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“You Talkin’ to Me?”is a fun, fascinating, and exhaustively reported look at all the iconic Hollywood movie quotes we know and love, from Casablanca to Dirty Harry and The Godfather to Mean Girls. Drawing on interviews, archival sleuthing, and behind-the-scenes details, the book examines the origins and deeper meanings of hundreds of film lines: how they’ve impacted, shaped, and reverberated through the […]

Seasonal recipes and expert planting guides from Great Dixter, Christopher Lloyd’s quintessential English country garden The Great Dixter Cookbook features seventy simple and delicious seasonal recipes from the kitchen garden at Great Dixter, the historic house and garden located on the borders of Kent and Sussex. Dishes included range from English classics such as chicken […]

Excerpts from art critic, historian, lecturer and broadcaster James Hall’s lively and comprehensive cultural history of self-portraiture, including such artists as Dürer, Gentileschi, Van Gogh and Kahlo. Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across the arts. Mixing classic and contemporary texts, reissues and […]

‘Just downright brilliant… a transcendent, transporting experience’ Observer A motherless girl grows up in isolated luxury, hidden from the world by her wealthy father. She believes their life together is normal – but as time passes, she has a growing sense that something between them is very wrong. She cannot escape, so she seeks solace […]

I Thiert försöker en kulturpolis fastslå om ett stycke konstmusik kan vara antikommunistiskt och därmed åtalbart. I Aspudden rånas ett postkontor. I Bologna simulerar Laura Lifkas ett epileptiskt anfall. I Paris skjuter anarkisten Germaine Berton rojalisten Marius Plateau. En välklädd herre fyller kundvagnen med varor medan han talar för sig själv om ett hemligt uppdrag […]

Anna anländer till en universitetsstad i Tjeckien för att doktorera i moralfilosofi. Hennes handledare möter henne vid stationen, och spänningen mellan dem är påtaglig

Etiopien, 1935. Med hotet om Mussolinis styrkors antågande hängande över dalen försöker Hirut, som nyligen förlorat sina föräldrar, anpassa sig till livet som barnflicka hos Kidane, som är officer i kejsar Haile Selassies armé. Han är i full färd med att mobilisera sina starkaste män inför italienarnas invasion. Men när de dåligt utrustade och illa […]

Every day, James O’Brien listens to people blaming hard-working immigrants for stealing their jobs while scrounging benefits, and pointing their fingers at the EU and feminists for destroying B