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From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer
Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and
previously published essays arguing that we are what we
watch.
From her creation of the first “Approval Matrix” in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize–winning columns for The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum has known all along that what we watch is who we are.
From her creation of the first “Approval Matrix” in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize–winning columns for The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum has known all along that what we watch is who we are.
Vivid, surprising, and utterly timely, Akiko Busch's HOW TO
DISAPPEAR explores the idea of invisibility in nature, art, and
science, in search of a more joyful and peaceful way of living in
today's increasingly surveilled and publicity-obsessed
world
In our increasingly networked and image-saturated lives, the notion of disappearing has never been both more enchanting and yet fanciful.
In our increasingly networked and image-saturated lives, the notion of disappearing has never been both more enchanting and yet fanciful.
Geoff Dyer's earlier book on film, Zona, was about Andrei
Tarkovsky's Stalker, so it was perhaps inevitable that he
should next devote his unique critical and stylistic energies to
Brian G. Hutton's Where Eagles Dare. A thrilling Alpine
adventure starring a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a
dynamically lethargic Clint Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare is
the apex of 1960s war movies, by turns enjoyable and preposterous.
An unprecedented look into the personal and creative life of the
visionary auteur David Lynch, through his own words and those of
his closest colleagues, friends, and family — adapted by
David Lynch from the print book especially for this audio
program
In this unique hybrid of biography and memoir, David Lynch opens up for the first time about a life lived in pursuit of his singular vision, and the many heartaches and struggles he’s faced to bring his unorthodox projects to fruition.
In this unique hybrid of biography and memoir, David Lynch opens up for the first time about a life lived in pursuit of his singular vision, and the many heartaches and struggles he’s faced to bring his unorthodox projects to fruition.
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018
A lively and timely introduction to the roots of self-understanding--who we are and how we should act--in the cultures of ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and Middle Ages and the Renaissance
"Know thyself"--this fundamental imperative appeared for the first time in ancient Greece, specifically in Delphi, the temple of the god Apollo, who represented the enlightened power of reason.
A lively and timely introduction to the roots of self-understanding--who we are and how we should act--in the cultures of ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and Middle Ages and the Renaissance
"Know thyself"--this fundamental imperative appeared for the first time in ancient Greece, specifically in Delphi, the temple of the god Apollo, who represented the enlightened power of reason.
A single book might not change the world. But this utterly
original meditation on art and war might transform the way you
see the world—and that makes all the
difference.
“How to live in the face of so much suffering.
“How to live in the face of so much suffering.
This warm, loving, and often hilarious personal history
of My Fair Lady,
Camelot, and Gigi describes the cast of a
great era in American musical theater. Moss Heart, Fritz Loewe,
Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Cecil Beaton, Louis
Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier, Leslie Caron, Vincente Minelli, Arthur
Freed, and many others.
The epic made simple. The miracle in the mundane.
One day, while browsing an antique store in Helena, Montana, photographer Tyler Knott Gregson stumbled upon a vintage Remington typewriter for sale. Standing up and using a page from a broken book he was buying for $2, he typed a poem without thinking, without planning, and without the ability to revise anything.
One day, while browsing an antique store in Helena, Montana, photographer Tyler Knott Gregson stumbled upon a vintage Remington typewriter for sale. Standing up and using a page from a broken book he was buying for $2, he typed a poem without thinking, without planning, and without the ability to revise anything.
A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in
search of his family’s hidden treasure and comes to
understand his ancestry as he never has before.
In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu’s
great-great-grandfather Liu’s Yangtze River hometown of
Xingang, Liu was forced to bury his valuables, including a vast
collection of prized antique porcelain, and undertake a
decades-long trek that would splinter the family over thousands of
miles.
The Wall Street Journal called him “a living
legend.” The London Times dubbed him “the most
famous art detective in the world.”
In Priceless, Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career for the first time, offering a real-life international thriller to rival The Thomas Crown Affair.
In Priceless, Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career for the first time, offering a real-life international thriller to rival The Thomas Crown Affair.
On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened–Leonardo da
Vinci’s Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than
twenty-four hours passed before museum officials realized she was
gone. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime. Pablo
Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art.
Told with consummate skill by the writer of the bestselling,
award-winning A Civil Action, The Lost
Painting is a remarkable synthesis of history and
detective story.
An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to scholars.
An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to scholars.
