"No Foreign Lands" is the first publication to examine in depth the conceptual underpinnings of Doig's oeuvre. Particular attention is given to the importance of motifs, themes and variations in his work, explored in over 200 paintings and works on paper from the past 13 years, among them new works never before published.
Alice Neel, Uptown' explores Neel's interest in the extraordinary diversity of twentieth century New York City and the people amongst whom she lived. The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely-published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School in Harlem. Other figures include neighbors and acquaintances, such as a ballet dancer; a young art student; a taxi driver; a traveling businessman; a local boy (Georgie Arce) who ran errands for Neel and who sat for her on several occasions; and other children and their families
White Girls, Hilton Als’s first book since The Women fourteen years ago, finds one of The New Yorker's boldest cultural critics deftly weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature, art, and music with fearless insights on race, gender, and history. The result is an extraordinary, complex portrait of "white girls," as Als dubs them—an expansive but precise category that encompasses figures as diverse as Truman Capote and Louise Brooks, Malcolm X and Flannery O’Connor. In pieces that hairpin between critique and meditation, fiction and nonfiction, high culture and low, the theoretical and the deeply personal, Als presents a stunning portrait of a writer by way of his subjects, and an invaluable guide to the culture of our time.
Growing up in a lace-curtain Irish suburb of Boston, secretly trying on his sister's dresses and spending his evenings after school in the city's chicest boutiques, Cunningham dreamed of a life dedicated to fashion. When he arrived in New York in 1948, he reveled in people-watching. He became a photographer for The New York Times, and after two style mavens took Cunningham under their wing he made a name for himself as a designer. Taking on the alias William J.-- because designing under his family's name would have been a disgrace to his parents--he became one of the era's most outlandish and celebrated hat designers, catering to movie stars, heiresses, and artists alike. Written with his infectious joy and one-of-a-kind voice, this memoir was polished, neatly typewritten, and safely stored away until after his death in 2016 -- adapted from jacket.
Inspektor Romero da Silva ist der einzige noch lebende Mensch, der von Judith Rashleighs Taten weiß. Die Ermittlungen um ihr erstes Opfer, Cameron Fitzpatrick, sind im Sande verlaufen – doch da Silva hat sich geschworen, Judith irgendwann zu überführen. Und tatsächlich gelingt es ihm, sie aufzuspüren. Zwar kann er seine Anschuldigungen nicht beweisen, aber er hat dennoch die Macht, Judith zu zerstören. Und das wird er tun – es sei denn, Judith lässt sich auf einen gefährlichen und verruchten Deal ein …
Jede dieser frühesten Geschichten von Truman Capote vermag zu überraschen, zeigen sie doch alle bereits die Handschrift des großen Stilisten. Denn seit Capote zehn war, wusste er, dass er Schriftsteller werden will, und während seiner Zeit an der High School schulte er sich täglich an seiner Schreibmaschine im Handwerk des Schreibens. In seinen damals entstandenen Short Storys schuf er sich sein eigenes, fantasievolles Universum, das, anders als man es bei einem Teenager vermuten würde, von Figuren bevölkert ist, die nur wenig mit den Erfahrungen eines Schülers zu tun haben. All diese lebendigen und eigenwilligen Charaktere, die eindringlichen Bilder, die schnörkellos glänzende Sprache und die erzählerische Kraft lassen schon im jungen Truman Capote die ganz besondere Stimme des älteren Capote erkennen.