Coups de coeur

Ils ont vingt ans, sont sans diplôme et cherchent du travail. Pendant six mois, les coachs d'un cabinet de placement vont leur enseigner le comportement et le langage qu'il faut avoir aujourd'hui pour décrocher un emploi...

Television drama about corporate and government conspiracy, starring Bill Nighy and John Simm. When a teenage drug-dealer is shot dead and a high-profile MP's lover is killed falling under a Tube train...

On ne parle jamais du Belize, le plus petit pays d'Amérique Centrale. C'est sans doute pour cela que les Mennonites, ces religieux proches des Amishes, sont venus s'y installer en 1958....

"The lure of the Wild West has been a driving force in the American experience. Originally the stuff of dreams, dime novels, and Wild West shows, the fascination continued in motion pictures such as The Great Train Robbery, High Noon, The Magnificent Seven, the so-called spaghetti westerns of Clint Eastwood, and hundreds more.."

"Calling Desdemonia Luxembourg’s finest metal band might be damning them with faint praise, with their quality catching the attention of in-demand producer Fredrik Nordström, whose mix gives an impressive edge and bullish snarl to the band’s fourth album.."

"Conversations with the Creative and Inspired celebrates contemporary jazz artists who have toiled, struggled and succeeded in finding their creative space.."

"In this follow-up to his 2012 The Contemporary American Dramatic Trilogy, Robert J. Andreach continues his unique study of dramatic structure as evidenced through the overarching themes of contemporary American trilogies. The themes of the first play in a trilogy, he shows, can be far different from those developed as the sequence continues, citing examples from playwrights as varied as David R."

"The Kardashian family is a contemporary cultural touchstone, recognizable throughout the world, connoting warrantless celebrity, voluptuous beauty, and social media savviness. This book explores the Kardashians' brand and celebrity via narrative discourse analyses of the television reality series Keeping Up with the Kardashians, social media utilization, and popular press presence."

"The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan."

« La culture tient aujourd'hui une place ambiguë dans la société : il existe un divorce entre le monde politique et le monde culturel, mais le premier espère mobiliser le second au moment des élections et lors de crises démocratiques aiguës ; [...] »

"At a time when individual rights are being contested and when those on the fringes of society feel deeply threatened, this powerful photographic compilation delivers a message of humanity and inclusiveness that transcends geopolitical and cultural boundaries. "

"This is squarely a personal lesson in not judging a book by its cover. As soon as I saw the band name paired with that title, I thought "it's gonna be one of -those- bands" but what followed was a wonderfully surprising and very well put together slice of Neo-psychadelic space rock."

"Since Gary Cooper built one of the first modernist houses in Palm Springs in the 1930s, this desert oasis has entranced Hollywood. A mecca for the international jet set that lured Frank Sinatra, Walter Annenberg, and others, Palm Springs came into its own architecturally as a haven for visionary modernists such as Richard Neutra, who were practicing the International Style in Los Angeles. ."

« Nombre d’apprentis musiciens des trente dernières années ont tenu entre leurs mains, au cours de leur formation, un ouvrage d’Odette Gartenlaub (1922-2014), figure majeure du renouveau de la pédagogie musicale en France à la fin du siècle dernier. »

"Collection of essays, drawn from three decades of writing, which trace girls' and women's progress (or lack thereof) in what Orenstein once called a "half-changed world." Named one of the "40 women who changed the media business in the last 40 years" by Columbia Journalism Review, Peggy Orenstein is one of the most prominent, unflinching feminist voices of our time."

„HipHop-Kultur ist global: In jeder Sprache wird gerappt, gesampelt wird alles, von Soul Funk Breaks über Klassik bis hin zum folkloristischen Bläsersatz und auf Youtube tanzen B-Boys aus der ganzen Welt vor Wänden voller Graffiti."

Wer schreibt unter ›Sirius‹? Wer verbirgt sich hinter ›Tania Naskandy‹, ›A. Béjo‹, ›Erasmus‹, ›Tom Palmer‹ oder ›Loup‹? Das Kleine ABC der Pseudonyme in Luxemburg beschäftigt sich eingehend mit der Frage, was ein Deckname ist und wieso sich eine Autorin oder ein Autor nicht unter bürgerlichem Namen zu erkennen geben will.

The Pompidou Centre in Paris presented in May 2017 the first European exhibition devoted to US photographer Walker Evans. Not a photojournalist but principally a maker of informal portraits, Walker depicted working class life and the vernacular scene in a starkly realist style drawn from the examples of Andre Kertesz and August Sander....

Prévu pour s’ouvrir le 1er septembre 1939, le tout premier Festival de Cannes n’a pas eu lieu. L’entrée en guerre imposa sept ans de réflexion à ce qui allait devenir le plus grand festival de cinéma au monde...

The perfect reader's guide to modern American crime fiction. The word 'Noir' is used in its loosest sense: every major living American writer is considered...