Staff picks

"Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019, a heart-wrenching epic about the tension between fate and free will. Told in the wise and watchful, sometimes mischievous voice of the 'chi' or Igbo spirit guardian of Chinonso, a poor poultry farmer, this is a profoundly humane epic love story. "

"Ellmann has produced a domestic epic of modern American life in the Trump era. She captures the pathos of the everyday, with an Ohio housewife who tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America. "

"From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, we follow a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something - a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere. "

"De Pir Kremer, dat ass e Stéck Lëtzebuerg. Fir dem Auteur säin 100. Gebuertsdag beliicht dëse Katalog zur Ausstellung Pir Kremer - ZesummegePIKtes d’Liewen an d’Wierk vun deem Auteur, deem seng Stëmm wuel wéi keng aner d’Lëtzebuerger Radio- a Sproochelandschaft gepräägt huet. "

"The Tale of Tea presents a comprehensive history of tea from prehistoric times to the present day in a single volume, covering the fascinating social history of tea and the origins, botany and biochemistry of this singularly important cultigen "

"The documentary tells the long-overdue tale of a disparate crew of renegade filmmakers who emerged from an economically bankrupt and dangerous moment in New York history..."

Die Folgen der Reihe "Baukunst" sind jeweils einem herausragenden Werk der Architektur gewidmet. Unterschiedliche Konzepte, Epochen, Trends und Architekten werden monografisch vorgestellt, im Detail und mit 3D-Modellen...

A documentary about the incredible case of the 17th century Dutch painter known as Johannes Torrentius, born Johannes Symonsz. van der Beeck (1589-1644). A hallucinating story about a libertine and genius painter, tolerance and intolerance and torture and one mysterious painting...

Blue is the final feature film by director Derek Jarman, released four months before his death from AIDS-related complications. Such complications had already rendered him partially blind at the time of the film’s release, so that he was able to see only in shades of blue....

« Pour la première fois en France, la BnF célèbre J.R.R. Tolkien à l'occasion d'une grande exposition événement. Dialoguant avec les collections de la BnF, les manuscrits, dessins, cartes et photographies de l'honorable professeur d'Oxford reproduites dans le catalogue permettent d'arpenter et de mieux comprendre le monde imaginaire forgé par l'auteur du Seigneur des Anneaux. »

« Depuis les années 2000, les sexualités féminines sont sorties du silence grâce aux séries télévisées : après Sex and The City, les productions les plus récentes ambitionnent de raconter la singularité de l’expérience des femmes. »