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Ian Fleming’s world travels and interests, as well as his journalism and wartime experiences, lent authority to everything he wrote. In 1959, the Sunday Times commissioned Fleming to write a series of dispatches from the world’s most beguiling locales. The result was Thrilling Cities, a masterpiece of well-observed travelogue that stands ably alongside the author’s Bond canon.

Inspired by Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith’s conversations in the wake of the 2024 election, this is a collection of poems, essays, and visual art on what we—individually and collectively—can hold onto, and what we can work towards. In times of difficulty, with a government working against its own people, we must turn to our friends and loved ones to provide context, language, energy, and hope. The People’s Project offers a range of perspectives, drawing wisdom from their communities and histories.

In this startlingly original, deeply irreverent cultural history, Ruby Tandoh traces that transformation, exposing how cult cookbooks, bad TV, visionary restaurants, and new social media have all wildly overhauled our appetites.

The essays in Does This Make Me Funny? introduce us to Zosia Mamet in all her glory—from her early days growing up in literary and dramatic circles, to her years as a young adult pining for acceptance and love, to her first attempts to make it as an actor, to where she and Shosh are now. A gripping, funny, and earnest look at what it means to be a girl in the world and how to define yourself amid the bustle of show business, Does This Make Me Funny? is a captivating debut from a natural-born storyteller.

無理なく、自然体に「老い」を愉しみ方とは――。家計簿、重いフライパン、無理して入る風呂、法事、終活、世間体などなど。

ノスタルジーと、可笑しみと。池袋、飯能、日本橋、所沢、諏訪、田園調布、高知、恐山、湯河原……。自分の中の記憶を、街単位で遡る。そこから掘り起こされる、懐かしいだけでは片付かない、景色と感情。

Le génie de Pascal s'est étendu à tous les domaines : mathématiques, physique, ingénierie, philosophie, littérature... Mais ce prodige, d'une grande précocité pour l'intelligence de la tête, avait tout à apprendre pour l'intelligence du cœur. Avec sa petite sœur Jacqueline, une enfant aussi géniale que lui, Pascal témoigne de ce qui fait sens dans l'existence humaine : non le pouvoir des rois, non la raison des savants, mais l'amour et la volonté qui grandissent dans une quête de sagesse.

Au-delà des ambitions littéraires et des rêves de reconnaissance, l'écriture est avant tout un appel. Entre réflexion philosophique et exploration pratique, découvrez comment l'acte d'écrire peut devenir un chemin de transformation, une quête de soi où chaque phrase trace la carte de notre paysage intérieur. Ce livre audio comprend également "La lettre", un conte philosophique d'Oscar Brenifier.

Nicolas Krastev-Mckinnon propose dans cet ouvrage une lecture littéraire et philosophique de l'univers du rappeur. Sous une forme fragmentaire, l'écrivain décrit les lignes de force d'une discographie aussi complexe que brillante, qui a marqué le paysage musical français de son empreinte. Dans cette version enrichie, toutes les entrées du dictionnaire ont été revues et augmentées. Au fil de vingt nouvelles sections, Nicolas Krastev-Mckinnon intègre également les deux derniers albums de Damso - J'ai menti & BĒYĀH - à son analyse.

“Reading Roberto Bolaño is like . . . watching the tracks of art and life merge at the horizon and linger there like a dream from which we awake inspired to look more attentively at the world.” —Francine Prose, The New York Times “We savor all he has written, as every offering is a...

In Fires Which Burned Brightly, Faulks, a reluctant memoirist, offers readers a series of detailed snapshots from a life in progress. They include a post-war rural childhood – ‘cold mutton and wet washing on a rack over the range’ – the booze-sodden heyday of Fleet Street and a career as one of the country’s most acclaimed novelists.

Исаак Бабель говорил: «Фраза рождается на свет хорошей и дурной в одно и то же время. Тайна заключается в повороте, едва ощутимом. Рычаг должен лежать в руке и обогреваться. Повернуть его надо один раз, а не два». Убедитесь в этом сами, прослушав аудиоверсию цикла очерков Исаака Бабеля «Петербургский дневник».

シャープで、鋭敏なことが優れていると世間では思われているが、本当にそうなのか!?　医師としての経験や作家としての眼差しを通じて、些細なことで揺るがない「鈍さ」こそ、生きていく上で最も大切で、源になる才能だと説き明かす。

あまりの面白さに一気読み！受験生も、かつて受験生だった人も、みんな読むべき異形の青春記。――森見登美彦さん（京大卒小説家）ものすごくキモくて、ありえないほど懐かしい。

若い世代へ遺したラストメッセージ貯める・増やすよりも豊かになる本当の生き方私は、「やりがいだけのために生きる」ことこ そが、真の幸福だと確信しています。

The experience of motherhood is monumental, yet rarely discussed in connection with literary or creative life. How do we navigate the twin devotions of love and art? How does motherhood disrupt the creative process? How does it enhance it? Good Mom on Paper is a collection of twenty essays that goes beyond the clichés to explore the fraught, beautiful, and complicated relationship between motherhood and creativity. Honest and intimate, critical and hopeful, this collection offers solace and joy to creative mothers and asks how we can better support their work.

Beginning with a jaw-dropping rumination on a centuries-old painting featuring a white man with a Black man's leg surgically attached (with the expired Black leg-donor in the foreground), contracts law scholar and celebrated journalist Patricia J. Williams uses the lens of the law to take on core questions of identity, ethics, and race.

Como quien arma un mosaico con fragmentos de orígenes diversos, Rivas construye ideas a partir de detalles, comenta su entorno y asume los temas clásicos del ensayo. Con tono directo aborda el pasado, la incomodidad del cuerpo y las derivas de un presente incierto.

Nino Haratischwili – international gefeierte Bestsellerautorin und Theatermacherin – ist nicht nur eine der wichtigsten literarischen Stimmen der deutschsprachigen Literatur, sie ist auch eine der wichtigsten politischen deutschsprachigen Autorinnen unserer Zeit. Aktuell ist unsere Zeit geprägt von politischer Aggression und einem gesellschaftlichen Klima des Hasses, Umbrüche und konkreter kriegerischer Bedrohung.

Since 2023, the best-selling and award-winning author and journalist has been reflecting, with deep empathy, on the horrific October 7th attacks on Israeli citizens, rising anti-Semitism, and the brutal violence against civilians in Gaza in her column for the Globe and Mail. As one of the leading Canadian voices on Jewish identity, Lederman’s impassioned work in the Globe has been a lifeline for listeners since October 7th, 2023. The work collected in this book captures the pain of so many: Marsha’s prose has a way of cutting through the noise and capturing the humanity behind the headlines