Títulos em Arte e Literatura

Elena Ferrante is the best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend, now an HBO original series. Collected here for the first time are the seeds of future novels, the timely reflections of this internationally beloved storyteller, the abiding preoccupations of a writer who has been called “one of the great novelists of our time” (New York Times).

When Hua Hsu first meets Ken in a Berkeley dorm room, he hates him. A frat boy with terrible taste in music, Ken seems exactly like everyone else. For Hua, who makes zines and haunts indie record shops, Ken represents all that he defines himself in opposition to – the mainstream. The only thing Hua, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, and Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the US for generations, have in common is that, however they engage with it, American culture doesn’t seem to have a place for either of them.

No dia em que Anthony Doerr e a esposa voltam da maternidade com seus gêmeos recém-nascidos, ele descobre que recebeu um prêmio da Academia Americana de Artes e Letras, o Rome Prize, que inclui ajuda de custo, um apartamento e um estúdio para escrever na Itália. Quatro estações em Roma nasceu das memórias do ano que o autor passou na cidade com a esposa e os filhos.

Nascido na África do Sul, em janeiro de 1892, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien ficou órfão durante a infância e cresceu quase na pobreza. Ele serviu na Primeira Guerra Mundial e sobreviveu à Batalha do Somme, onde perdeu quase todos os seus amigos mais íntimos. Após a guerra, retornou à vida acadêmica, conquistando uma grande reputação como estudioso e professor universitário, e tornando-se, por fim, professor de Inglês em Oxford, onde fez amizade com C.S. Lewis e os outros escritores conhecidos, formando um grupo denominado Os Inklings. Então, de repente, sua vida mudou dramaticamente.

You’re falling through time so all I can do is fall with you. The numbness had set in long before I sat at your bedside. But even with senses impaired as the flight touches down at Belfast City I can somehow still feel the screeching of wheels on tarmac scorching something deep into me. So begins Gary Lightbody's phenomenal companion book to the latest, Snow Patrol’s number one album of the same name. While you don’t have to read it to understand the album, you may want to give the album a wee listen for some parts of the book to make sense.

Marcel Proust came into his own as a novelist comparatively late in life, yet only Shakespeare, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, and Dostoyevsky were his equals when it came to creating characters as memorably human. As biographer Benjamin Taylor suggests, Proust was a literary lightweight before writing his multivolume masterwork In Search of Lost Time, but following a series of momentous historical and personal events, he became—against all expectations—one of the greatest writers of his, and indeed any, era.

Antes de ser um dos escritores mais queridos do Brasil, Pedro Salomão atuou como palhaço na Santa Casa de Misericórdia e no Hospital do Câncer, e viu de perto como é transformador o poder da alegria. Felicidade em copo d'água reúne alguns causos vividos pelo autor e que revelarão aos leitores o que muitos já sabem: nem sempre dá para se preparar para o inesperado, mas é possível encontrar o que mais procuramos onde menos imaginamos—até mesmo em um copo d'água.

“Canal dói?” “O que é que eles fazem no Japão?” “Os Menudos são legais?” Stella Estrela não se dedica a responder nenhum desses questionamentos, mas a apresentar a autora dessa lista tão peculiar de perguntas. Stella nasceu com a síndrome de Williams-Beuren, uma desordem genética rara que impôs, de saída, enormes desafios a ela e a seus pais.

Tash Aw explores the panoramic cultural vitality of modern Asia through his own complicated family story of migration and adaptation, which is reflected in his own face. From a taxi ride in present-day Bangkok, to eating Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1980s Kuala Lumpur, Aw weaves together stories of insiders and outsiders, images from rural villages to megacity night clubs and voices in a dizzying variety of languages, dialects and slangs, to create an intricate and astoundingly vivid portrait of a place caught between the fast-approaching future and a past that won't let go.

Kafka is one of 161 inspired-and inspiring-minds, among them, novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians, who describe how they subtly maneuver the many (self-inflicted) obstacles and (self-imposed) daily rituals to get done the work they love to do, whether by waking early or staying up late; whether by self-medicating with doughnuts or bathing, drinking vast quantities of coffee, or taking long daily walks.

