Barefoot Doctor

Barefoot DoctorA profound, poignant story of a village healer and her community, from one of the worlds great contemporary novelists A complex and illuminating portrait of a group of healers in China . . . [that] offers profound insights about what it means to pursue and live a fulfilling life. Publishers Weekly A barefoot doctor herself, [Can Xue] has a unique and powerful way of transporting readers to new worlds where reality and magic are intertwined, and she

written by Homa Katouzian

met Marilyn Monroe on a photo shoot for Look magazine in 1953

Ranging from the simple to the complex

and Gris engaged with the pictorial tradition of illusion and deception in their influential Cubist works

An iconic piece of challenging 1960s cinema and a gripping narrative on its own terms

She tells of being poor

Featuring Jack Oakie and Paulette Goddard in stellar supporting turns

Salonica evokes the sights

delicious food

Many consider Tokarczuk to be the most important Polish writer of her generation and Flights is one of those rare books that seems to conjure life itself out of the air

filmmakers Christopher Coppola and Oliver Stone

acoustic guitar and a brief piano riff overdubbed onto the title track