Books - Essays

The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in

Generöst öppnar rockstjärnan, författaren och poeten Patti Smith sina anteckningsböcker och bjuder in oss i sin kreativa process. Vi följer med

Hyllad och humoristisk succémemoar om ett Ã¥r i en bokhandel. I den idylliska smÃ¥staden Wigtown driver Shaun Bythell The Bookshop, Skottlands stÃ

We are living in a particularly rich period for British short stories. Despite the relative lack of places in which they can be published, the challen

Twenty-three illustrated gothic tales from the dark corridors of the imagination of Tim Burton. Burton - the creative genius behind Batman, Edward Sci

In The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way, Charles Bukowski considers the art of writing, and the art of living as writer. Bringing together a vari

Denna samling anspråkslösa förslag riktar sig till samhället i allmänhet, och staten och individer som känner ansvar i synnerhet. Joakim Pirinen

Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with tw

Beslutet att tilldela Bob Dylan Nobelpriset 2016 blev ett av de mest uppseendeväckande i Svenska Akademiens historia. I denna behändiga volym ger

Rising star Joshua Cohen's first collection of essays, a fully realized work created from a selection of previously published and new nonfiction - ess

Simone de Beauvoirs självbiografiska essä En familjeflickas memoarer berättar med intimitet och stor klarhet om hennes uppväxt i en borgerlig fr

The Yukon River is almost 2,000 miles long, flowing through Canada and Alaska to the Bering Sea. Setting out to explore one of the most ruggedly beaut

If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. Yo

Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of

2015 lämnade Andrev Walden ett undanskymt jobb som AD och började skriva. Idag, tre år senare, betraktas han av många som landets bästa krönikö

When in 1999 I began writing for The New York Review of Books ... my stance became that of the ingenuous Martian who had just landed on a gorgeous ali

Denna bok producerades i samband med Children of the Children of the Revolution, en utställning på Färgfabriken, 14 april – 19 augusti 2018. Bo

Det finns lika många historier om exil och migration som det finns personer som har flytt eller växt upp i utvandrade familjer. Det här är en a

Svenska noveller från Almqvist till Stoor vänder sig till både den nyfikna och experten och kan ses som en systerbok till Svensk poesi som gavs ut

"Mitt tänkande om tillvarons beskaffenhet och människans idéer om densamma har på senare år koncentrerats längs ett fåtal linjer. När jag skri

What is the secret to true friendship? Is it really love’s quieter relation or something stronger and more profound? And where does the line between

Irvine Welsh, 'poet laureate of the chemical generation', exposes the seamy underbelly of rave’s utopian dream. Lloyd, our permanently pilled-up pro

A high-pitched laugh echoes in an empty church. Servants discover their master dead in his bed, the only sign of disturbance an open window. The coffi

How did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it make us happier or unhappier? And what does the future

Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up

How to go on in a world where everything is set against you? With hope? In fear? Or, in violent struggle? In this gripping and disturbing book, Richar

Have you ever dreamt you were naked on stage, or woken having failed an exam? In these fascinating, pioneering essays, Sigmund Freud plunges into the

A soldier falls asleep on duty and is threatened with being court-martialled. An officer lies in mud, fighting for his life and the life of his men. A

Why do we set so much store by marriage? Jane Austen was fascinated by this question, subjecting it to her forensic eye and wonderfully ironic wit aga

"Vad var det egentligen som var så överjävligt - för det var det, mestadels - med engelsk mat? Ja, var ska man börja...? Få har beskrivit den fo

"Jag försöker få överblick över det jag under åren har formulerat om skärningsytorna mellan estetiska praktiker och politik, och om de

Gutenbergs tryckteknik förändrade historien - nyheter, kultur och idéer spreds som aldrig förr. Humanisten Erasmus av Rotterdam knöt nu ihop Euro

The Pixels of Paul Cezanne is a collection of essays by Wim Wenders which he presents his observations and reflections on the fellow artists who have

Bob Slocum is anxious, bored and fearful of his job. So why is it he wants nothing more than the chance to speak at the next company convention? In th

Ingmar Bergman skrev ett hundratal artiklar från 1930-talet fram till 1990-talet, vilka publicerades i en mängd olika sammanhang, såsom fil

"Om en man vandrar i skogarna halva dagarna för kärlek till dem och för att på lite avstånd betrakta sina medmänniskor med opartiskt öga, uppfa

Det kryllar av märkliga män, excentriska damer och brittiska egenheter i Johan Hakelius oefterhärmliga berättelser, som vi samlar i en härligt an

När det kommer till kritan är en infallsrik text pendlande mellan prosaberättelse och poesi där Niklas Rådström med humor och lekfullt allvar t

Big Ideas. Little Books. The twenty books in the Vintage Minis box set bring you the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us huma

På 1970-talet gav sig Joan Didion ut på två långa reportageresor i två kontrasterande delar av USA: Södern och Västern. Genom att förstå Söd

Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction – his essays, literary criticism and journ

Maggie Nelson är en av USA:s just nu mest hyllade författare. Genombrottet i hemlandet kom med Blått [Bluets], en hybrid mellan poesi och essä;

Inger Christensen [1935-2009], född i Vejle i Danmark, hör till de främsta nordiska poeterna i sin generation. Hyllad såväl här som på kontine

'He's like an American Alan Bennett, in that his own fastidiousness becomes the joke, as per the taxi encounter, or his diary entry about waiting inte

When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this disarmingly witty book, Julian Barnes confronts our unending obsession with the en

How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? Tim Parks – lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retre

Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin,

In this inspiring, witty and eminently sensible book, Nigella Lawson sets out a manifesto for how to cook (and eat) good food every day with a minimum

What’s the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating t

How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist William Styron had ever contemplated before. In this

Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water? This is a joyful swimming tour of Britain, a frog’s-eye view of the country’s b

Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines? In this visionary collection, Virginia Woolf lead

Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels race through the stories of those debased and dehuman

Salman Rushdie, a self-described ‘emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two’, explores the true meaning of home. Writing with insight, passion

Your sister might be the kindred soul who knows you best, or the most alien being in your household; she might enrage you or inspire you; she might be

Can we truly know the one we love? In this painfully candid book Marcel Proust looks straight into the green eye of every lover’s jealous struggle.

How do you remember the summers of your childhood? For Laurie Lee they were flower-crested, heady, endless days. Here is an evocation of summer like n

How to be a good father? Children’s birthday parties, unsuccessful family holidays, humiliating antenatal music classics: the trials of parenthood a

Welcome to motherhood – a land of aching fatigue, constant self-sacrifice and thankless servitude, a land of bottomless devotion, small hands and fe

Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city i