Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends, Ila and Hannah. Since then, Alice’s life has spiraled. She lives a haunted existence, selling videos of herself for money, going to parties she hates, drinking herself to sleep. Memories of that night torment Alice, but when Ila asks her to return to the House, to go past the KEEP OUT sign and over the sick earth where teenagers dare each other to venture, Alice knows she must go. Together, Alice and Ila must face the horrors that happened there, must pull themselves apart from the inside out, put their differences aside, and try to rescue Hannah, whom the House has chosen to make its own.

A razor-sharp, bleakly funny exploration of mental health crises, the societal pressures on young women, and toxic sexual and romantic relationships from one of the most exciting new literary voices. Perfect for fans of Sorrow and Bliss or Cleopatra and Frankenstein. When she’s having sex with her boss, Iris likes to have the lights on so he can see how much younger she is than his wife. She likes watching her colleagues eat unhealthy lunches at their desk while her stomach aches with emptiness. She likes coasting at work knowing she’s going to land a big promotion anyway. So why when it arrives does she find herself sprawled on her hallway floor, crying uncontrollably? Why, instead of a sense of triumph, does a crippling depression threaten to overwhelm her? Why does the support and stability of her family and friends feel so suffocating? And why, torn between her flatmate George – good, kind, reliable George – and cold, indifferent Patrick, does she only seem capable of making choices that cause her pain?

Ginny is feeling lighter and heavier at the same time. She’s just learned from her cousin about a devastating genetic inheritance – but the revelation has brought a new logic to her mother’s death many years before, and to her mother’s love. Leaving her fiancé in the dark, Ginny flees to Germany to research a novel about the maverick sea captain Count von Luckner, who was lauded for his courage. ‘What was courage anyway?’ she wonders. ‘Did it rise up out of some kind of counter-pressure?’ Navigating transient, hedonistic Berlin on her own, she absorbs the city’s tangle of stories as she tries to gather the strength to face her future. Set in 2019 as it turns into 2020, I Laugh Me Broken is a novel about an inescapable past and the complex play between genetic inheritance and the choices that are ours to make. It is, finally, a hard-won love story. Praise for In the Neighbourhood of Fame (2015) 'packed full of astute observation, spinning towards a crisis which doesn’t have a predictable outcome.' —Linda Herrick, NZ Herald ​'finely tuned observations of relationships and identity, and how easily they can be the making or undoing of each other.' —Sam Finnemore, NZ Listener 'an adult, thought-provoking and gripping story on a real social issue.' —Steve Walker, Sunday Star-Times Bridget van der Zijpp is the author of two previous novels: Misconduct (shortlisted for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Best First Book Prize, South East Asia and the Pacific region, and the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards Best First Book of Fiction) and In the Neighbourhood of Fame. She returned to Auckland in March 2020 after living in Berlin for three years. Cover: Gabriel von Max (1840–1915), Tannhäuser, c.1878.

A provocative debut of sex and sexuality as a twentysomething New Yorker pursues a sexual freedom that follows no other lines than her own desire. If sex is a truth-teller, Eve--a young, queer woman in Brooklyn--is looking for answers. On an evening when she is feeling particularly impulsive, she posts some nude photos of herself online. This is how Eve meets Olivia, and through Olivia, the charismatic Nathan--and soon the three begin a relationship that disturbs Eve as much as it delights her. As each act of the affair unfolds, Eve is left to ask: to whom is she responsible? And to what extent do our desires determine who we are? In the way that only great fiction can, Acts of Service takes between its teeth the contradictions written all over our ideas of sex and sexuality. As incisive as it is exhilarating, this novel asks us to face our ideas about desire and power: what sex means to us, the forces that shape it, and how we find--or lose--ourselves in intimacy. At once juicy and intellectually challenging, sacred and profane, it might be the most thought-provoking book you read all year.

Ce volume contient: Le Cyclope, Alceste, Médée, Hippolyte, Les Héraclides, Andromaque, Hécube, La Folie d'Héraclès, Les Suppliantes, Ion Parmi les trois grands tragédiens grecs que sont Sophocle, Eschyle et Euripide, le dernier, le plus jeune, est aussi celui dont les œuvres sont les mieux conservées, avec près de vingt pièces. Voici assurément le tragédien le plus sombre de l’époque classique, qui met en scène des crimes effroyables : dans Médée, éclate le courroux d’une femme répudiée par son mari ; dans Hécube, une mère se venge du meurtrier de son fils ; dans Hippolyte, une femme, éprise de son beau-fils, se suicide… C’est dans l’amour qu’Euripide appréhende la grandeur et la misère humaines. En proie à une situation désespérée, la psyché humaine se montre capable de tout. Renouvelant les codes de la tragédie, Euripide met en avant les opprimés des cités grecques, qu’ils soient victimes ou coupables, donnant une vision nouvelle de la mythologie.

A tragedy in three letters: the masterpiece of one of Japan's greatest writers. A lover, her daughter and the abandoned wife: three letters by three women tell the story of a love affair's tragic consequences. First Shoko, who finds out about the infidelity through reading her mother's diary; then Midori, the wife who has always known but never told; and finally the beautiful Saiko, the woman who has betrayed her best friend. Yasushi Inoue's poised, unsentimental novella is a powerful tale with universal resonance. Written from three different points of view, the story explores the impact of forbidden passion. Love, death, truth and loneliness are all intertwined in this masterpiece from one of Japan's greatest writers.

