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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams—"a blazing, unputdownable memoir" (Mary Karr, author of Lit)—"piercing, intimate" (Time Magazine). Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices—a scribe of the real, the true, the complex. She has been compared to Joan Didion and Susan Sontag—acclaimed for her powerful thinking, deep feeling, and electric prose.

Le trash est une esthétique encore très peu étudiée en littérature : encore trop mal aimée et mal comprise, elle serait de mauvais goût et indigne d'analyse.

Dans Visions robotiques et extraterrestres. André Caron nous propose une exploration fascinante de la manière dont des réalisateurs ont utilisé des effets visuels pour illustrer la vision des robots, des cyborgs, des Intelligences Artificielles (IA) ou des extraterrestres, afin de la distinguer de celle des êtres humains.

"Il était essentiel que j'écrive ce livre : une manière d'accueillir ce qui est arrivé, et de répondre à la violence par l'art." Pour la première fois, Salman Rushdie s'exprime sans concession sur l'attaque au couteau dont il a été victime le 12 août 2022 aux États-Unis, plus de trente ans après la fatwa prononcée contre lui. Le romancier lève le voile sur la longue et douloureuse traversée pour se reconstruire après un acte d'une telle violence ; jusqu'au miracle d'une seconde chance.

Quarante ans plus tard, que reste-t-il à dire sur Alien? Le film n'est plus seulement cette œuvre culte et unique ayant choqué l'auditoire de son époque; il s'est transformé en une colonie de récits épars qui se sont infiltrés dans toutes les sphères médiatiques et culturelles. Xénomorphe est un voyage au cœur de cet univers de fiction explorant les mutations de la franchise Alien, du cinéma au jeu vidéo en passant par la bande dessinée et la littérature.

New York Times editors’ choice • The captivating, deeply reported true story of how one of the most notorious novels ever written—Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom—landed at the heart of one of the biggest scams in modern literary history. “Reading The Curse of the Marquis de Sade, with the Marquis, the sabotage of rare manuscript sales, and a massive Ponzi scheme at its center, felt like a twisty waterslide shooting through a sleazy and bizarre landscape. This book is wild.”—Adam McKay, Academy Award–winning filmmaker.

Named one of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books by The Modern Library and The Guardian • With surgical precision, Janet Malcolm dissects the famous case of journalist Joe McGinniss and murderer Jeffrey MacDonald. A riveting exploration of the uneasy dynamic between writers and their subjects and a must-read for anyone intrigued by journalism, the complexities of human nature, and true crime • Malcolm deftly analyzes the real-life lawsuit of Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, against Joe McGinniss, the author of Fatal Vision.

A groundbreaking and thorough examination of the trauma caused by the media covering crimes, both to victims and journalists, from a respected journalist and victim advocate. In The Trauma Beat, an eye-opening combination of investigative journalism and memoir, former big-city crime reporter Tamara Cherry calls on her award-winning skills as a journalist to examine the impact of the media on trauma survivors and the impact of trauma on members of the media.

New York Times Bestseller — National Book Award Winner — From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage—and a life, in good times and bad—that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock.

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick. "I had been so engaged by Ann Patchett's multifaceted story, so lured in by her confiding voice, that I forgot I was on the job. [...] As the best personal essays often do, Patchett's is a two-way mirror, reflecting both the author and her readers."—New York Times Book Review.