Showing results for "Pleasure" in Art & Literature

A new reissue of Philip Hoare's singular biography of Stephen Tennant. ‘Witty and amazing … both scholarly and hilarious at the same time’ John Waters, New York Times Philip Hoare’s fascinating profile of Britain’s most legendary and flamboyant aristocratic aesthete. With unparalleled...

In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as “an oracle among authors”. Here, in these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. 

In the last years of his life, the writer Amos Oz talked regularly with Shira Hadad, who worked closely with him as the editor of his final novel, Judas. These candid, uninhibited dialogues show a side of Oz that few ever saw. What Makes an Apple? presents the most revealing of these conversations in English for the first time, painting an illuminating and disarmingly intimate portrait of a towering literary figure.

Marie-Henri Beyle, más conocido por su seudónimo Stendhal, fue un notable escritor francés del siglo XIX, autor de novelas portentosas como Rojo y negro y La cartuja de Parma. Valorado por su agudo análisis de la psicología de sus personajes y la concisión de su estilo, es considerado uno de los primeros y más importantes literatos del Realismo.