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Siamo a Ostia, nel 2013, e tra gli abitanti di quei palazzi c'è anche Federica Angeli, cronista di nera per le pagine romane di La Repubblica, che in quella periferia è nata e cresciuta. Da tempo si occupa dei clan locali e ha subìto gravi minacce. Sa quindi come è fatta la paura, ma crede che l'altra faccia della paura sia il coraggio. Se i vicini rientrano obbedienti al comando del boss, lei decide di denunciare ciò che ha visto. Dal giorno dopo la sua vita è stravolta.

One of the trailblazers of the modern female foreign correspondent, former Guardian reporter Hella Pick fled her native Austria as a Jewish child refugee in 1939. Over three decades she covered the volatile global scene, first in Africa, then in America and Eastern Europe. During 35 years with the Guardian, she reported on the Watergate Scandal in Washington, on Martin Luther King's march from Selma to Montgomery and on the Gdansk shipyard uprising in Poland. 

This "part memoir, part sports story" (Wall Street Journal) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Big Bam chronicles the clash of NBA titans over seven riveting games—Celtics versus Lakers, Russell versus Chamberlain—covered by one young reporter. Welcome to the 1969 NBA Finals!...

My adventures with the Legend, John Allen from our first meeting in 1970 to what is going on today. From the jungles if Cambodia to the swamps of Florida to the swamps of Washington, DC. And many exploits in between.

Good Villains is an odyssey into the minds of America's most polarizing figures—those who blur the line between icon and outcast. It begins with an unexpected encounter with Ye (formerly Kanye West) in late 2022, shortly after his billion-dollar empire collapsed and his presidential ambitions spiraled into chaos. What unfolds is a journey across the country, as author Shane Cashman gains unprecedented access to controversial cultural figures such as Alex Jones, Kari Lake, and Riff Raff—culminating in a harrowing profile of a woman at the center of a viral human trafficking controversy.

Las sílabas imitan la repetición del oleaje y su misterio, anuncian un paisaje entrañable en el horizonte, nos sitúan al pie en blanco de la vida diaria —esos que la imaginación y la casualidad llenan con sorpresa e invenciones—. El aniversario personal, la novedad literaria, las presencias que van y vienen al compás de la querencia y la memoria, la relectura de los clásicos, el paseo por una ciudad soñada, un elogio del microhistoriador, la música de The Beatles.

En la que sin duda es su crónica más emocionante, Juan Villoro cuenta cómo estuvo en condiciones de comparar la intensidad de dos de los terremotos más terribles que ha sufrido América Latina: el de 1985 en la ciudad de México y el de 2010 en Santiago de Chile. Convencido de que estos desastres deben contarse con las más representativas de las voces implicadas, Villoro tomó los relatos de sus compañeros de temblor y construyó un concierto de impresiones en el que no faltan el suspenso o el absurdo.

Quién mejor para descubrir las historias de los migrantes deportados que un periodista que ha encontrado su vocación en el nomadismo? A finales del gobierno de Barack Obama y principios del de Donald Trump, Leonardo Tarifeño viajó una y otra vez a Tijuana para conocer a esos bad hombres que de un momento a otro se quedaron sin nada.

El nombre de Alma Guillermoprieto es inseparable del auge que actualmente goza el periodismo narrativo. La autora lleva a sus lectores a conocer personajes extraviados en los confines de la globalidad, a emprender un viaje al corazón de la cultura que los hace posibles. El encanto internacional de los ritmos cubanos a través del exilio musical de Celia Cruz y del éxito del Buenavista Social Club, que rescató a grandes intérpretes de la isla. Los secretos de la cocina mexicana vista a través de los ojos y el paladar de una mujer que considera la comida como una forma de conocimiento.

Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of private correspondence, the highly anticipated follow-up to THE PROUD HIGHWAY. Spanning the years between 1968 and 1976, these never-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend...

Quentin Moynet, grand reporter à L'Équipe, nous raconte l'envers du décor. Les galériens qui se bagarrent dans une jungle sans-le-sou et peinent à boucler les fins de mois. Les frères Naw qui ont fui la guerre en Syrie pour jouer au tennis. Les conditions de vie précaires et solitaires, aggravées par le harcèlement quotidien, comme celui qu'a subi Pierre-Hugues Herbert, ou les menaces de mort reçues par Alice Tubello. La dépression, l'alcool, la drogue et les tentatives de suicide traversés par Catherine Tanvier et bien d'autres.

The Last Correspondent: Anthony Shadid, the Middle East, and the Ruins of War by Philip Bennett and Steve Fainaru is a forthcoming title from Celadon Books...

This is the story of how John Madden and Pat Summerall got to CBS and, although very different, how they became the greatest broadcast team of all time. It is told by Rich Podolsky, who worked alongside them both at CBS. Separately, they were great. Together, they were the greatest ever. Madden & Summerall is about two stalwarts of the game, but their story is not without controversy.

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...

A quasi novant'anni, Corrado Augias è un prezioso testimone del cambiamento. L'Italia di oggi - esclusi gli eterni vizi nazionali - assomiglia poco a quella di ieri. Augias ci racconta l'infanzia passata in Libia al seguito del padre ufficiale della Regia Aeronautica; la guerra e i bombardamenti; l'incubo di una feroce e lugubre occupazione; gli anni in un collegio cattolico, per lui che oggi si confessa ateo.

Moving to Los Angeles to cover Hollywood for the strangely singular and doomed Herald Examiner and then the Los Angeles Times, he profiled stars like Clint Eastwood, Ann-Margret and his irascible former St. Mark’s School of Texas soccer teammate Tommy Lee Jones. While examining the nation’s preoccupation with celebrity, he wondered if journalists like him were part of the problem or part of the solution?

An illuminating critical biography of one of our most influential nonfiction authors, New Yorker journalist Janet Malcolm. A titan of American letters, Janet Malcolm was a writer with a far-reaching impact and cultlike following, even as she actively opposed being a literary celebrity. For The...

Beth McDonough spent two decades chasing truth on our TV screens. From 9/11 to the killing of George Floyd, she stood at the heart of America's biggest tragedies, exposing corruption and giving victims a voice. She clawed her way from tiny-town rookie to a high-profile crime and justice reporter, known for her fearlessness, her storytelling, and her refusal to back down. But behind the polished on-air persona was a secret she could no longer outrun. Beth's own life imploded under the weight of her alcoholism.

Tutto comincia quando Oriana viene spedita a casa dell'uomo del secolo: Christian Dior. Lei lo aveva già intervistato nel 1949 dopo averlo braccato nella hall di un albergo fiorentino. Dieci anni dopo è a Parigi pronta a non cedere: «Quando gli chiedo perché sia ancora scapolo, mi risponde con voce finalmente decisa: "Mademoiselle, dedico alle donne quattro quinti della mia vita. Quando entro in casa, non voglio più vederle né sentirne parlare". Infatti non ho visto che camerieri». La cultura pop che si fa largo nel mondo risorto dal dopoguerra scopre anche gli stilisti.

A columnist for an upstate New York rural newspaper, Barry is candid, funny, inspiring and engaging in this compilation of his “best of the best” columns written since 2002. The vignettes in The Peas Were Cold, are a delight, from his days as a theatrical agent in New York and Los Angeles, to the “everydayness” of living in a small American town. During his New York theatrical agency days, Barry placed major talent on The Today Show, The Tonight Show, and The Merv Griffin Show.