WHY ARE WE AT WAR?

MAILER NORMAN

...

In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris, 1900-1910

Sue Roe

The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps, but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills - artificial and real - and in the cafés and cabarets of Montmartre during the f...

The Agony of Eros

Byung-Chul Han

Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In The Agony of Eros, a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in today's society. For Han, love re...