Os talentos que ele cultivou se tornaram conhecidos do mundo todo: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe e vários outros. No entanto, Maxwell Perkins permaneceu um mistério, uma presença nos bastidores que servia a esses autores não só como editor, mas também como crítico, administrador de suas carreiras, financiador, terapeuta, confessionário e amigo.

Ao completar 80 anos, a empresária Costanza Pascolato, considerada a papisa da moda brasileira, revê em A elegância do agora sua trajetória, associando memórias da sua vida a dicas de elegância e estilo. Sem perder charme e ternura, feminista sem fúria, foi à luta para ocupar espaços, defender suas paixões, ser respeitada e conseguir trabalho.

Por quase trinta anos, entre 1969 e 1997, a sociedade brasileira foi desnudada pela escrita espirituosa do jornalista Zózimo Barrozo do Amaral em sua coluna diária no Jornal do Brasil e depois em O Globo. Muito além dos registros sociais, ele oferecia um noticiário que flertava com a economia, a política e o esporte (sua paixão), em um estilo elegante e sem qualquer cerimônia.

War Is Not Just for Heroes rescues the incredible true stories of United States Marine Corps. Written by one marine, Claude R. "Red" Canup, a combat correspondent in the Pacific during World War II, these dispatches and private letters provide insight into the grind of war and ordinary men and women who carried out their duty. Thoughtfully edited and contextualized by a preface and prologue by his daughter, Linda M. Canup Keaton-Lima, War Is Not Just for Heroes combines documentary and biography to provide the human dimensions of those in combat and those who reported out.

Nur elf Monate dauerte die vielleicht bedeutsamste Liebesgeschichte der jüngeren Zeit. Dora Diamant, die lange Zeit Unbekannte an Kafkas Seite, verfügte über eine seltene Weite des Geistes. Als Rebellin ihrer ostjüdisch-orthodoxen Umgebung – sie floh vor dem strengen Vater in die Verheissung des ›aufgeklärten‹ Westens – behielt sie und kultivierte immer den tiefen humanitären Geschmack einer religiösen Musikalität: Das Gefühl einer unverbrüchlichen Verantwortung und das Bestreben zur Identität von Heiligem und Alltäglichem.

El desamor causa sufrimiento, desubicación, incluso ira. Y esto nos ocurre a todos, pero hay una serie de personas, todas ellas artistas (escritores, pintores, escultores, actores, músicos) que encontraron en el dolor que provoca una ruptura la mecha que encendió su creatividad.

Fanny Price, in Mansfield Park, tells her persistent suitor that 'we have all a better guide in ourselves...than any other person can be'. Sometimes, however, we crave external guidance: and when this happens we could do worse than seek it in Jane Austen's own subtle novels. Written to coincide with Austen's 250th birthday, this approachable and intimate work shows why and how—for over half a century—Austen has inspired and challenged its author through different phases of her life.

Tim Franks spent years as the BBC’s Middle East Correspondent covering Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. During that time, he was attacked as a self-hating Jew and as an Islamophobe – as a tool of competing, malign agendas. He always tried to respond with a journalist’s detached curiosity, drawing a clear line between his identity and his work. Up to the point that he asked himself: is that necessary? Beyond the judgments of others: what does it mean to be Jewish?

Невероятная история жизни одного из самых успешных и известных отечественных искусствоведов и выставочных кураторов Зельфиры Трегуловой, рассказанная ею самой – история о том, как девочка из Риги, полюбившая искусство, стала специалистом по искусству ХХ века и директором Третьяковской галереи (с февраля 2015 по февраль 2023 года).

В 1890 году Антон Павлович Чехов, к тому времени уже прославленный писатель, отправился в тяжелое и рискованное путешествие на самый отдаленный край империи — на каторжный Сахалин. Проделав долгий путь через всю Сибирь, он прибыл на остров не как чиновник или журналист, а движимый желанием увидеть истинное положение дел, как живут ссыльные, каторжане и переселенцы, и донести правду до читателей. Результатом глубокого, подлинно научного и человечного исследования длиною в три месяца стал труд «Остров Сахалин», уникальное произведение, сочетающее в себе научную точность и человеческую чуткость.