Taiwanese born, Ang Lee (b. 1954) has produced diverse films in his award-winning body of work. Sometimes working in the West, sometimes in the East, he creates films that defy easy categorization and continue to amaze audiences worldwide. Lee has won an Academy Award two times for Best Director―the first Asian to win―for films as different as a small drama about gay cowboys in...(展开全部)

Pioneer avant-garde filmmaker, poet and artist Jonas Mekas (born 1922) was the barometer of the New York art scene in the 1960s and ‘70s. His interviews with Andy Warhol, Stan Brakhage, Susan Sontag, John Cassavetes, Carolee Schneemann, Yvonne Rainer, Claes Oldenburg, Kenneth Anger and Michael Snow, among many other avant-garde artists and filmmakers for his weekly column in th...(展开全部)

"I always compare filmmaking to cooking. Shooting is like buying the groceries. You buy all kinds of ingredients and the better ingredients you get, the better chance you have of making the movie you want."--Ang Lee, from Speaking in Images Speaking in Images offers an engaging and rare collection of interviews with the directors who have changed the face of Chinese and intern...(展开全部)

白睿文（Berry,M.），1974年生于美国芝加哥，哥伦比亚大学现代中国文学与电影博士，也是留美汉学家王德威的学生，现任职于加州大学圣芭芭拉分校东亚系副教授，主要研究领域为当代华语文学、电影、流行文化和翻译学。著作除本书外，还有《痛史：现代中国文学界与电影的历史创伤》（即将出版）。中英译作有王安忆《长恨歌》、余华《活着》、叶兆言《一九三七年的爱情》、张大春《我妹妹》与《野孩子》，正在翻译舞鹤的《余生》。

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), one of the indisputably great writers of the twentieth century, was born in Buenos Aires. Never having been awarded the Nobel Prize, which his readers worldwide believed he deserved, this story writer, poet, essayist, and man of letters died at age eighty-six. This anthology of interviews with him features more than a dozen conversations that cove...(展开全部)

Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties and ...(展开全部)

From one of the Observer's Rising Stars of 2017, a high-risk, highbrow and intimate novel – and one of the most anticipated works of fiction this year. Features Frances, Bobbi, Nick and Melissa, four characters who ask each other endless questions. As their relationships unfold, in person and online, they discuss sex and friendship, art and literature, politics and gender, and,...(展开全部)

A memoir by the former vice president of Yugoslavia describing three visits to Moscow and his encounters there with Stalin. Index. Translated by Michael B. Petrovich.

密洛凡·德热拉斯（一译吉拉斯）（1912-）南斯拉夫著名政治活动家，早年追随铁托革命，密切共事，一起领导南斯拉夫人民的反法西斯武装斗争。他曾担任过南联盟副总统、南共政治局委员、中央书记等重要职务，是南共主要领导人之一。1953年以后，吉拉斯主张在南斯拉夫实行多党派竞争的民主制，成为党内异见人士，与铁托决裂；因为他坚持不可妥协的“人类个人精神的自由，批评南斯拉夫党内的斯大林思想，被撤销所有职务，于1956年11月被捕，判刑三年。吉拉斯身陷囹圄期间，他在入狱前写的《新阶级》一书从南斯拉夫神秘地偷带到西方出版，“罪加一等”，延长了十年刑期。1961年1月，南当局提前释放了吉拉斯。 作为党内反对派和著名政论家，吉拉斯以言获罪，亦因此而名世。《新阶级》在西方出版后，半年之内就再版了十次；中译本也在1963年由世界知识出版社出版，内部发行。1981年5月，中共中...(展开全部)

Gustav Janouch met Franz Kafka, the celebrated author of The Metamorphosis, as a seventeen-year-old fledgling poet. As Francine Prose notes in her wonderful preface, “they fell into the habit of taking long strolls through the city, strolls on which Kafka seems to have said many amazing, incisive, literary, and per- things to his companion and interlocutor, the teenage Boswell ...(展开全部)