The Shakespearean drama of an unclaimed son

Michael Lindsay-Hogg, a film and Broadway director, recalls his Shakespearean drama of life as the unclaimed son of actor and director Orson Welles in his book Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond.

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This collection examines the 20th-century transformation of the kitchen through the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, featuring a wide variety of design objects, architectural plans, posters, archival photographs and art…

Essayist writes on the pleasure of physical movement

John Casey, winner of the 1989 National Book Award for his novel Spartina, talks about his experience of exercising from middle age into old age in Room for Improvement, a new collection of essays that are a personal and joyful self-portrait of a writer who loves going to extremes.

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A technological revolution has changed the way we see things. The storytelling media employed by Pixar Animation Studios, Samuel Beckett and William Shakespeare differ greatly, yet these creators share a collective fascination with the nebulous boundary between material objects and our imaginative selves.

Letters reveal a more complex Hemingway

Fans who have long been awaiting the chance to take a voyeuristic look into the mind of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers will be thrilled with The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907-1922.

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Located at The Place, Trends Lounge is a bookstore and cafe with a wide selection of books about international art, design and architecture.

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This collection of essays reflects E. H. Gombrich’s preoccupation with the central questions of value and tradition in our culture. His topics include radical proposals for the reform of higher education, an attack on relativism and a plea for the conservation of our cities, alongside thought-provoking and engaging studies of the work of Oskar Kokoschka, Abram Games, Saul Steinberg and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Delicate hothouse flower and social outcast

Jon-Jon Goulian, a middle-class American and grandson of philosopher Sidney Hook, recounts his strange behavior and traces the causes in his memoir The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt.

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A Navy F/A-18 fighter jet gets shot down over Pakistan and its two pilots are tried as war criminals in James Huston’s latest blend of legal and political thrillers.

Hip-hop favorite recalls gangster years

Tracy Marrow, better known as Ice-T, recently collaborated with journalist Douglas Century to publish his memoirs.