Girl in a Band: A Memoir

This voyage is special. It will change everything… One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock hears urgent knocking on his front door. One of his captains is waiting eagerly on the step. He has sold Jonah’s ship for what appears to be a mermaid. As gossip spreads through the docks, coffee shops, parlours […]

Är det herrn som är doktor? Uppsala på 1880-talet. Han har nyss blivit extra ordinarie assisterande stadsläkare och det åligger honom att ha uppsikt över stadens ­ offentliga kvinnor. En gång i veckan under­söker han dem och ibland patrullerar han nattetid gatorna tillsammans med en poliskonstapel för att se till att de inte stör ordningen. […]

Nonagenarian Japanese artist is simultaneously one of the most famous and most mysterious artists on the planet. A wild child of the 1950s and 1960s, she emerged out of the international Fluxus movement to launch naked happenings in New York and went on to become a doyenne of that city’s counter-cultural scene. In the early […]

In his graphic biography Nick Cave: Mercy on Me, Reinhard Kleist paints an expressive and enthralling portrait of the musician, novelist, poet and actor. It is, according to Nick Cave himself, “a complex, chilling and completely bizarre journey into Cave World”. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: An Art Book collects Kleist’s moody and expressive […]

I New England, i skuggan av ameri­kanska inbördeskriget, är de fyra ­tonårssystrarna March – Meg, Jo, Amy och Beth – på väg att bli vuxna. Efter att ha hamnat på obestånd arbetar fadern som

Det onda är en lika rå som hjärtskärande roman om en våldtäkt vars konsekvenser leder till det otänkbara. Debutanten Inès Bayard var bara var 26 år när boken kom ut i hemlandet Frankrike, och sedan nominerades till det prestigefyllda Goncourt-priset.

By the People: Designing a Better America–the third volume in Cooper Hewitt’s series on socially responsible design–examines how design is effectively challenging poverty and social inequality across America. The book explores current social, economic and environmental issues in America with a particular focus on marginalized and underserved communities. By the People features design projects organized […]

The most anticipated book in more than a decade by the legendary band, The Beatles: Get Back is the official account of the creation of their final album, Let It Be, told in The Beatles’ own words, illustrated with hundreds of previously unpublished images, including photos by Ethan A. Russell and Linda McCartney. Half a century […]