Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
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A luminous memoir from the award-winning author of The Vagrants and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers...
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Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time
Vladimir Nabokov and Gennady Barabtarlo
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Nabokov's dream diary, published for the first time--and placed in biographical and literary context...
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The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir
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For readers of Room and The Glass Castle, an astonishing memoir of one woman rising above an...
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Medusa: In the Mirror of Time
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Medusa, literally, petrifies: her face turned the ancients to stone. For Perseus and his patriarchal...
The Life of Ibn Hanbal
Abu al-Faraj 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ali Ibn al-Jawzi, Garth Fowden and Michael Cooperson
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Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241 H/855 AD), renowned for his profound knowledge of hadiths-the reports of...
Eve Arnold: Magnum Legacy
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Eve Arnold (1912 - 2012) was born to a poor immigrant family in Philadelphia and became a...
Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered
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A genius immortalized her. A French king paid a fortune for her. An emperor coveted her. Every year...
Alfred Jarry: A Pataphysical Life
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When Alfred Jarry died in 1907 at the age of thirty-four, he was a legendary figure in Paris -- but...
Ali: A Life
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When the frail, trembling figure of Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic flame in Atlanta in 1996, a TV...