Jon Lee Anderson first reported from Afghanistan in the late 1980s, covering the US-backed mujahideen’s insurrection against the Soviet-backed regime in Kabul. Within days of the 9/11 attacks, he was again on the ground as an early eyewitness... Zobraziť viac
For the denizens of mythical Primeval, its fields and forests bounded by two rivers, the world beyond is nothing more than a dream. Yet their stories – or Times – are a microcosm of the tumultuous recent history of the world. The fortunes of the family... Zobraziť viac
‘I like eating cold, clammy wraps from big pharmacies that are open late and sell just a few foods like protein bars and powders.’ Flower is a book of realistic admissions,likes, dislikes,memories and no-brainer observations, treating personal truth as... Zobraziť viac
The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin is a dazzling work of biography, memoir and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin's Landwehr Canal, a site at the centre of great historical changes, but... Zobraziť viac
In River, a woman takes long, solitary walks by the River Lea, observing and describing her surroundings and the unusual characters she encounters. River is a remarkable novel, full of poignant images and poetic observations – an ode to nature,... Zobraziť viac
In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne's annual conference in Paris. Standing up in front of the profession for whom he is a 'mentally ill person' suffering from... Zobraziť viac
‘If there’s any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have to be listening,’ says Jon Fosse in A Silent Language, the lecture he delivered after being awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature.When he writes, Fosse explains, he listens... Zobraziť viac
With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia... Zobraziť viac
A slantwise account of queer life in the twentieth century and a testament to the liberatory power of friendship. Zobraziť viac
The latest novel by Jon Fosse, the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, Vaim is a book about little boats and big boats, love and death, passive men and an incredibly determined woman. Zobraziť viac
In the middle of the countryside, a realtor is showing a disgraced professor around an idyllic house. She speaks not only about the home's many wonderful qualities but about its previous owner, the mystifying Helen, whose presence still seems... Zobraziť viac
Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughter is an eruption from the unconscious that, like political resistance, poetry, or self-revelation, expresses a provocative, impish drive to burst free from external constraints... Zobraziť viac
In The City and the World Gregor Hens threads memoir with travelogue, philosophy, photography and references from a wide variety of writers and thinkers to consider the phenomenon of the contemporary city and our place within it. Zobraziť viac
The writer known as M. is living in exile while her home country wages war on a neighbouring state. Wracked by shame and severed from her language, M. finds herself unable to write, unmoored in a present where the future feels unknowable... Zobraziť viac
A city submerged, memories erased. Watch as loved ones vanish, replaced by statues and soap opera ghosts. Navigate a violent labyrinth where reality dissolves. A lucid, nightmarish journey. Zobraziť viac
Combining memoir, reportage, environmental writing and literary criticism, Greyhound is a moving and immersive book that captures an America in the throes of late capitalism... Zobraziť viac
When all else fails, when our compass is broken, there is one thing some of us have come to rely on: music really can give us a sense of something like home... Zobraziť viac
Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person's lived environment. Ernaux captures the feeling of contemporary living on... Zobraziť viac
THE INSPIRATION FOR PILLION, STARRING ALEXANDER SKARSGÅRD AND HERRY MELLINGOn the Sunday of his eighteenth birthday, in 1975, Colin takes a walk on Box Hill, a biker hang-out. There he accidentally trips over Ray, a biker napping under a tree – and... Zobraziť viac
In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas begin to sweep the continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona... Zobraziť viac
