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“Fresh, original, heartbreaking” Reni Eddo-Lodge “Devastating, hilarious, unlike anything I have ever read. Destined to be a classic” Pandora Sykes Thirteen-year-old Byron needs to get away, and doesn’t care how. Sick of being beaten up by lads for “talkin’ like a poof” after school. Sick of dad – the weightlifting, womanising Gaz – and Mam, […]

Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. The reflection we are faced with, of men and women in prisons literal and metaphorical, is frightening, but it is also a call to arms to […]

Sommaren är ovanligt het. På radion spelas Sinéad O’Connors Nothing compares 2 U. Stewe är på landet med sina föräldrar, tristessen och hemligheterna är lika tryckande som värmen. Men i grannhuset har en äldre kille med solblont hår flyttat in. Deras blickar hakar i varandras. Många år senare möts de igen. Förvandlade, men fortfarande sammanhållna […]

This groundbreaking volume investigates and illuminates a new generation of artists and the ways that they relate to one of art history’s most storied traditions: nude figure drawing and painting. This informative (and occasionally very cheeky) book demonstrates the ways in which new mediums and new technologies are pushing graphic designers to previously untold heights […]

The body remains a battleground. Politicized, conceptualized and increasingly shared, our often-paradoxical relationship with the human form is nothing new, but finds itself heightened in the digitised, virtualised era of the ‘post-industrial’ body. No longer a tool but a work-in-progress, our bodily expectations bound from fantasy to reality, beauty to tyranny, art to commerce and […]

The woods are alive with possibilities: Retreat into nature, meet mushroom pickers, collectors, and explorers. Build cabins and scenic trails, create crafts, or start inspired projects. This is the way to the forest. Step into the woods―refuge and escape and home. Some go there to hike or fish. The people and projects presented in this […]

With an unwavering hand and a riot of color, Marc-Antoine Coulon captures Paris fashion on and off the runway. His pared-down, ultra-glamorous sketches–portraits of designers, screen stars, and his favorite Parisian haunts from day to night–are rendered here with incisive and unique artistry. Coulon’s watercolors, collages, and sketches, paired with handwritten observations and pithy quotations, […]

Åren då Bodil Malmsten lever i självvald exil är också åren då välfärden styckas upp, då vårdcentraler köps av riskkapitalister och det politiskt bruna åter väcks till liv. Väl hemma igen är hon en främling i sitt eget land.