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Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style charts a period in American history when black men across the country adopted the clothing of a privileged elite and made it their own. From the most avant-garde jazz musicians, visual artists and poets to the most unassuming architects, philosophers and writers, Black Ivy looks at how a generation […]

När boken Städa! kom ut år 2000 var den något så ovanligt som en lustfylld bok om rengöring. Den blev snabbt en succé. Mycket har hänt sedan dess och det är därför hög tid för en uppdaterad version av denna klassiska och peppande städbok. Estrid Holm och Lotta Kühlhorn hjälper oss att se städning som […]

Discover the food of Kolkata—the city at the heart of West Bengal in India. Kolkata is an exhilarating city in West Bengal with a vibrant foodie reputation. Considered the cultural capital of India and nicknamed ‘City of Joy’, Kolkata is an amalgam of old and new India, and its cuisine draws influences from far afield, […]

Sylvia Plaths liv, äktenskap och självmord är sedan länge mytologiserade, genom filmer, romaner och idealiserande kommentarer. I första hand är det poesin och romanen Glaskupan som ligger till grund för

A wildly vivid and entertaining chronicle of America’s manned space program, from the author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY US ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY ‘What is it’ asks Tom Wolfe, ‘that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle…and wait for someone to light the fuse?’ […]

An intensely beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of rock ‘n’ roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave’s creation story, a portrait of the artist first as a boy, then as a young man. A deeply insightful work which charts his family, friends, influences, milieu and, most of […]

The dazzling, exhilarating debut novel from one of the most groundbreaking writers of his generation, The Broom of the System is an outlandishly funny and fiercely intelligent exploration of the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold […]

As with all great pop stars, Bowie’s image changed with almost every new album release. This appetite for reinvention, both musically and visually, saw him dubbed the ‘chameleon of pop’. But Bowie’s influence extended well beyond his discography and make-up drawer. His androgynous qualities and public statements on his sexuality proved liberating for those who […]