On the eve of adulthood, four Australian teenagers navigate the messy, exhilarating, and often hilariously misguided turns of first love and self-discovery over one intense, graffiti-streaked night.
In the 1970s, a young artist named Reno moves from New York's art scene into the world of Italian motorcycle racing and radical politics, hoping to define herself through speed, art, and revolution.
Aristotle's 'Poetics' explains how tragedy works, showing how well-made plots, flawed heroes, and the mix of pity and fear lead to catharsis, turning pain into pleasure for the audience.
Driven by a destructive artistic hunger, a respectable banker leaves his life and family for the bohemian art world of Paris and the primal allure of Tahiti, leaving human wreckage behind for the sake of creative genius.
An elderly Russian woman's mind becomes a Hermitage, filled with masterpieces she memorized during the Siege of Leningrad, her only refuge from war and time as her present slips away.
A miller's daughter must spin straw into gold or die, a task she accomplishes with the help of a mysterious imp who demands her firstborn child as payment.
In a lush, possessive world of esoteric beauty, Rapunzel's golden hair becomes a gilded cage, forcing her and her prince to brave the wilderness for true self-reliance and the bitter-sweet dawn of adulthood.
An aspiring anatomist, seeking cadavers for artistic inspiration, falls for a graffiti artist, forcing her to choose between her studies and his dangerous life.
Unleash your inner chaos by intentionally destroying this illustrated guide, transforming blank pages into a playground of creative mess and mess-making creativity.
In a classroom fueled by urban tension and racial divides, a determined teacher empowers 'unteachable' students to confront intolerance and rewrite their own narratives through the shared power of diaries and the enduring legacy of Anne Frank.
After waking up as thin as a pancake, a boy named Stanley discovers the unexpected advantages of his new two-dimensional life, from sliding under doors to traveling in an envelope, ultimately becoming an unlikely hero who helps catch art thieves.
Duncan's crayons, each with a funny, sad story of being lost, broken, or dryer-shrunk, send him postcards asking for a colorful rescue back to their box.
Nietzsche's first book explores how Greek tragedy combined beauty (Apollonian) and primal chaos (Dionysian) to create art that faced life's suffering and offered comfort.
A celebrated painter in rural Colorado, haunted by a violent past, sees his fragile peace shattered when an act of vigilantism forces him back into a brutal world, where he confronts his inner darkness and seeks redemption through art.
A lovelorn chef finds a lost 18th-century masterpiece in a junk shop, starting a high-stakes treasure hunt through London's art world and forcing her to confront its secrets and her own capacity for love.