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It's happened to all of us at some point. You walk into the kitchen, or flip open your laptop, or stride confidently up to a lectern, filled with purpose--and suddenly haven't the foggiest idea what you're doing. Welcome to your idiot brain.

Yes, it is an absolute marvel in some respects--the seat of our consciousness, the pinnacle (so far) of evolutionary progress, and the engine of all human experience--but your brain is also messy, fallible, and about 50,000 years out-of-date. We cling to superstitions, remember faces but not names, miss things sitting right in front of us, and...

Challenging the prevailing notion among cinephiles that the auteur is an isolated genius interested primarily in individualism, Colin Burnett positions Robert Bresson as one whose life's work confronts the cultural forces that helped shape it. Regarded as one of film history's most elusive figures, Bresson (1901-1999) carried himself as an auteur long before cultural magazines, like the famed Cahiers du cinema, advanced the term to describe such directors as Jacques Tati, Alfred Hitchcock, and Jean-Luc Godard. In this groundbreaking study, Burnett combines biography with cultural history...

»Wahnsinnig lustig und erschütternd ... wie Jane Austen auf Droge.« Harper's Magazine

Ein Weihnachtstag im Haus der viktorianischen Familie Edgeworth 1885. Der Patriarch Duncan lässt keinen Zweifel daran, dass er der Herr im Haus ist, gegenüber seiner Familie verhält er sich anmaßend und tyrannisch. Als seine Frau stirbt, wird sie kurzerhand durch eine andere ersetzt, kaum älter als seine Töchter. Von dem Moment an, in dem die erste Teetasse umgestoßen wird, braut sich ein Sturm zusammen.

Ivy Compton-Burnett entwirft eine Welt, in der unablässig die...

The Donne family's move to the country is inspired by a wish to be close to their cousins, who are to be their nearest neighbours. It proves too close for comfort, however. For a secret switching of wills causes the most genteel pursuit of self-interest to threaten good relations and even good manners...

Ivy Compton-Burnett employs her sharp ear for comedy and celebrated powers of dialogue to spectacular effect. She reveals a devastating microcosm of human society, in which the elders are by no means always the betters, in which no character is totally scrupulous, but none without...