Arts & Literature

This basic, one-volume study of Johann Sebastian Bach combines a sensitive biographical sketch with a detailed analysis of each of his major types of compos...

An up close and personal portrait of a legendary filmmaker, theater director, and comedian, drawing on candid conversations with his closest friends in sho...

Jack-the-lad, wheeler-dealer, and international playboy (just ask the manageress of El Sid's, Torremolinos, 1978), this was a man destined for greatness. On...

Michael Palin. Includes Index.Categories: Humor & EntertainmentTelevision

From the author of the acclaimed Everybody Was So Young, the definitive and major biography of the great choreographer and Broadway legend Jerome RobbinsTo...

"Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey’s account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory.”--George Packer, The Atlantic An authoritative, wide-ranging, and incred...

A major new biography of the Nobel Prize–winning playwright whose brilliantly original plays revolutionized American theaterFinalist for the Los Angeles ...

Gathers Classic Short Stories By Such Authors As Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, John Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, And Anton Chek...

Mick Foley is a nice man, a family man who loves amusement parks and eating ice cream in bed. So how to explain those Japanese death matches in rings with e...

#1 New York Times Bestseller * The Compelling, Inspiring, And Comically Sublime Story Of One Man's Coming-of-age, Set During The Twilight Of Apartheid And T...

Draws On Interviews With Producers And Fans To Present A Behind-the-scenes Look At The Reality Television Phenomenon And Explores The Show's Cultural Influe...

“I remember Sarah asking me, when I’d just begun therapy with her, what I looked for in a man. After a few moments of silent, tense deliberation I had...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe BELOVED STAR OF FRIENDS takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles wi...

Melissa Joan Hart explained it all-from dating to bullies-in her groundbreaking role as Clarissa Darling on Clarissa Explains It All. She cast a spell on m...

Son Of The Famous Thomas Mann, Homosexual, Drug-addicted, And Forced To Flee From His Fatherland, The Gifted Writer Klaus Mann's Comparatively Short Life Wa...

Under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson became a legend for his children's books, which broke the constraints of Victorian moralism. Thi...

The New York Times bestseller about two guys who went out for coffee and dreamed up Seinfeld—“A wildly entertaining must-read not only for Seinfeld fans...

A Memoir Of Novelist Martin Amis And His Life, Son Of Novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Explores His Relationship With His Father. Reflects On The Disappearanc...

An Account Of Dr. Johnson's Dramatic Personal Life, Monumental Genius, And Boundless Literary Activities And Impact Follows Him From Poverty And Hack Work, ...

Here, Celebrated Drama Critic John Lahr Gives Intimate Access To The Mind Of One Of The Most Brilliant Dramatists Of His Century, Whose Plays Reshaped The A...

Amazon.com Review\An Amazon Best Book of December 2022: Rob Delaney is known for his laugh-out-loud performance on Catastrophe, but this memoir isn’t abou...

Berlioz. Vaughan Williams. Schubert and Schumann. Mozart after the Jupiter Symphony, Bach beyond the Brandenburg Concertos, opera after The Magic Flute. In...

Many musicians sing about heartache, despair, and confusion, but few have experienced those feelings more intensely than James Taylor, who rose from a child...

Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times, The Pianist is now a major motion picture directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody...

frank Mccourt's Glorious Childhood Memoir, angela's Ashes, Has Been Loved And Celebrated By Readers Everywhere For Its Spirit, Its Wit And Its Profound Hum...

The great British mystery novelist P. D. James, otherwise known as the Queen of Crime, has redefined the genre over a career spanning close to forty years. ...

The first and only full-scale and definitive biography of the most important composer-lyricist in musical theater today. Drawing on personal conversations...

From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of...

Nigel Nicolson. Pts. 1 And 3 By V. Sackville-west. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 219) And Index.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Arts & L...

The autobiography of the hip-hop and rap star, television actor, and positive role model details his career, childhood, private life, public service, and vi...

“The world has a way of defining you if you don’t know who you are before you get out there.” ―Candace Cameron BureAs a woman in today’s world, yo...

A revealing account of Led Zepplin's 1975 North American tour including all- new interviews with-and insider information about-the band, from the bestselli...

New York Times Bestseller Tina Turner—the Long-reigning Queen Of Rock & Roll And Living Legend—sets The Record Straight About Her Illustrious Career...

From ex-aide to President Donald Trump, comes a tell-all describing her time in the White House--Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & G...

LIVING THE DREAM Duck calls—though the source of his livelihood—are not what makes Phil Robertson the man he is today. When asked what matters in his ...

An updated and expanded edition of this perennial favorite, tracing the line of composers from Monteverdi to the tonalists of the 1990s. In this new editio...

For more than fifty years, Geoffrey Hartman has been a pivotal figure in the humanities. In his first book, in 1954, he helped establish the study of Roman...

Gerald Clarke. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [602]-608.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Arts & LiteratureAuthors

Award-winningfilm historian Patrick McGilligan follows hisacclaimed biographies of Alfred Hitchcock and Oscar Micheauxwith a revelatory look at the life of ...

Pigeonholed In Popular Memory As A Jazz Age Epicurean, A Playboy, And An Emblem Of The Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald Was At Heart A Moralist Struck B...

The fullest, most textural, most accurate--most human--account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life--based on extensive new research and newly discover...

From the biographer who knew Norman Mailer for decades comes the definitive, authorized portrait of the eminent novelist, journalist, and controversial pub...

The Toronto Star recently called Farley Mowat, the author of thirty-eight books that have sold more than fourteen million copies in twenty-four languages o...

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography ALA Stonewall Honor Book Finalist for Jam...

By Antwone Quenton Fisher And Mim Eichler Rivas.Categories: Science & MathEssays & Commentary

During A Seven-decade Career That Spanned From 19th Century Vienna To 1920s Broadway To The Golden Age Of Hollywood, Three-time Academy Award Winner Max Ste...

An incredible retrospective of Taylor Swift's record-breaking The Eras Tour!27 landmark cityscapes from the world-famous The Eras Tour tour Fun facts about ...

Tiffany Haddish is back with her highly anticipated new essay collection, I Curse You With Joy.It's been a minute. Readers last sat down with Tiffany in her...