« Isabelle allongée sur la nuit enrubannait mes pieds, déroulait la bandelette du trouble. Les mains à plat sur le matelas, je faisais le même travail de charme qu’elle. Elle embrassait ce qu’elle avait caressé puis, de sa main légère, elle ébouriffait et époussetait avec le plumeau de la perversité. La pieuvre dans mes entrailles frémissait, Isabelle buvait au sein droit, au sein gauche. Je buvais avec elle, je m’allaitais de ténèbres quand sa bouche s’éloignait. Les doigts revenaient, encerclaient, soupesaient la tiédeur du sein, les doigts finissaient dans mon ventre en épaves hypocrites. » Dans Thérèse et Isabelle, longtemps censuré, Violette Leduc tente de « rendre le plus minutieusement possible les sensations éprouvées dans l’amour physique ». Voici des pages âpres et précieuses, d’une liberté de ton qu’aucune femme écrivain n’avait osé prendre en France avant elle.

Rita Nocenti è pazza. O così dicono quelli che la conoscono e le cartelle della clinica psichiatrica dove è ricoverata. È sempre stata strana, ora è catatonica: non parla, si muove poco, sorride e basta. Sorride sempre. I medici non hanno idea di quale sia la causa di questo suo male misterioso, né sanno che cura seguire. L’unico legame col mondo è la sorella Francesca, che le sta vicino nonostante abbiano sempre avuto un rapporto difficile, anche prima della malattia. Un giorno, Francesca si taglia mentre sbuccia una mela e, alla vista del sangue, Rita smette di sorridere: è da questo episodio che ha inizio una catena di avvenimenti e rivelazioni dai risvolti inaspettati. Ma come dice Francesca “il sintomo non è che il riassunto di una storia”: per scoprire l’origine di questo male senza nome sarà necessario scavare a fondo. Le due sorelle dovranno percorrere a ritroso le loro esperienze in una dolorosa e illuminante serie di flashback, alla ricerca di una radice comune, di un trauma che – in un colpo solo – le ha unite e separate per sempre. In questo esordio di sorprendente maturità, Iris Biasio ricostruisce il castello di carte di una storia familiare tortuosa, intensa, traboccante di umanità.

1972 collection of poems from the Godmother of Punk and the author of the National Book Award winner "Just Kids." Includes the 1."Seventh Heaven" 2."Sally" 3."Jeanne Darc" 4."Renee Falconetti" 5."A Fire of Unknown Origin" 6."Edie Sedgwick" 7."Crystal" 8."Marianne Faithfull" 9."Girl Trouble" 10."Cocaine" 11."Judith" 12."Fantasy" 13."Marilyn Miller" 14."Mary Jane" 15."Amelia Earhart I" 16."Amelia Earhart II" 17."Linda" 18."Death by Water" 19."Celine" 20."Dog Dream" 21."Female" 22."Longing"

"Through these poems, a singular, glowing vision of Robert Mapplethorpe develops and emerges. In The Coral Sea , Patti Smith (in the words of Tennessee Williams) 'rings the bell of pure poetry.' "―William S. Burroughs In linked pieces Patti Smith tells the story of a man on a journey to see the Southern Cross, who is reflecting on his life and fighting the illness that is consuming him. Metaphoric and dreamy, this tale of transformation arises from Smith's knowledge of Mapplethorpe as a young man and as a mature artist, his close relationship with his patron and friend, Sam Wagstaff, and his years surviving AIDS and his ascent into death. Rich in detail, it is filled with references to Mapplethorpe's work and shows the man beneath the persona. Set against photographs by Mapplethorpe, the work emerges as a hymn, a prayer, a fable wishing him Godspeed on his latest journey. "She was once our savage Rimbaud, but suffering has turned her into our St. John of the Cross, a mystic full of compassion."--Edmund White

"J'avais seize ans quand je me suis sentie attirée par lui pour la première fois, par l'image de son visage et par ses poèmes qui me déconcertaient et me séduisaient à la fois. Plongée dans leur charme enivrant, j'en ressortais tremblante, sans vraiment me souvenir de ce que je venais de lire. Pourtant, ses mots se gravaient dans mon cerveau, s'enroulaient comme un cordage sur le pont d'un navire fantôme naviguant dans une brume mortelle. Une saison en enfer a été pour moi une drogue de jeunesse, comme un concentré de haschisch, ou une bonne dose d'alcool." P.S. Dans cet ouvrage illustré qu'elle a entièrement conçu, Patti Smith a choisi de mettre en regard les poèmes d'Une saison en enfer avec des moments de sa propre histoire, grâce à des dessins, photos, documents, textes inédits... Se dessine ainsi la relation très particulière qu'elle entretient avec le poète depuis toujours.

Witt is a collection of poems written by Patti Smith, in 1973. Published on June 1st 1973 by Gotham Book Mart & Gallery in New York city, a rare hard to find classic.

From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland with no design, yet heeding signs–including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. In February, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger’s words, “Anything is possible: after all, it’s the Year of the Monkey.” For Smith–inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, writing–the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life’s gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America. Smith melds the western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us from California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of a friend in crisis; to the hospital room of a valued mentor; and by turns to remembered and imagined places, this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction with poetic mastery. The unexpected happens; grief and disillusionment set in. But as Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope for a better world. Riveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated by Smith’s signature Polaroids, Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.

Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear--they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater; and Galya's girls, heroically teaching signing by day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Ilya Kaminsky's long-awaited Deaf Republic confronts our time's vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them. Finalist for the T. S. Eliot PrizeFinalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection