Dramaturge, poétesse, écrivaine, Bernardine Evaristo est née de l'union décriée d'une institutrice anglaise et d'un ouvrier nigérian. Dès son enfance, elle a ressenti dans sa chair ce que signifiaient le racisme ou les inégalités de classe et de genre qui seront à l'origine de tous ses combats.
En partageant ses expériences intimes et son engagement littéraire, elle invite à une réflexion libre et rebelle sur des questions fondamentales telles que le féminisme, la sexualité, le militantisme, le communautarisme ou l'âgisme. Celle qui n'a jamais cessé de questionner les normes et la pensée dominante nous offre dans Manifesto un voyage tumultueux et trépidant dans cette quête qui fut la sienne pour devenir une femme puissante et nous encourager à ne jamais abandonner.
Après le succès d'Assez de bleu dans le ciel, Maggie O'Farrell revient avec un nouveau tour de force littéraire. Poétique, subtile, intense, une oeuvre à part qui nous parle tout à la fois de féminisme, de maternité, de violence, de peur et d'amour, portée par une construction vertigineuse. Une romancière à l'apogée de son talent.
Il y a ce cou, qui a manqué être étranglé par un violeur en Écosse.
Il y a ces poumons, qui ont cessé leur oeuvre quelques instants dans l'eau glacée.
Il y a ce ventre, meurtri par les traumatismes de l'accouchement...
Un beau jour d'octobre 1949, la new-yorkaise Helene Hanff écrit à la librairie Marks & Co., au 84, Charing Cross Road à Londres. Passionnée, un peu fauchée, extravagante, Miss Hanff réclame au libraire Frank Doel des livres pour assouvir son insatiable soif de découvertes. Très vite, leurs échanges laissent place aux confidences et à une relation unique...
L'histoire vraie, émouvante et inoubliable de deux êtres que rapproche l'amour des lettres.
Gay, noir, américain : on a toutes les chances de se tromper en définissant ainsi Hilton Als. Car, en dépit de leur exactitude, l'auteur de White Girls n'a de cesse d'interroger la pertinence de ces catégories censées fonder une identité. Mêlant récits autobiographiques, fiction, critique littéraire, musicale et artistique, les essais qui composent ce livre tracent les contours d'un imaginaire collectif dont l'idéal serait la « fille blanche ».
Truman Capote, Michael Jackson, Flannery O'Connor, André Leon Talley, Basquiat, ou encore la mère de Malcolm X, sont autant de white girls radiographiées par le regard de cet écrivain sensible et impitoyable qui se reconnaît pour seuls maîtres Proust, Joan Didion et James Baldwin.
Une exploration personnelle et incarnée du féminisme, de la sexualité et du pouvoir par celle que l'on surnomme "Emrata", mannequin star aux 28 millions de followers sur Instagram.
Emily Ratajkowski est une mannequin et actrice acclamée, une progressiste politiquement engagée, une entrepreneure à succès, un phénomène mondial grâce aux médias de tous les pays et aux réseaux sociaux, et maintenant, une écrivaine. Devenue mondialement célèbre à l'âge de vingt et un ans, elle a suscité à la fois des éloges et de la fureur, avec l'affichage provocateur de son corps comme une déclaration d'autonomisation féministe. My Body est un ensemble de textes qui relatent des expériences vécues et des souvenirs dans lesquels Emily Ratajkowski décrit la marchandisation de son corps, et de celui des femmes en général. À travers le récit de moments précis de sa vie, elle étudie la fétichisation culturelle de la beauté des femmes et des jeunes filles l'obsession doublée de mépris pour la sexualité féminine, la dynamique perverse des industries de la mode et du cinéma et la zone grise entre le consentement et la violence.
Subtil, déterminé et incisif, My Body marque les débuts d'un écrivain clairvoyant débordant de courage et d'intelligence.
THE NO. 1 BESTSELLERbr>br>BRITISH BOOK AWARDS, NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARbr>br>THE SUNDAY TIMES, MEMOIR OF THE YEARbr>br>BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, EVENING STANDARDbr>br>Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United Statesbr>br>In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her -- from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world''s most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it -- in her own words and on her own terms.br>br>Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations -- and whose story inspires us to do the same.>
'Unmissable . Like chancing upon an oasis, you want to drink it slowly... Subtle, unpredictable, surprising' Guardian Things I Don't Want to Know is the first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood. Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life. With wit, clarity and calm brilliance, she considers how the writer must stake claim to that contested territory as a young woman and shape it to her need. Things I Don't Want to Know is a work of dazzling insight and deep psychological succour, from one of our most vital contemporary writers. 'Superb sharpness and originality of imagination. An inspiring work of writing' Marina Warner
It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother''s coffin as the world watched in sorrow - and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling - and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is a landmark publication full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief. Prince Harry wishes to support British charities with donations from his proceeds from Spare . The Duke of Sussex has donated $1,500,000 to Sentebale, an organisation he founded with Prince Seeiso in their mothers'' legacies, which supports vulnerable children and young people in Lesotho and Botswana affected by HIV/AIDS. Prince Harry will also donate to the non-profit organisation WellChild in the amount of £300,000. WellChild, which he has been Royal patron of for fifteen years, makes it possible for children and young people with complex health needs to be cared for at home instead of hospital, wherever possible.
Née en 1926, mariée en 1947, couronnée reine en 1953, Sa Majesté Elizabeth II s'est pleinement consacrée à ses devoirs pendant plus de soixante ans. TASCHEN rend hommage à son destin remarquable avec cette réédition de Her Majesty, une fabuleuse histoire en photos de sa vie privée et publique. Mêlant tradition, histoire, élégance et culture, l'album retrace la vie de la souveraine, jusqu'à son décès en 2022: son enfance et sa jeunesse, sa courageuse entrée dans l'âge adulte pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, son mariage, la maternité et le couronnement, ses rencontres avec des icônes de leur temps comme les Beatles, Marilyn Monroe et JFK et ses très nombreux périples à l'étranger. Il visite aussi les spectaculaires palais royaux et cède à la liesse contagieuse des mariages et jubilés royaux, et oscille entre l'imposante élégance des portraits officiels et la tendresse et l'humour qui se dégagent de moments plus intimes, en famille. Hommage aux meilleurs photographes de son temps tout autant qu'à leur royal sujet, Her Majesty rassemble les clichés de sommités comme Cecil Beaton, Studio Lisa, Dorothy Wilding, Karsh, Lord Snowdon, David Bailey, Patrick Lichfield, Annie Leibovitz et bien d'autres.
From the twice-Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home : Dazzling, essential, entirely unlike anything else -- a memoir on modern womanhood, rejecting oppressive social expectations and turning instead towards a thrilling, transformative freedom What does it mean to be free - as an artist, a woman, a mother or daughter? And what is the price of that freedom? In this dazzling memoir, Deborah Levy confronts the essential questions of modern womanhood with humour, pragmatism, and profoundly resonant wisdom. Reflecting on the period when she wrote the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Hot Milk - when her mother was dying, her daughters were leaving home, her marriage was coming to an end - she is characteristically eloquent on the social expectations and surreal realities of daily life. And expanding far beyond these bounds, she describes a uniquely frank, wise and thrilling manifesto for female experience: embracing the exhilarating terror of freedom, seeking to understand what that freedom could mean and how it might feel.
From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life -- in good times and bad -- that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. A stunning book of electric honesty and passion.
Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion.
Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, the wide-ranging pieces in this collection include Didion writing about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a visit to San Simeon, and a reunion of WWII veterans in Las Vegas, and about topics ranging from Nancy Reagan to Robert Mapplethorpe to Martha Stewart.
Here are subjects Didion has long written about - the press, politics, California robber baronsac, women, the act of writing, and her own self-doubt. Each piece is classic Didion: incisive and, in new light, stunningly prescient.
Will marche dans Clapham Road. Il doit absolument se procurer sa dose quotidienne d'héroïne avant d'aller travailler. Et il n'a que 57 pence en poche. Nous sommes à Londres, le 6 mai 1986.
Ainsi commence cet extraordinaire récit autobiographique, qui relate cinq moments clés de la vie de son auteur. Car Will, c'est Will Self, éternel enfant terrible d'une littérature britannique qu'il ne cesse de perturber depuis son premier roman, Vice-Versa, jusqu'à sa trilogie «?moderniste?», Parapluie, Requin, Phone.
