Art et littérature

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley....

Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a modern American classic....

Pendant presque 25 ans, la journaliste Isabelle Richer a suivi les procès les plus marquants et les plus significatifs à titre de correspondante au palais de justice de Montréal....

David Sedaris' new collection of essays - including live recordings! - tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes...

Between 1785 and 1812, a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births)....

It’s 2008, and it’s been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijin crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. The economy is in shambles, Jake is off the police beat but still chain-smoking, and Tadamasa Goto, the most powerful boss in the Japanese organized crime world, has been banished.

In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. He records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India"....

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and the Years of Lyndon Johnson series: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books....

The highly anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art....

Blake Butler and Molly Brodak instantly connected, fell in love, married, and built a life together. Nearly three years into their marriage, grappling with mental illness and a lifetime of trauma, Molly took her own life.