Books - Essays

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

The one and only Zadie Smith, prize-winning, bestselling author of Swing Time and White Teeth, is back with a second unmissable collection of essays.

"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

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

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

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

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

Babies: our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the intensity, bewilderme

How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its forms has been an abid

You’ve just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you’re destined for – what do you do? In Murakami’s wo

For readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris, this hilarious, poignant, and extremely frank collection of personal essays confirms Lena Dun

Med jämna mellanrum blossar frågan om poesins marginalisering upp. Varför läser inte fler människor poesi? klagar någon. Poesin är viktig! Uta

"Jag gifte mig i Jerusalem, jag fick två barn här, jag hade ett hus i Staden och en trädgård, jag lärde mig hebreiska och i Jerusalem har jag skr

From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebo

Peter Englund har i åtskilliga verk försökt skildra det stora genom det lilla, helheten genom delen. I Jag kommer ihåg har han för första gånge

In a small but comfortable conference room, in a publishing house in San Francisco, a group of high school students met weekly over the past year to r

"This little body of thought, that lies before me in the shape of a book, has existed thousands of years, nor since the invention of the press can any

"Every age has its own special difficulties and dangers. The disease which specially threatens this generation is restlessness, distraction, dissipati

"One would hear considerably less of hysteria, of morphine-mania, and of other regrettable characteristics of fin-de-siecle existence, if women were t

"Oh! that the faculty would look deeper into and make themselves better acquainted with the crying evil of obesity - that dreadful tormenting parasite

"If you give anything to a Norwegian (old meat tins are always thankfully received), he will give your hand a silent grip more expressive than many wo

"Directly you are in motion you will feel quite helpless, and experience a sensation of being run away with, and it will seem as if the machine were t

I två omgångar har Lena Andersson deltagit i Sveriges Radios programserie Allvarligt talat, och tillsammans med P O Enquist respektive Horace Engdah