Zeigt Titel in Journalisten, Redakteure & Verleger

In diesem Buch erzählt SPIEGEL-Reporter Alexander Kühn von dem Jahr, in dem er 50 wurde – und wie es ihm gelang, seinen Frieden zu machen mit dem Älterwerden. Dafür tat er das, was Journalisten nun mal tun: Er sprach mit interessanten Menschen, bekannten und weniger bekannten, älteren, alten und sehr alten, darunter der Milliardär Klaus-Michael Kühne oder Otto Waalkes, Barbara Schöneberger und Nana Mouskouri, Thomas Gottschalk und der YouTuber Rezo, eine Sekretärin, eine trans Frau und ein Bäckermeister.

The short-lived Blitz club in London's Covent Garden was more than somewhere to hang out or be seen: it was a catalyst for cultural explosion, a counter-culture blast against everything Thatcher's leadership had ushered in by the dawn of the 80s. In Blitz, Elms reflects on a club night founded by working-class kids, one whose impact reverberated beyond its doors, through the worlds of Art, Literature, Fashion and Music, and into the present day.

Hugo Portisch erzählt von seinen prägenden Jugendjahren, von seinen Reisen und Erfahrungen bei der Arbeit und der Zeit nach dem Berufsleben, in der Toskana.

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD A hard-hitting and powerful look at hockey's moment of reckoning in Canada, and the ways in which a game that is so universally loved has been rocked in recent years by court cases involving sexual assault and startling...

The definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face. No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and...

'Think of the Bible and Homer, think of Shakespeare and think of me,' wrote Gertrude Stein in 1936. Admirers called her a genius, sceptics a charlatan: she remains one of the most confounding—and contested—writers of the twentieth century. In this literary detective story, Francesca Wade delves into the creation of the Stein myth.

GARLIC AND SAPPHIRES is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine anonymously. There is her stint as Molly Hollis, a frumpy blond with manicured nails and an off-beige Armani suit that Ruth takes on when reviewing Le Cirque. The result: her famous double review of...

*** Elizabeth Day’s new novel, One of Us, is available to pre-order now from Amazon. Out 25th September 2025. *** Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day’s brilliantly funny, painfully honest and insightful celebration of things going wrong. This is a book for...

The long-awaited memoir by Cameron Crowe—one of America’s most iconic journalists and filmmakers—revealing his formative years in rock and roll and bringing to life stories that shaped a generation, in the bestselling tradition of Patti Smith’s Just Kids. If you’ve seen Almost Famous...

The famous journalist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich documents his front row seat at the pivotal events leading up to World War II. In the second of a three-volume series, William L. Shirer tells the story of his own eventful life, detailing the most notable moments of his career as a journalist stationed in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. Shirer was there while Hitler celebrated his new domination of Germany, unleashed the Blitzkrieg on Poland, and began the conflict that would come to be known as World War II.

“One of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer.” —The Sunday Times (London) From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply moving recollections about his...

Hace unos años me rompí por completo. Tanto como para que tuvieran que atarme a la cama de un hospital psiquiátrico para evitar que pudiera hacerme daño. No tengo ni idea de cuándo empezó a formarse mi locura. A lo mejor nací genéticamente predispuesto. A lo mejor fui macerando una...

TIME’S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “Patricia Evangelista’s searing account is not only the definitive chronicle of a reign of terror in the Philippines, but a warning to the rest of the world about the true dangers of...

Ein Glücksfall für die Historiker: Harry Graf Kessler (1868 - 1937) beschreibt bis in die Kleinigkeiten das Zeitgeschehen im Jahre 1920. Reise in der Schweiz; Betrachtungen zum gescheiterten Kapp-Putsch; Vortragsreisen zum Völkerbund. Hier bekommt der Politiker Kessler den Beinamen "der rote Graf".

The Vanity Fair Diaries is the story of an Englishwoman barely out of her twenties who arrives in New York City with a dream. Summoned from London in hopes that she can save Condé Nast's troubled new flagship Vanity Fair, Tina Brown is immediately plunged into the maelstrom of the competitive New York media world and the backstabbing rivalries at the court of the planet's slickest, most glamour-focused magazine company. She survives the politics, the intrigue, and the attempts to derail her by a simple stratagem.

Ein Jahr lang wurde der Journalist Deniz Yücel im Hochsicherheitsgefängnis Silivri Nr. 9 bei Istanbul gefangen gehalten. Ohne Anklage. Seine Inhaftierung sorgte für die größte Belastung der deutsch-türkischen Beziehungen seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Im Februar 2018 wurde er unter abenteuerlichen Umständen freigelassen. In "Agentterrorist" erzählt Yücel, wie er dieses Jahr in Einzelhaft durchlebte und was ihm die "#FreeDeniz"-Kampagne und die Unterstützung seiner Frau bedeuteten.

Nuremberg, 1945. As the trials of Nazi war criminals begin, some of the world's most famous writers and reporters gather in the ruined German city. Crammed together in the press camp at Schloss Faber-Castell, where reporters sleep ten to a room, complain about the food and argue in the lively bar, they each try to find words for the unprecedented events they are witnessing.

Thilo Mischke unterwegs zu den Rändern der Welt: Mit eindrücklichen Reisereportagen begibt sich Mischke auf die Suche nach Antworten auf einige große Fragen. Als Journalist hat Thilo Mischke weit über hundert Länder dieser Welt bereist. Es ist dabei nicht der Reiz des Extremen, der ihn in die entlegensten Ecken treibt, sondern sein offener Blick für Menschen und ihre Geschichten, ja ein unersättlicher Hunger auf Lebenserfahrung.

After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downward into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable lifestyle had been shattered and millions were fleeing, his parents refuse to leave, steadfast in their allegiance to the failed state that has been their adopted home for 50 years.  

Hunter S. Thompson, "smart hillbilly"; boy of the South; born and bred in Louisville, Kentucky; son of an insurance salesman and a stay-at-home mom; public school-educated; jailed at 17 on a bogus petty robbery charge; member of the US Air Force (airman second class); copy boy for Time; writer for The National Observer; et cetera.