Miał ledwie dwadzieścia dwa lata, gdy w 1940 roku trafił do obozu. Przesiedział tam pięć lat. Był dzieckiem warszawskiej ulicy, cwaniakiem, od najmłodszych lat zahartowanym w bójkach, obdarzonym dużym sprytem i humorem. Był twardy,...
Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by "one of America's most daring and talented writers." (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
Both Flesh and Not gathers fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all published in book form...
One day in 2009, twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a “flight risk,” and her medical records—chronicling a...
Breaking Bad: Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series, edited by David P. Pierson, explores the contexts, politics, and style of AMC’s original series Breaking Bad. The book’s first section...
While in Japan to observe the filming of one of her novels, Pearl Buck was informed that her husband had died. This book is the deeply affecting story of the period that immediately followed — the grief, fears, doubts, and readjustments that a...
Subjuguée par l’intelligence de son époux, elle se définit comme « la présidente de son fan-club ». Elle dit ne jamais l’influencer mais se contenter de « l’accompagner »… Pourtant, nul ne doute que, pour Emmanuel Macron,...
In this engaging scientific memoir, Kenneth Ford recounts the time when, in his mid-twenties, he was a member of the team that designed and built the first hydrogen bomb. He worked with—and relaxed with—scientific giants of that time such as...