Months after a family tragedy, estranged siblings Alex and Carmen spend a fraught winter week circling one another in the aftermath. Insightful and self-aware yet reckless and self-destructive, brother and sister are bound together less by affection than by shared circumstances neither has fully reckoned with.Through extensive flashbacks and interior monologues, memory and identity intrude upon the present. Old grievances resurface, new ones form, and the siblings must contend with...

The art history public has long been both fascinated and repelled by the renowned Renaissance sculptor Benvenuto Cellini. He was a murderer, thief, lover of both genders, servant and rival of popes and princes, as well as an ingenious artist. In his legendary autobiography, the Vita, Cellini describes his activities vividly and in lurid detail. Often, the most disturbing passages were dismissed as fiction. In this clear-eyed portrayal, Andreas Beyer argues that these sensational a...