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Through the sweeping, extraordinary story of his own and his father’s lives, Ai Weiwei – one of the world’s most famous artists and activists – tells an epic tale of China over the last 100 years. Ai Weiwei’s sculptures and installations have been viewed by millions around the globe, and his architectural achievements include helping […]

Inget annat engagerar lika många svenskar lika starkt som fotboll. Enligt Upplevelseinstitutets senaste mätningar definierar sig drygt fyra miljoner av de vuxna svenskarna sig själva som fotbollsintresserade

Can the Asian giant beat Apple? Based on years of reporting on Samsung for the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, and Time from his base in South Korea, and his countless sources inside and outside the company, Geoffrey Cain offers the first deep look behind the curtains of the biggest company nobody knows.

Många såg henne som en prästinna i diktens tempel – men hon var snarare en modern ung kvinna, inställd på leva fullt ut. Karin Boye (1900-1941) tillhör våra mest älskade författare. Men bakom hennes verk låg ett komplicerat liv. I denna biografi ger Johan Svedjedal ett porträtt i helfigur av Boye som frihetsälskande idealist, feminist, […]

The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago’s black elite. She calls this society Negroland: ‘a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty’. With privilege came expectation. Reckoning with the strictures and demands of Negroland at […]

Hatte Stiwenius (1949-2007) is the foremost interpreter of the emergence of punk in Sweden during the 1970s and 8os. His photographs take us into the stage and behind it, introducing us to the people who saw rebellion and liberating freedom in punk. A photographic exposé of an artistic career and a bygone era filled with […]

Lotte Bøk är en medelålders kvinna som är tillfreds med sitt liv. Hon trivs med sitt arbete på Konsthögskolan i Oslo och har ofta fått höra att hon är levande och engagerad i sin lärargärning. Det är konstens oerhörda förmåga att få oss att se världen på nya sätt, att ta ställning och agera annorlunda, […]

Sometime around the turn of the twentieth century, something happened, something… weird. In the dark halls of ivy-clad manors, in the ancient woodland escapes of New England, a generation of authors were inspired to radically reinterpret the horror and fantasy writing of the past. From the terrible plagues of Edgar Allan Poe to the religious […]