Drömmar och verklighet : En biografi om Tom Alandh

Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle is an irreverent and highly entertaining fantasy about the playful irresponsibility of nuclear scientists, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. ‘All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.’ Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left […]

At the launch party for her memoir Clothes Music Boys in 2014, Viv Albertine received the news her mother was dying. She left the party immediately and spent a few final hours with a woman who had been an enormous presence and force in her life. In the weeks that followed, Viv was left with […]

“A gift . . . One wonders how the world might be different if works in The Best American Nonrequired Reading were indeed required.” —USA Today Sarah Vowell, author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States and other best-selling titles “gilded with snark, buoyant on charm” (NPR), worked with the students of  the 826 Valencia writing lab to edit this […]

Into the shadows. Noir in the spotlight. Enter a world populated by private eyes, gangsters, psychopaths, and femme fa.tales, where deception, lust, and betrayal run rampant…If your heart rate just increased a bit….

Gray Malin is the artist of the moment for the Hollywood and fashion elite. His awe-inspiring aerial photographs of beaches around the world are shot from doorless helicopters, creating playful and stunning celebrations of light, shape, and perspective, as well as summer bliss. Combining the spirit of travel, adventure, luxury and artistry, Malin built his […]

Tintin och Milou reser till Sydamerika i jakten på ett föremål som stulits från Etnografiska museet – en mystisk fetisch med ett sönderslaget öra, som dessutom flera andra personer är ute efter. De träffar på Arumbayastammen och hamnar mitt i revolutionernas San Theodoros, där den dynamiske general Alcazar regerar och där Tintin verkligen får det […]

Who is the greatest dunker of all time? Which version of the Michael Jordan was the best Michael Jordan? What is allowed and absolutely not allowed in a game of pickup basketball? Basketball (and Other Things)presents readers with a whole new set of pivotal and ridiculous fan disputes from basketball history, providing arguments and answers, […]

Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fonda bumbles, and Preston Sturges runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoonworthy romance. Aboard a cruise liner sailing up the coast of South America, Stanwyck’s conniving card sharp sets her sights on Fonda’s nerdy snake researcher, who happens to be the […]