Profetens sista död

I sin nya roman Hemma berättar Judith Hermann om det opålitliga minnet av det som varit. Och om det ögonblick när livet delar sig, en gammal värld brister och en ny föds.

‘I was twenty-six years old and an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America. That’s all that most people knew about me. But beneath the surface, I was full of secrets: I was a drug addict, for one. A pillhead. I was also an alcoholic-in-trainingwho guzzled warm Veuve Clicquot […]

Amine Belhaj är en stilig marockan som strider i den franska armén. Mathilde är en envis kvinna från Alsace som längtar bort. Kriget för dem samman. Ett omaka par, löjliga i vissas ögon: hon är ett huvud längre än honom, romanläsare, frisinnad.

Anyone for tennis? Martin Parr’s unique and evocative pictures capture the spectacle of a year at the Grand Slam tournaments. Since 2014, Martin Parr, one of Britain’s best-loved photographers, has been granted exclusive access to the most prestigious Grand Slam tennis tournaments, from the Australian and French Opens to Wimbledon and the US Open. Parr’s […]

In September, 1964 a cavalcade of motorbikes ripped through the city of Monterey, California. It was a trip destined to make Hell’s Angels household names across America, infamous for…..

From its Polynesian origins to the beaches of California, the art of surfing has become a truly global phenomenon with millions of wave riders living to the rhythm of the tides. While surfing is usually told through a male perspective, women have long been nurturing their own water stories and claiming their rightful place in […]

A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translations. This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Italy. Each story appears in the original Italian alongside an expert English translation, providing unique cultural insight and […]

Under lång tid var det få som kände till de andliga rörelsernas påverkan på den abstrakta konstens födelse. Men när den finske konsthistorikern Sixten Ringboms bok The Sounding Cosmos publicerades 1970 förändrades historieskrivningen för alltid. Genom sin forskning om Wassily Kandinsky, en av den moderna konstens portalfigurer, kunde Ringbom visa hur bland annat Rudolf Steiners […]