The Chiffon Trenches
By: André Leon Talley
Narrated by: André Leon Talley
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the pages of Vogue to the runways of Paris, this “captivating” (Time) memoir by a legendary style icon captures the fashion world from the inside out, in its most glamorous and most cutthroat moments.
“The Chiffon Trenches honestly and candidly captures fifty sublime years of fashion.”—Manolo Blahnik
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Tacky
By: Rax King
Narrated by: Rax King
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
An irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture and bad taste, exploring coming of age in the 2000s in the age of Hot Topic, Creed, and frosted lip gloss—from the James Beard Award-nominated writer of the Catapult column "Store-Bought Is Fine”
Tacky is about the power of pop... Read more »
Ninth Street Women
By: Mary Gabriel
Narrated by: Lisa Stathoplos
Length: 40 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times).
Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic,... Read more »
M Train
By: Patti Smith
Narrated by: Patti Smith
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
National Best Seller
From the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as “a roadmap to my life.”
M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes... Read more »
What the Ermine Saw
By: Eden Collinsworth
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
The remarkable true story behind one of history’s most enigmatic portraits—"a glorious picaresque of unbridled passions and unmitigated scoundrels, a glorious romp through the great palaces and palazzos of Europe" (Amanda Foreman, New York Times best-selling author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire)
Five hundred... Read more »
The World of Critical Role
By: Liz Marsham, Cast of Critical Role & Critical Role
Narrated by: Mary Elizabeth McGlynn & Felicia Day
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Dive deep into the history of the world’s most popular fantasy RPG livestream with the cast of Critical Role in this definitive guide.
From its unassuming beginnings as a casual home game between friends to the role-playing phenomenon it is today, Critical Role has become the stuff of legend. These pages chronicle how a circle of friends who all... Read more »
What Are You Looking At?
By: Will Gompertz
Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
Length: 13 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
For skeptics, art lovers, and the millions of us who visit art galleries every year—and are confused—What Are You Looking At? by former director of London's Tate Gallery Will Gompertz is a wonderfully lively, accessible narrative history of Modern Art, from Impressionism to the present day.
What is modern art? Who started it? Why do we either... Read more »
The Lost Painting
By: Jonathan Harr
Narrated by: Campbell Scott
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Told with consummate skill by the writer of the bestselling, award-winning A Civil Action, The Lost Painting is a remarkable synthesis of history and detective story.
An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to... Read more »
Treasured
By: Christina Riggs
Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A bold new history of the discovery of King Tut and the seismic impact it left on modern society.
When it was discovered in 1922, in an Egypt newly independent of the British Empire, the 3,300-year-old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world. The boy-king became a household name overnight and kickstarted an international obsession... Read more »
The Wretched of the Earth
By: Frantz Fanon
Narrated by: Sebastain Brown
Length: 12 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
First published in 1961, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is a masterful and timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle. In 2020, it found a new readership in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests and the centering of narratives interrogating race by Black writers. Bearing singular...
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Leonardo da Vinci
By: Walter Isaacson
Narrated by: Alfred Molina
Length: 17 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker).
Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing... Read more »
The People's Painter
By: Cynthia Levinson
Narrated by: Tara Sands
Length: 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Sibert Medal
A lyrically told, exquisitely illustrated biography of influential Jewish artist and activist Ben Shahn
“The first thing I can remember,” Ben said, “I drew.”
As an observant child growing up in Lithuania, Ben Shahn yearns to draw everything he sees—and, after seeing his father banished by the Czar for demanding...
Hooked
By: Sutton Foster
Narrated by: Sutton Foster
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From the 2-time Tony Award-winner and the star of TV’s Younger, funny and intimate stories and reflections about how crafting has kept her sane while navigating the highs and lows of family, love, and show business (and how it can help you, too).
Whether she’s playing an “age-defying” book editor on television or dazzling audiences on the... Read more »
Picasso's War
By: Hugh Eakin
Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
Length: 15 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world—and Picasso the most famous artist alive—in the shadow of World War II
“Fascinating, eloquent, wonderfully lucid, Picasso’s War will change whatever we thought we knew about modern art and its... Read more »
The 99% Invisible City
By: Roman Mars & Kurt Kohlstedt
Narrated by: Roman Mars
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
From the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast, comes a guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities. Narrated by Roman Mars, with a bonus Q&A and a Full Episode of 99% Invisible.
Have you ever wondered what those bright, squiggly graffiti marks on the sidewalk mean?
Or stopped to consider why you don't see...
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Walk Through Walls
By: Marina Abramovic
Narrated by: Marina Abramovic
Length: 14 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all—and it intoxicated me.”
In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramović’s MoMA retrospective for the chance to sit across from her and communicate with her nonverbally in an... Read more »
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
By: Ai Weiwei
Narrated by: David Shih
Length: 13 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The “intimate and expansive” (Time) memoir of “one of the most important artists working in the world today” (Financial Times), telling a remarkable history of China over the last hundred years while also illuminating his artistic process
“Poignant . . . An illuminating through-line emerges in the many parallels Ai traces between his life and... Read more »
Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born
By: Evan Ross Katz
Narrated by: Evan Ross Katz & Deanna Anthony
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Explore the history and cultural impact of a groundbreaking television show adored by old and new fans alike: Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Over the course of its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer cultivated a loyal fandom and featured a strong, complex female lead, at a time when such a character was a rarity. Evan Ross Katz explores the... Read more » Learn more
On Freedom
By: Maggie Nelson
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
An expansive, exhilarating work of criticism by one of the most significant writers of our day.
So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long... Read more »
The Light Years
By: Chris Rush
Narrated by: Victor Lodato
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American history
Chris Rush was born into a prosperous, fiercely Roman Catholic, New Jersey family. But underneath the gleaming mid-century house, the flawless hostess mom, and the thriving businessman dad ran an unspoken tension that, amid...
David Copperfield's History of Magic
By: David Copperfield, Richard Wiseman & David Britland
Narrated by: Feodor Chin & David Copperfield
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
An illustrated, illuminating insight into the world of illusion from the world’s greatest and most successful magician, capturing its audacious and inventive practitioners, and showcasing the art form’s most famous artifacts housed at David Copperfield’s secret museum.
In this personal journey through a unique performing art, David Copperfield... Read more »
A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes
By: Rodrigo Garcia
Narrated by: Rodrigo Garcia
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
“(Garcia) now honors his parents in this brief yet profound memoir rendered all the more intimate in García's own voice.”—Booklist (starred review)
“This is a beautiful farewell to two extraordinary people. It enthralled and moved me, and it will move and enthrall anyone who has ever entered the glorious literary world of Gabriel García...
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Pop Song
By: Larissa Pham
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Pop Song is a book about love and about falling in love—with a place, or a painting, or a person—and the joy and terror inherent in the experience of that love. Plumbing the well of culture for clues and patterns about love and loss—from Agnes Martin's abstract paintings to James Turrell's transcendent light works, and Anne Carson's Eros the... Read more »
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ArtCurious
By: Jennifer Dasal
Narrated by: Jennifer Dasal
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A wildly entertaining and surprisingly educational dive into art history as you've never seen it before, from the host of the beloved ArtCurious podcast
We're all familiar with the works of Claude Monet, thanks in no small part to the ubiquitous reproductions of his water lilies on umbrellas, handbags, scarves, and dorm-room posters. But did you... Read more »