Written by 1991 Nobel laureate Pierre Gilles de Gennes, this fascinating book addresses topics ranging from soft-matter physics to the activities of science: th

A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destruction In the dramatic years between 18

The Most Fragile Objects, Chimal's first novel published in translation, tells three stories (maybe two, or just one) of people living secret lives in early 21s

“A prodigiously imaginative collection.” —New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice “Dazzling tales from a master of the fantastic.” —Washington

Psychoanalytic perspective on what Western philosophers from Socrates to Foucault have called “the art of living.”