It is where Fidel Castro raised money to overthrow Batista and where two generations of Castro's enemies have raised armies to overthrow him, so far without success. It is where the bitter opera of Cu…
From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse int…
Perché le matite gialle vendono di più delle altre? Perché Flaubert veste di blu Emma Bovary? Perché nei dipinti di Mondrian il verde non c'è mai? E perché invece Hitchcock lo usa in abbondanza?
Intre…
Shelve Cromorama: Come il colore ha cambiato il nostro sguardo
In his last book, YOGA FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO DO IT, Geoff Dyer confessed that not only did he not take pictures in the course of his travels but that he did not own a camera. With charac…
Journalist, party girl, bookworm, artist, muse: by the time she’d hit thirty, Eve Babitz had played all of these roles. Immortalized as the nude beauty facing down Duchamp and as one of Ed Ruscha’s Fi…
15 Views of Miami is a literary portrait of the Magic City told in fifteen loosely linked stories by fifteen Miami authors. Sprawling from Hialeah to Homestead, from Wynwood to Stiltsville, these stor…
Questa rievocazione dei fatti di Bologna del 1874 (un tentativo insurrezionale ispirato alle dottrine anarchiche di Bakunin) non solo è convincente, condotta con garbata ironia ma senza sottrarsi al d…
Nella notte del 24 febbraio 2022, Vladimir Putin ha dato il via all'invasione dell'Ucraina e ha cambiato per sempre il mondo che conoscevamo. La famigerata "operazione militare speciale", come viene d…
Shelve Guerre: Storia dei conflitti del mondo moderno. La guerra in Ucraina
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. Spanning from the Great Depression to the turbulent…
The harrowing story of the rise and fall of one of America's most popular destination cities--rife with police brutality, a drug epidemic, and a bulging refugee crisis--Miami 1980 is a riveting blend …
Shelve The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980
As Pankaj Mishra remarked in The Nation, one of the remarkable qualities of Bolano's short stories is that they can do the "work of a novel." The Insufferable Gaucho contains tales bent on returning t…
The Closing of the American Mind, a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country's most distinguished po…
I rapporti tra il cinema e le arti visive, idealmente collocati al punto d'incontro dei «tre spazi» analizzati da Eric Rohmer: pittorico, architettonico, filmico.
The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long…
In New York Times bestselling The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book) and Just One Catch, delves deep into the…
Shelve The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion
Il mondo contemporaneo è terrorizzato dalla sofferenza. La paura del dolore è così pervasiva e diffusa da spingerci a rinunciare persino alla libertà pur di non doverlo affrontare. Il rischio, secondo…
Shelve La società senza dolore: Perché abbiamo bandito la sofferenza dalle nostre vite
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. In Rawi Hage's unforgettable novel, winner of the 2008 IMPAC Prize, this famous quote by Camus becomes a touchstone for two y…
The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have given us the definitive version of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s strikingly original short novels, The Double and The Gambler. The Double…
When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face-down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her good-for-nothing son and his seductive teenage daughter. In The Drowning Pool, Lew Archer takes …
