Dolly Parton och kvinnorna som levde hennes låtar

Bored of the same old dinner-party chitchat? Spice up your soirées, impress your guests, and show up your brother-in-law with these hilarious, and sometimes dangerous, after-dinner tricks and challenges. Twenty-one daredevil tricks are illustrated along with step-by-step instructions and explanations of the science behind them. From sabering a bottle of champagne to hammering a needle […]

Med avstamp i de sju dödssynderna beger sig Henrik Brandão Jönsson ut på en jordenruntresa för att skildra den osannolika historien om hur ett av Europas fattigaste länder en gång i tiden var världens mäktigaste nation

Allt börjar med att du blir serverad en stor skål till brädden fylld med rykande het buljong. Smaken har maxats med alger, miso, torkad svamp och fisk. Buljongen, som kokat i upp till 48 timmar, har en perfekt yta med små droppar av fett. Tunna spänstiga nudlar ligger vikta i den djupa skålen toppat med […]

Två bröder växer upp i en sverigefinsk familj som älskar monarkin. De fostras att bli kungar, de drillas i överklassens etikett och kultur, deras pojkrum inreds med kopior av riksregalierna. Men denna fostran driver lillebror till en despotisk gränslöshet och ett manipulativt maktövertagande i familjen. För sent inser mor och far att de har skapat […]

“I am in awe of Miranda July. She is the person I want to be, the artist who feels free to work in any number of media, the artist who is so talented, expressive. The First Bad Man is a book that must be read, a book that must be purchased in duplicate – one […]

A visual essay—with text by Eleanor Ivory Weber—that takes a critical stance towards the subjects of housing, urban development and image production. Employing video-stills, photographs and found images, this volume explores the social and political value of the image, in a specifically urban context, emphasizing the fictions present in the (re)production of space. As the […]

El Salvador, 1982, is at the height of a ghastly civil war. Joan Didion travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, considers the distinctly Salvadorean meaning of the verb ‘to disappear’ and trains a merciless eye not only on the terror there but also on the depredations and evasions of US foreign […]

One of the world’s premier collections of horror and sci-fi movie posters amassed, not altogether surprisingly, by the dark mind of Metallica’s lead guitarist, Kirk Hammett. Before Kirk Hammett assumed the heavy metal mantle of one of the most successful and beloved bands in rock history, he was a geek for the imaginative universe of horror. […]