-teens he escaped and enlisted in the navy, where he became a man of the...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING JASON SEGAL AND JESSE EISENBERG, DIRECTED BY JAMES PONSOLDT An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallace’s Infinite Jest tour In David...

شاعر ماجن وشعر جميل ونفس متمردة.. يصوغ العقاد سيرة أبي نواس، الشاعر الذي تفرّد في عصره، شاعراً ومفكراً، محطّماً قيود المجتمع، ومُحلّقاً في عالم الشعر.

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.

رحلة فكرية عميقة لحياة الفيلسوف والشاعر الأكثر جدلًا وغموضًا أبي العلاء المعري، بقلم العقاد الساحر وثقافته الواسعة جسد عبقرية هذا المفكر الاستثنائي الذي سبق زمانه بتساؤلاته حول الحياة والموت، والإيمان والعقل، والخير والشر. فقدم صورة صادقة ومثيرة لروح المعري المتمردة، ليتركما مندهشين متسائلين عن السر العبقرية والجمال!

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892 to September 2, 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–55). While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien, the success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings precipitated an avalanche of new books and authors in the genre.

في «الكاتبات والوحدة» تتحدث نورا ناجي عن عشر كاتبات، عشن حياة قاسية، إذ لم يمنحهن المجتمع فرصة للتنفس والانطلاق، وحاصرهن بكثير من الخطوط الحادة. وكي تصل إلى أعماق...

Dans ce récit pionnier, devenu un classique traduit en 18 langues, Daniel Tammet nous fait voir le monde à travers son expérience d'autiste Asperger. Élu parmi les « 100 génies vivants » pour sa prodigieuse capacité de calcul et de mémorisation, il nous entraîne dans un voyage intérieur fascinant où les nombres ont des couleurs, les mots des textures, et chaque jour de la semaine sa propre personnalité.

‘Michael Thomas has written a truly extraordinary memoir, one that sears and sings with such terrible, beautiful honesty it will burn its way deep into your bones. The Broken King is a triumph, and reading it will leave you changed. It’s genuinely one of the most extraordinary and magical...

A masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike - a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and work. In this magisterial biography, Adam Begley offers an illuminating portrait of John Updike, the acclaimed novelist, poet, short-story writer, and critic who saw himself as a literary spy in small-town and suburban America.

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.

For a world of devoted fans, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers. Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with...

From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks—writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of...

Because Plath drew so heavily on her own life in both her poetry and her fiction, the outlines of her life are familiar to listeners. Like most writers, Plath changed the facts of her life in her writing. In her determination to be both wife and mother, on the one hand, and teacher and writer on the other, Plath tried simultaneously to fulfill and to fight the conventions that bound women in the 1950s. In this biography, the first to draw on unpublished journals and letters recently made available, Wagner-Martin examines the ironies, contradictions, and achievements of Plath's life.

Quella di Liana Orfei non è stata certo una vita ordinaria: nata "per miracolo" dentro un caravan in una notte di tempesta, di salute gracile e precaria, da bambina ha sofferto a causa di una malattia che l'ha costretta a letto per molti anni. Tuttavia, il suo temperamento e la sua buona stella (è nata con la cosiddetta "camicia della Madonna") non le hanno mai permesso di lasciarsi andare e anzi l'hanno portata a cimentarsi in sfide sempre nuove.

Los intereses literarios de Octavio Paz se manifestaron de manera muy precoz, y publicó sus primeros trabajos en diversas revistas literarias. Sus preocupaciones sociales también se hicieron presentes a temprana edad y en 1937 realizó un viaje a Yucatán con la intención de crear una escuela para hijos de trabajadores.

Known to millions mainly as the author of the "The Lottery", Shirley Jackson has been curiously absent from the mainstream American literary canon. A genius of literary suspense and psychological horror, Jackson plumbed the cultural anxiety of postwar America more deeply than anyone. Ruth Franklin reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.