弗洛伊德是医学史上、心理学史上，乃至文艺理论史上举足轻重的人物，也是学术史上聚讼最多、褒贬最多的人物。他的《梦的解析》能被唐斯博士列入《改变历史的书》中，可见其影响之一斑，更可见出他的著作是何等的深沉有力。正如他所说，他的一生除了思想的变迁，余无一事可资记述，我们从他的自叙传里，可以发现他和学术之间的关系是如何的密切。而这本以他的学术良心所写就的“思想史”，经由受教于他的詹姆斯·斯特雷奇(James Strachey)译为英文，确实能让我们看到弗洛伊德多彩多姿的精神生活，以及他所面临的种种挫败和成功，虽然我们不能靠他的现身说法，来给他盖棺定论，但是借着他的现身说法，却能让我们看到他那深奥、浩瀚的学问的大概轮廓。

《天才的阴暗面:希区柯克的一生》内容简介：一个人，如何能像希区柯克那样，挣脱内心的恐惧、焦虑、欲望与偏执，获得力量，找到属于自己的天才……《后窗》《迷魂记》《蝴蝶梦》《39级台阶》……一个有着伟大作品的天才导演，电影史上的光辉名字，对自己的生命经历却向来讳莫如深。在他复杂乖僻的个性、深刻迷人的艺术背后，究竟躲藏着些什么？
美国著名传记作家唐纳德•斯伯特访问了与希区柯克合作过的制片人、编剧、演员和长年故交，搜罗了海量的各类材料，挖掘出艺术与个性间的联系，为世人理解希区柯克及其电影提供了一条清晰的线索。

波德莱尔影响了包括普鲁斯特和本雅明在内的很多作家和思想家。本书考察了当时的文化运动——从浪漫主义到象征主义的转变过程……此书详细地描写了他的一生和思想发展的历程，是研究波德莱尔的学者们以及他作品的喜好者不可多得的文献材料。
美国印第安纳大学法语系教授罗斯玛丽·罗伊德的这本书是关于波德莱尔文学生涯及其文学风格的极佳导读作品，具有重要的学术价值。原著文字优美，简明畅达，可读性很强。译者充分且精准地把握了原著的风格，很好地译出了作者的旨意。可以说，这是一本难得的著译皆佳的作品。

桑塔格的首部传记，再现了一个知识界偶像的辉煌历程，并试图还原偶像作为普通人的喜怒哀乐。书中披露了许多鲜为人知的故事、细节，比如桑塔格那客死中国的生父与懒散无为的母亲，寂寞却崭露出天才迹象的童年；当然，更多的，是这位走过鬼门关的乳腺癌患者、十赴波黑战场的女斗士，人称“文坛非正式女盟主”的不可遏止的创作激情，及其备受争议的性取向……

1976年，经友人推荐，年轻的《纽约书评》助理编辑、文学女青年努涅斯成为处于癌症术后恢复期的苏珊·桑塔格的助手，由此进入一代知识偶像的私人生活。有四分之一华人血统的努涅斯拥有哥伦比亚大学艺术硕士学位，令母子俩一见倾心，向来都好为人师的桑塔格当仁不让地做起了她的文学导师，并差点成为她的婆婆。
《永远的苏珊——回忆苏珊·桑塔格(精)》由西格丽德·努涅斯著，阿垚译。美国小说家努涅斯的这部小型回忆录之立意，并非学术传记，因此述及诸多名人私事，细节丰富；述及桑塔格的狂傲或脆弱，母子关系或个人感情与功名，寥寥数语却活龙活现，从中可以看到一个有血有肉，而非被种种的主义神化，又或被毁谤和流言包裹的桑塔格。《永远的苏珊——回忆苏珊·桑塔格(精)》亦充满了对1970年代那个失落的、充满智慧的纽约城的怀念与礼赞。

《查泰莱夫人的情人》是他们现实生活的巧妙伪装。他们的婚姻富于激情却又异乎寻常，失望与不忠行为既损害又增强了他们的结合。——《深情的背叛》通过几百封弗里达未发表的信件，结合劳伦斯各个时期的作品，揭示了劳伦斯夫妇畸形婚姻的实质。
1912年，英国现代最受关注的作家之一D.H.劳伦斯认识了并爱上了他老师的德国贵族妻子弗里达。弗里达抛下三个孩子，与劳伦斯私奔到巴伐利亚，两年后结婚。之后他们克服了重重障碍，随着他们的爱情渐臻成熟，二人之间相互的忠诚一次次经受了来自婚姻内部和外部的考验。这部简明又可读性强的双人传记描绘了这一对不遵循习俗、情绪易波动的夫妇婚姻生活的画卷，作者通过几百封未发表的弗里达的信件，给这个几乎是耳熟能详的故事注入了新的活力。
无论他们的爱情被不忠诚伤害得多深，劳伦斯夫妇相信，他们彼此能让对方明确他们存在的要旨（对任何一个男人或女人都是难以达到的境界）。倘若他们只是在一定程度上达到目的，那是因为自负的沉重包袱挡住了他们对自我的完善。

