From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in full. To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He la…
'Once more, Kate Summerscale shatters our preconceptions of a classic crime' Val McDermid From Britain's top-selling true crime writer and author of Sunday Times #1 bestseller THE SUSPICIONS OF MR …
Considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, Manhattan Transfer is an "expressionistic picture of New York" (New York Times) in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers a…
When John Rechy's explosive first novel, City of Night, was first published in 1963, it became a national bestseller and ushered in a new era of gay fiction. Bold and inventive in his account of the u…
Written in 1595, Richard II occupies a significant place in the Shakespeare canon, marking the transition from the earlier history plays dominated by civil war and stark power to a more nuanced repres…
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind…
Pedro Lemebel desafía todo intento catalogador. "Irónico, sarcástico, salvajemente paródico, cursi, relamido, retorcido y, ademas, tierno, divertido y siempre intenso, abrumadoramente lírico," este es…
« Une question s’est imposée au centre de ma vie, elle a concentré toutes mes réflexions, occupé tous les moments où j’étais seul avec moi-même : comment est-ce que je pouvais prendre ma revanche sur …
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice: T here’s no right way to keep a diary, but if there’s an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it.
"The ghosts of today don’t live in castles or stately homes, they’re in normal houses and workplaces, witnessed by people just like you and me. But are they the dead returning from the 'undiscovered c…
Two luminous, tender stories from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers, showing how childhood memories, dreams and fleeting encounters shape our lives.