Qu'est-ce qui pousse cet écrivain, l'un des plus doués de sa génération, à revisiter sa jeunesse?? La nostalgie?? Certainement pas. La honte d'avoir été un junky?? C'est peu probable. À l'instar de Joyce écrivant l'admirable Portrait de l'artiste en jeune homme, Will Self revient à la source même de son oeuvre : la crise existentielle d'où jailliront plus tard des romans pleins d'une énergie sauvage.
Brillant, comique, émouvant, ce livre est un feu d'artifice littéraire unique en son genre.
A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun .
''Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language'' On 10 June 2020, the scholar James Nwoye Adichie died suddenly in Nigeria.
In this tender and powerful essay, expanded from the original New Yorker text, his daughter, a self-confessed daddy''s girl, remembers her beloved father. Notes on Grief is at once a tribute to a long life of grace and wisdom, the story of a daughter''s fierce love for a parent, and a revealing examination of the layers of loss and the nature of grief.
American writer Stephen Crane died in 1900 at the age of 28. In his short, intense life, this burning boy wrote a masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage , as well as other novels, short stories, and dispatches from the front of two wars. His adventurous life took him to the Wild West, Mexico, then to Cuba during the Spanish American War - dodging bullets which killed those around him, and suffering shipwreck on his way home. Fleeing America because of a scandalous love affair, his last 18 months were spent in Britain where he became a close friends of H.G. Wells, Henry James and, especially, Joseph Conrad. Auster ''s intention is to restore Crane to the pantheon of Modernist 20th century authors such as Conrad. Through Auster''s skill as a novelist, Crane leaps off the page, and into the reader''s heart.
''A must-read classic'' Mary Karr ''Trethewey writes elegantly, trenchantly, intimately as well about the fraught history of the south and what it means live at the intersection of America''s struggle between blackness and whiteness. And what, in our troubled republic, is a subject more evergreen?'' Mitchell S. Jackson Natasha Trethewey was born in Mississippi in the 60s to a black mother and a white father. When she was six, Natasha''s parents divorced, and she and her mother moved to Atlanta. There, her mother met the man who would become her second husband, and Natasha''s stepfather.
While she was still a child, Natasha decided that she would not tell her mother about what her stepfather did when she was not there: the quiet bullying and control, the games of cat and mouse. Her mother kept her own secrets, secrets that grew harder to hide as Natasha came of age.
When Natasha was nineteen and away at college, her stepfather shot her mother dead on the driveway outside their home.
With penetrating insight and a searing voice that moves from the wrenching to the elegiac, Memorial Drive is a compelling and searching look at a shared human experience of sudden loss and absence, and a piercing glimpse at the enduring ripple effects of white racism and domestic abuse. Luminous, urgent, and visceral, it cements Trethewey''s position as one of the most important voices in America today.>
'Alderton is Nora Ephron for the millennial generation' Elizabeth Day 'With courageous honesty , Alderton documents the highs and the lows - the sex , the drugs , the nightmare landlords , the heartaches and the humiliations . Deeply funny, sometimes shocking, and admirably open-hearted and optimistic' Daily Telegraph 'A sensitive, astute and funny account of growing up millennial' Observer 'The book we will thrust into our friends' hands . . . that will help heal a broken heart. Alderton's wise words can resonate with women of all ages. She feels like a best friend and your older sister all rolled into one and her pages wrap around you like a warm hug ' Evening Standard 'I loved its truth, self awareness, humour and most of all, its heart-spilling generosity ' Sophie Dahl 'Steeped in furiously funny accounts of one-night stands, ill-advised late-night taxi journeys up the M1, grubby flat-shares and the beauty of female friendships, as Alderton joyfully booze-cruises her way through her twenties ' Metro 'Alderton proves a razor-sharp observer of the shifting dynamics of long term female friendship' Mail on Sunday 'It's so full of life and laughs - I gobbled up this book. Alderton has built something beautiful and true out of many fragments of daftness ' Amy Liptrot
Tells the story of a life's work to find happiness. This book includes stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a tyrant in place of a mother, who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the duster drawer, waiting for Armageddon; and, about the Universe as a Cosmic Dustbin.
THE NO. 2 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, powerful, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humour and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother''s particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother''s tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the east coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, performing gigs with her fledgling band - and meeting the man who would become her husband - her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother''s diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her. Vivacious and plainspoken, lyrical and honest, Michelle Zauner''s voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.
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