阿格里奇传奇的一生恰如她最喜欢的作曲家拉威尔一部作品的标题：童子与魔法。她像古典音乐界的巫师，拥有神秘而无与伦比的弹奏技巧，同时永远保持一颗纯真善良的童心。从24岁在肖邦国际钢琴比赛中获得第一名，到1965年在肖邦大赛的评委席上拂袖而去，从布宜诺斯艾利斯到维也纳，再 到日内瓦，本书完整地呈现了阿格里奇的传奇经历和伟大成就。“天才只是永不泯灭的童心”，波德莱尔的话仿佛是为阿格里奇而写，或许也道出了隐藏在所有艺术中最温暖的秘密。

Now in paperback: the Lambda Literary Award Finalist about "a sophisticated, overheated lesbian world in Paris in the first decades of the twentieth century. A great story, beautifully told." -Edmund White. Born a scant three months after her uncle Oscar's notorious arrest, raised in the shadow of the greatest scandal of the turn of the twentieth century, Dolly Wilde attracted people of taste and talent wherever she went. Brilliantly witty, charged with charm, a "born writer," she drenched her prodigious talents in liquids, burnt up her opportunities in flamboyant affairs, and died as she lived-repeating her uncle's history of excess, collapse, and ruin. In this biography, Joan Schenkar has created both a captivating portrait of Dolly and a cultural history of Natalie Clifford Barney's remarkable Parisian salon-frequented by Janet Flanner, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes-in which she shone so brightly.

"That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf," Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular but least understood of Latin American writers. Now, after years of research on three continents, drawing on previously unknown manuscripts and dozens of interviews, Benjamin Moser demonstrates how Lispector's development as a writer was directly connected to the story of her turbulent life. Born in the nightmarish landscape of post-World War I Ukraine, Clarice became, virtually from adolescence, a person whose beauty, genius, and eccentricity intrigued Brazil. Why This World tells how this precocious girl, through long exile abroad and difficult personal struggles, matured into a great writer. It also asserts, for the first time, the deep roots in the Jewish mystical tradition that make her the true heir to Kafka as well as the unlikely author of "perhaps the greatest spiritual autobiography of the twentieth century." From Chechelnik to Recife, from Naples and Berne to Washington and Rio de Janeiro, Why This World strips away the mythology surrounding this extraordinary figure and shows how Clarice Lispector transformed one woman's struggles into a universally resonant art.

Born in 1876, Natalie Barney -- beautiful, charismatic, brilliant, and wealthy -- was expected to marry well and lead the conventional life of a privileged society woman. But Natalie had no interest in marriage and made no secret of the fact that she was attracted to women. Brought up by a talented and rebellious mother -- the painter Alice Pike Barney -- Natalie cultivated an interest in poetry and the arts. When she moved to Paris in the early 1900s, she plunged into the city's literary scene, opening a famed Left Bank literary salon and engaging in a string of scandalous affairs. For the rest of her long and controversial life, Natalie Barney was revered by writers for her generous, eccentric spirit and reviled by high society for her sexual appetite. In the end, she served as an inspiration and came to know many of the greatest names of twentieth-century arts and letters -- including Marcel Proust, Colette, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Isadora Duncan, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and Truman Capote.

From a leader of feminist punk music at the dawn of the riot-grrrl era, a candid and deeply personal look at life in rock and roll.
Before Carrie Brownstein codeveloped and starred in the wildly popular TV comedy Portlandia, she was already an icon to young women for her role as a musician in the feminist punk band Sleater-Kinney. The band was a key part of the early riot- grrrl and indie rock scenes in the Pacific Northwest, known for their prodigious guitar shredding and their leftist lyrics against war, traditionalism, and gender roles.
HUNGER MAKES ME A MODERN GIRL is the deeply personal and revealing narrative of Brownstein’s life in music, from ardent fan to pioneering female guitarist to comedic performer and luminary in the independent rock world. Though Brownstein struggled against the music industry’s sexist double standards, by 2006 she was the only woman to earn a spot on Rolling Stone readers’ list of the “25 Most Underrated Guitarists of All-Time.” This book intimately captures what it feels like to be a young woman in a rock-and-roll band, from her days at the dawn of the underground feminist punk-rock movement that would define music and pop culture in the 1990s through today.