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Constructing a Nervous System
cultural Reckonings
2022 || Paperback || Margo Jefferson || Granta
The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and acclaimed author of Negroland boldly and brilliantly fuses cultural analysis and memoir to probe race, class, family and art. Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female body could be - as incarnated by trailblazing Black dancers and athletes - Harriet Beecher Stowe's Topsy reimagined in the artworks of Kara Walker, white supremacy in the novels of Willa Cather, and more, this breathtakingly...
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Like Love
essays and Conversations
2024 || Hardcover || Maggie Nelson || Fern Press
Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson's passion for dialogue and dissent. The range of subjects is wide - from Prince to Carolee Schneemann to Matthew Barney to Lhasa de Sela to Kara Walker - but certain themes recur: intergenerational exchange; love and friendship; feminis...
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Novelist as a Vocation
2022 || Hardcover || Haruki Murakami || Harvill
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels.
Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the sparks of creativity that inspire other writers...
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On Being Ill
2021 || Paperback || Virginia Woolf e.a. || uitgeverij HetMoet
The subtle complexities of Virginia Woolf’s essay ‘On Being Ill’ will no doubt continue to be resonant for a new generation of readers today.
Certainly for both Woolf and Plath, the politics of illness are never far away.
“Illness”, Woolf writes, “makes us disinclined for the long campaigns that prose extracts”.
On Being Ill is a valuable book for everybody who wants to connect with illness through art and literature, and look at it from a different perspective. With the poignan...
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The lines of landscape
2019 || Paperback || Niña Weijers e.a. || Uitgeverij Architectura & Natura
On Women (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Susan Sontag || Penguin Books UK
‘A brilliant, glittering intelligence’ Sunday Times
On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deserves
Written during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays remain strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. At times powerfully in sync and at others powerfully at odds with them, they are always characteristically original in their examinations of...
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The Anthropocene Reviewed (Heruitgave)
essays on a Human-Centered Planet
2023 || Paperback || John Green || Dutton
“Masterful. The Anthropocene Reviewed is a beautiful, timely book about the human condition—and a timeless reminder to pay attention to your attention.” —Adam Grant, #1 bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast Re:Thinking
The instant #1 bestseller from John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down, is now available in paperback with two brand-new essays!
“Gloriously personal and life-affirming. The perfect book for right now.” —People
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The Garden Against Time / Druk 12
in Search of a Common Paradise
2024 || Hardcover || Olivia Laing || Picador
From one of our most original contemporary voices, The Garden Against Time is an inventive and deeply felt exploration of the long dream of a shared Eden, a common paradise.
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Remainders of the Day
more Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown
2022 || Hardcover || Shaun Bythell || Profile
The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to the customers by now.
Don't get him wrong - there are some good ones among the antiquarian porn-hunters, die-hard Arthurians, people who confuse bookshops for libraries and the toddlers just looking for a nice cosy corner in which to wee. He's sure there are. There must be s...
Person Unlimited
an Ode to My Black, Queer Body
2024 || Hardcover || Dean Atta || Canongate Books
An intimate meditation on bodies, age and self-acceptance, from the author of The Black Flamingo