In March 1961, Professor Richard Alpert – later renamed Ram Dass – held appointments in four departments at Harvard University. He published books, drove a Mercedes and regularly vacationed in the Caribbean. By most societal standards, he had achieved great success... And yet he couldn’t escape the feeling that something was missing. Psilocybin and LSD changed that. During a p...(展开全部)

The high-spirited correspondence between New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee Although Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee had been reading each other’s books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and,...(展开全部)

保罗·奥斯特： 小说家、诗人、剧作家、译者、电影导演，被视为美国当代最勇于创新的小说家之一。1947年出生于新泽西州的纽渥克市，从哥伦比亚大学毕业后曾在法国生活数年。 J.M.库切： 南非当代著名小说家，被评论界认为是当代南非最重要的作家之一。曾两度获得布克奖，并于2003年获得诺贝尔文学奖。 1940年出生于南非开普敦，现居澳大利亚。

The high-spirited correspondence between New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee Although Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee had been reading each other’s books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and,...(展开全部)

From one of the great comic innovators, the long-awaited fulfillment of a pioneering comic vision. Richard McGuire’s Here is the story of a corner of a room and of the events that have occurred in that space over the course of hundreds of thousands of years. (With full-color illustrations throughout.)

Here is Richard McGuire's unique graphic novel based on the legendary 1989 comic strip of the same name. Richard McGuire's groundbreaking comic strip Here was published under Art Spiegelman's editorship at Raw in 1989. Built in six pages of interlocking panels, dated by year, it collapsed time and space to tell the story of the corner of a room - and its inhabitants - between t...(展开全部)

An exciting collection of poems by Wislawa Szymborska. When Here was published in Poland, reviewers marveled, “How is it that she keeps getting better?” These twenty-seven poems, as rendered by prize-winning translators Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak, are among her greatest ever. Whether writing about her teenage self, microscopic creatures, or the upsides to living on ...(展开全部)

For Now is the result of film-maker Michael Almereyda's year-long rummage through the Eggleston archives, a remarkable collection of heretofore unseen images spanning four decades of work by one of our seminal artists. Unusual in its concentration on family and friends, the book highlights an air of offhand intimacy, typical of Eggleston and typically surprising. Afterword by M...(展开全部)

Drawing power from magazines and newspapers to ads, websites, album covers, and even mobile phone wallpaper, illustration is a crucial element in visual communication today. With unlimited creative possibilities, illustration is as unbound as imagination itself; whether it's a simple pencil drawing, an ornate airbrushed painting, or a computer-generated image, an illustration s...(展开全部)

今まで誰も読んだことがない文学 誰も見たことがないアート まったく新しい哲学 がここにある 窓と作りつけの暖炉のほかには何もない部屋、左上には2014年という数字。ページをめくると、1957・1942・2007……と様々な年代の同じ空間が現れ、さらに異なった年代の断片が共存・混在していく。そして紀元前30億50万年から22175年まで、ある家族の記憶の数々が地球の歴史と一体となって圧倒的なビジュアルで奏でられていく――リチャード・マグワイア『ヒア』はある部屋の一角の物語であり、地球の黎明期から遥かな未来まで、この空間で起こる無数の出来事の物語である。コミック形式の画期的なヴィジョンの完成形として、このジャンルの最大の発明家の一人が送りだす、まったく新しい文学、究極のグラフィック・ノヴェル/アート・ブック、そして深遠なる哲学の書にして驚異の書物がついに...(展开全部)