A meditation on the big-box superstore, from 2022 Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux. “A dryly charming look at the way the French live now, through the sharp eyes of its most acclaimed chronicler.”—Kirkus Reviews For half a century, French writer Annie Ernaux has restlessly explored stories and subjects often considered unworthy of artistic reflection. In this exquisite meditation,...(展开全部)

Rarely has anyone photographed reality in such an unprettified way as Boris Mikhailov. He captures the unadorned and the natural; in pictures devoid of aesthetic exhaltation, he concentrates on people and their living conditions. On his journeys through Russia, Germany, and his Ukrainian homeland, Mikhailov has equally observed the poor, the well-to-do, the outcasts, and the ho...(展开全部)

John Berger broke new ground with his penetrating writings on life, art and how we see the world around us. Here he explores how the ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in the modern consumer age, with the animals that used to be at the centre of our existence now marginalized and reduced to spectacle. Throughout history, some books have changed the worl...(展开全部)

Pete the Cat goes walking down the street wearing his brand-new white shoes. Along the way, his shoes change from white to red to blue to brown to WET as he steps in piles of strawberries, blueberries, and other big messes But no matter what color his shoes are, Pete keeps movin' and groovin' and singing his song . . . because it's all good.

Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits—an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother in them)—had earned him the label “social deviant.” No guidance came from his mother, who conversed with light fixtu...(展开全部)

William Shakespeare lived at a remarkable time—a period we now recognize as the first phase of the Scientific Revolution. New ideas were transforming Western thought, the medieval was giving way to the modern, and the work of a few key figures hinted at the brave new world to come: the methodical and rational Galileo, the skeptical Montaigne, and—as Falk convincingly argues—Sha...(展开全部)

Which of us, when finding ourselves in the presence of a painting, has not sensed that we lack the keys to decipher it? We feel an emotional response, but the work still seems to evade our understanding. Francoise Barbe-Gall combines a nuanced understanding of the way viewers respond to paintings with a rich knowledge of their context and circumstances of their creation. The re...(展开全部)

【美】G·爱德华·格里芬，畅销书作家、学者、电视评论员、纪录片制作人，美国传媒公司总裁。出生于1931年，毕业于密西根大学，1968年曾担任副总统候选人柯蒂斯·李梅的撰稿人，后主要从事写作。曾担任《新美国人》特约编辑，主要作品有《恐惧的大师》《资本阴谋》《没有癌症的世界》等。

【美】G·爱德华·格里芬，畅销书作家、学者、电视评论员、纪录片制作人，美国传媒公司总裁。出生于1931年，毕业于密西根大学，1968年曾担任副总统候选人柯蒂斯·李梅的撰稿人，后主要从事写作。曾担任《新美国人》特约编辑，主要作品有《恐惧的大师》《资本阴谋》《没有癌症的世界》等。

【美】G·爱德华·格里芬，畅销书作家、学者、电视评论员、纪录片制作人，美国传媒公司总裁。出生于1931年，毕业于密西根大学，1968年曾担任副总统候选人柯蒂斯·李梅的撰稿人，后主要从事写作。曾担任《新美国人》特约编辑，主要作品有《恐惧的大师》《资本阴谋》《没有癌症的世界》等。