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A witty, insightful, and delightfully snarky blend of pop culture meets memoir meets real-life Devil Wears Prada as readers learn the stories behind twenty-five years at Vanity Fair from the magazine’s former deputy editor “Dilettante offers the best seat in the house into the workings of...

Born in New York City’s Black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married White poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school. The interracial couple moved into the city’s new bohemian quarter, the Lower East Side, in 1961. Through the decade’s opening years, new art, new sexual practices, new music, and new political awareness burgeoned. Beautifully, vividly, insightfully, Delany calls up this era of exploration and adventure as he details his development as a Black gay writer in an open marriage, with walk-ons by Bob Dylan, Stokely Carmichael, and more.

Bloomsbury presents American Mother by Colum McCann with Diane Foley, read by Colum McCann, Jamie Lee Curtis and Kristen Rock. An extraordinary story of grace, forgiveness and moral courage' Patrick Radden Keefe A 2024 HIGHLIGHT IN THE OBSERVER, GUARDIAN AND IRISH TIMES AN IMMEDIATE...

Sem tinta mostra que, dentro da transição de cabelo, cabem outras transições: do receio à aceitação; do preconceito inicial à mudança de visão; da descoberta dos fios brancos à descoberta de si mesma. Isso inclui um olhar aprofundado sobre os padrões de beleza a que as mulheres estão submetidas há séculos, muitas vezes sem se darem conta.

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE The “exhilarating” (The Boston Globe) 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] big...

Carl von Ossietzky (1889 - 1938) Journalist, Schriftsteller, Pazifist. Ob gegen links, rechts oder die Mitte, er kämpfte unabhängig mit seinen Artikeln für den Erhalt der Demokratie. Des Bürgers Wiederkehr im Jahre II nach der Revolution, Versailler Vertrag, Völkerbund, der Aufmarsch der Reaktion.

In seinem Essay berichtet Walter Jens über die Stationen seiner Reise: Olympia, Korfu, Kreta, Delos, Mykonos, Mykene, Delphi. Eingebunden sind auch die griechische Götter- und Sagenwelt und die Geschichte der archäologischen Ausgrabungen. Aber auch der gerade erst überstandene blutige Bürgerkrieg wird spürbar. Regie: Irmfried Wilimzig. Walter Jens (1923-2013) war ein deutscher Altphilologe, Literaturhistoriker, Schriftsteller, Kritiker und Übersetzer.

In 2014 I moved back to the United States after living abroad for fourteen years, my whole adult life, because my father was dying from cancer. Six weeks after I arrived in New York City, my father died. Six months after that I learned that I had inherited the gene that would cause me cancer too...

Winner of the 2015 Audie Award for History/Biography and Finalist for Audiobook of the Year Pulitzer Prize–winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time...

""A gripping, flawlessly researched, and overdue portrait of America’s trailblazing female journalists. Kim Todd has restored these long-forgotten mavericks to their rightful place in American history."" — Abbott Kahler, author (as Karen Abbott) of The Ghosts of Eden Park and Liar, Temptress...

In this Very Short Introduction, Deborah Martinsen explores Dostoevsky's tumultuous life story: his political imprisonment and narrow escape from execution, his Siberian exile, his gambling addiction, his romantic marriage, and his literary success.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist, she is an author, journalist, activist...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In a world quick to label, judge, and box in people, one father and son stood firm and refused to be defined by an autism diagnosis. If you’re channel surfing and happen upon Leland Vittert during his nightly national cable show on NewsNation, he comes off as...

Alice Schwarzer, Frauenrechtlerin und Journalistin: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp.

“2500 nautical miles to go, plenty of time to tell the story,” says Christian Williams as he begins his inspiring and entertaining tale of evolution from a distracted schoolboy to Washington Post journalist, Hollywood writer-producer and long-distance singlehanded sailor with more than 10 million views on YouTube. With an infectious curiosity that ranges from bilge pump mechanics to issues of philosophy of identity, the author never flags in his quest to learn what makes every life distinctive and yet defined by its intersection with others.

A touching and intimate correspondence between Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, offering timeless wisdom and a revealing glimpse into their lives Though Anderson Cooper has always considered himself close to his mother, his intensely busy career as a journalist for CNN and CBS...

From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory. In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate in...

The ultimate insider’s account: living and working in China in a period of unprecedented economic and social upheaval It was just after midnight when China’s notorious secret police came knocking. A late-night visit to his Shanghai laneway house by China’s notorious secret police triggered...

Narrated by the author: Experience the Southern California wildfires through Jacob Soboroff’s eyes—and voice. New York Times Bestseller and #1 Los Angeles Times Bestseller A "gripping, unshakeable firsthand account" (San Francisco Chronicle) of the firestorm that consumed Los Angeles, from...

'Outstanding' TIMES 'Gripping' ECONOMIST SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR Emotionally scarred after witnessing the bloody climax of the Beslan school siege in Russia's North...