From journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign―ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement a...
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New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2023
Александра Кассандра100 книг
Александра КассандраNew York Times 100 Notable Books of 2023
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century —and a probing consideration of what it means to be a wife and a writer...
For millennia, owls have captivated and intrigued us. Our fascination with these mysterious birds was first documented more than thirty thousand years ago in the Chauvet C...
Тахир Хамут Изгил, уйгурский поэт, переехал с семьей в США в 2017 г., спасаясь от китайских властей, безжалостно преследовавших его народ. Сбежав, Тахир не только спасся о...
1740 год, Британия. Корабль Его Величества «Вейджер» отправляется в погоню за испанским галеоном. На борту — 250 здоровых крепких мужчин.
1742 год, Бразилия. К берегу п...
Born in 1945, Ruth J. Simmons grew up the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Her first home had no running water, no electricity, no books to read. Yet despite this—or, in he...
Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy
James B. Stewart, Rachel Abrams
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(0)The shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount Global, the multibillion-dollar entertainment empire controlled by the Redstone family, and th...
An unmatched guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Jeff Sharlet journeys into corners of our national psyche where others fear to tread. The Undertow is ...
An award-winning critic and cultural historian, JEREMY EICHLER currently serves as the chief classical music critic of The Boston Globe. He is the recipient of an ASCAP De...
Malcolm Macarthur was a well-known Dublin socialite and heir. Suave and urbane, he passed his days mingling with artists and aristocrats, reading philosophy, living a lif...
A “rich hybrid of memoir and history” ( The New Yorker ) of the literary art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by one of its influential practitioners, an ...
Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that forged a new future for the Philippines. Three decades later, in the face of mount...
Longlisted for the National Book Award The never-before-told story of an obscure little street at the lower tip of Manhattan and the remarkable artists who got their start...
A wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture.
Stranded with...
An astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Schoenberg from notoriety, restoring him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers. In his time,...
Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges was madly in love when his life was shattered by painful heartbreak. But the breakdown that followed illuminated an incontrovertible truth...
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America
• A National Best...
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the...
The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television.
Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spann...
In this unflinching, deeply personal book that expands on her instantly viral Paris Review essay, What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men? Claire Dederer asks: Can we ...