In this biography, travel book and memoir, Robert Dessaix looks at the life and work of the great Russian author Turgenev and sees the moment when our idea of love changed.
Introducing an exciting, profoundly transformational system from Thomas J. Leonard to reorient one's approach to life and help attract success, happiness, and fulfilment.
Kim Phuc was nine years old in 1972. Severely burned by napalm, she ran from her burning village and her dramatic escape was famously captured on film. Denise Chong relates Kim's experience and recovery in this astonishing biography and history of America's shameful war.
The author of One Good Turn turns to the subject of Andrea Palladio, the Shakespeare of Renaissance architects, who gave us the word 'Palladian' but about whom little is known.
Freud, dying of cancer, has fled from Vienna to London. Cared for by his biographer, Freud explores the city of Woolf and Eliot, of bankers, fishwives and travelling tradesmen, considering everything in the light of his desire to explain the irrationality of human behaviour.
In 1938, Francis Phelan, a murderer, is reduced to flop-houses and hobo jungles. Returning to Albany at the end of the Depression, he roams the familiar streets with his hobo pal Helen, trying to make peace with the ghosts of the past and present.
The brilliant account of the Nixon era, from his 1968 election to his spectacular 1974 demise, now in paperback.
Based on the A.V. Club column, My Year of Flops is Head Writer Nathan Rabin's romp through the most notorious movies in cinematic history.