Along with her work as a foreign correspondent, Lara Marlowe is next known for her writings on French art in the Irish Times. Following on from the great success of The Things I've Seen: Nine Lives of a Foreign Correspondent, this book gathers together the best of Lara Marlowe's writings on visual artists and authors. Marlowe writes with great insight and grace on artists such as Picasso, Gauguin, Matisse, and Cezanne, and on writers including Sartre and de Beauvoir, Levi-Strauss and Camus. The book is lavishly illustrated with reproductions of some of the key works of art discussed by the author.