Résultats pour "Sand" dans Arts et littérature

Elle n’avait pas le goût du scandale mais celui de la liberté, chevillé au corps et à sa plume. George Sand a osé porter des costumes et un nom d’homme, mener la vie sentimentale, littéraire et politique de son choix. Un affront aux préjugés du XIXe siècle et un personnage incontournable pour évoquer l’émancipation des femmes.

Dean Yates was the ideal warzone correspondent: courageous, compassionate, dedicated. After years of facing the worst, though, including the Bali bombings and the Boxing Day tsunami, one final incident undid him. In July 2007, two of his staff members were brutally gunned down by an American helicopter in Iraq. What followed was an unravelling of everything Dean thought he knew of himself. His PTSD was compounded by his moral wound - the devastation of what he thought he knew of the world and his own character and beliefs.

My sand life, my pebble life. My life measured out in tides, coming in and going out. My life measured out in games of trying to spot the sea first. My life measured out in the delicious and indulgent sadness that comes from leaving a holiday cottage for the last time and for the first time in several days it isn’t raining, but at least the kids have had a great time and, let’s face it, so have you.

Jil Sander ist die bekannteste Modedesignerin Deutschlands. In einer Zeit, in der Frauen nur mit Erlaubnis ihrer Ehemänner ein Konto eröffnen und arbeiten durften, begann sie Mode zu entwerfen, die nichts mehr mit den biederen Rollenbildern der Fünfziger- und Sechzigerjahre gemein hatte. Mit ihren minimalistischen Entwürfen schuf Jil Sander den neuen Look der modernen berufstätigen Frau: lässig, erfolgreich, selbstbewusst.

Joining us at Audible Studios is British journalist and author Sarah Sands. She has recently written and narrated the introduction to the book Today: A History of Our World Through 60 Years of Conversations & Controversies, which is what we talk to her about in this interview, as well as what her job involves as Today editor, the words of caution that were given to her when she started the job and the sort of feedback (read ‘polite complaints') that get written in to the show.

Audible exclusive. Philippe Sands drops by to discuss East West Street, a historical memoir crossing decades.