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বিংশ শতাব্দীর প্রগতিশীল বঙ্গসংস্কৃতির আকাশে অন্যতম উজ্জ্বল এক নক্ষত্রের নাম - সলিল চৌধুরী। চল্লিশ থেকে নব্বই...

শুরু ভালো যার, শেষ ভালো তার। রানী হতে পারেন অনেকেই। কিন্তু রানীমা হতে পারেন ক'জন? উত্তরাধিকারসূত্রে অপুত্রক...

'প্ৰিয় মানুহ প্ৰিয় কথা' হৈছে জ্নপ্ৰিয় কথাশিল্পী তথা সাংবাদিক অনুৰাধা শৰ্মা পূজাৰীৰ দ্বাৰা লিখিত কেতবোৰ...

ভাৰতত সংবাদ পত্ৰৰ ইতিহাস দুশ বছৰৰো অধিক পুৰণি। গণতন্ত্ৰৰ চতুৰ্থ স্তম্ভৰূপে পৰিগণিত সংবাদ মাধ্যম হৈছে সমাজৰ...

Este livro reúne depoimentos exclusivos e intimistas de grandes personalidades respondendo à seguinte pergunta: Se a viagem no tempo fosse uma possibilidade, o que você diria ao seu jovem eu? Elas refletem sobre o que teria sido bom saber antes e lembram aqueles momentos...

Imagine que um amigo seu é músico e escritor conhecido mundialmente – como Neil Peart, baterista e letrista da lendária banda de rock Rush. A cada dois ou três meses, ele envia para você uma carta cheia de grandes sacadas, ricamente ilustrada com fotos, falando...

No terceiro e último volume da série VIVER NÃO PODE SER SÓ ISSO, Lucão se joga às histórias cotidianas que viveu e viu acontecer para relatar aos leitores as miudezas, as sutilezas, o que não se costuma ver. E de todas as situaç...

"Viver não pode ser só isso" é uma investigação lítero-poético-filosófica sobre o que é o viver. Com crônicas que passeiam pelas memórias do autor, desde a infância até os dias atuais, Lucão nos convida a viajar pelos quintais das casas dos avós, pela infância saborosa nas...

President Barack Obama received ten thousand letters a day from his constituents. This is the story of the private and profound relationship with letter writers that shaped his presidency. Their voices combine to reveal a diary of a nation. Every evening for eight years, at his request...

„Wenn das jemand liest, dann wir!“ Gregor Gysi „Ich spreche Marx, weil ich so aussehe, und da ist dann für Gregor Gysi nur noch Engels übrig geblieben, obwohl er nicht so aussieht“ Harry Rowohlt Es erwartet Sie eine spannende Lesung aus den persönlichen Briefen und Texten der...

Sheila Heti collected half a million words from a decade’s worth of journals, put them in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She spent the next ten years cutting and refining, and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and sorrow. These are her alphabetical diaries.

Sourced from Pierre-Esprit Radisson’s journals, which are the best firsthand accounts of 17th-century Canada, Bush Runner tells the extraordinary true story of this protean 17th-century figure, a man more trading partner than colonizer, a peddler of goods and not worldview - and with it offers a fresh perspective on the world in which he lived.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'How much I learned from this brave man... The ultimate Holocaust testimony.' HEATHER MORRIS, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey With an Afterword by JOHN BOYNE, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas _______________ Eddy de Wind, a Dutch doctor...

Final words and heartfelt remembrances from bestselling author Pat Conroy take center stage in this winning nonfiction collection, supplemented by touching pieces from Conroy’s many friends. This new volume of Pat Conroy’s nonfiction brings together some of the most charming interviews...

Fernando Pessoa est né en 1888 à Lisbonne. Considéré avant tout comme un poète, Pessoa est une forme littéraire à lui tout seul. Lorsqu’il invente ses différents hétéronymes, il dit découvrir en lui de nouvelles écritures, presque contradictoires les unes avec les autres. Cet...

Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, 44-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next 27 years in jail. During his 10,052 days of incarceration, Mandela wrote hundreds of letters to unyielding prison authorities, fellow activists, government officials, and, most memorably, his courageous wife, Winnie, and his five children. Now, 255 of these letters, a majority of which were previously unpublished, provide the most intimate portrait of Mandela since Long Walk to Freedom.

Winner of the 2015 Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album Following up the phenomenal success of her headline-making New York Times bestseller I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me, the unstoppable Joan Rivers is at it again. When her daughter Melissa gives her a diary for Christmas, at first Joan is...

I marts 2020 går Pelle Hvenegaard i gang med et simpelt, men også lettere uoverskueligt projekt: at skrive 1 digt hver aften i 100 dage, ud fra de følelser, tanker og oplevelser, der måtte presse sig på. Skæbnen vil, at corona-epidemien 10 dage inde i eksperimentet lukker Danmark ned...

”I dag fik din far og jeg at vide, at du bliver en pige. Hvor er det dog vidunderligt. Jeg har altid været yderst tilfreds med at være pige, så jeg glæder mig meget på dine vegne. Jeg har ikke en bestemt idé om, hvordan piger, modsat drenge, skal leve deres liv. I min familie har...

En autentisk roadtripfortælling gennem en families historie fra Lolland til Ozarks i den amerikanske delstat Missouri og tilbage igen. Forfatteren og hans datter befinder sig ved bogens begyndelse i hillbilly country på roadtrip langt fra turistruterne på jagt efter en 100 år gammel...