Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir
1.990 kr.In 2001, Truman Capote’s stylish homage to Brooklyn was brought back into print, but not until 2014— more than fifty years after they were taken—were the original photographs commissioned to illustrate the essay discovered by the late photographer’s son. Also found among the negatives were previously unknown portraits of Capote; none of the photos had ever been published.
Now, with the publication of Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir, with the lost photographs of David Attie, the words and images are united for the first time.
With an introduction by George Plimpton and afterword by Eli Attie.
Enough About Angels: Nobel Lecture
2.990 kr.Human being – astonishing creature – who are you?
Delivered in Stockholm in December 2025, Enough About Angels is the extraordinary Nobel Lecture from László Krasznahorkai. Characteristically brilliant and unforgettable, it is a message about hope, compassion, the force of humanity and how, from our degraded current epoch, destruction might emerge – or rebellion.
The Moment of Cubism
3.990 kr.The Moment of Cubism is one of John Berger’s most important collections of art criticism. Whether considering Vermeer in his studio, Poussin’s poignant meditation on death, or the complexities of Rodin’s sculpture, Berger draws together the threads that bind individual artists to their social and political context. Here Berger argues that Cubism was a moment rather than a movement, one that came and went without the consent of its key figures – Picasso and Braque above all. He makes a case for Cubism’s revolutionary influence. As always, Berger helps us see the world in new ways.
On Freedom
3.990 kr.An expansive, exhilarating work of nonfiction on freedom, by one of the most significant writers of our day
What can freedom really mean?
‘One of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation’ OLIVIA LAING
In this invigorating, essential book, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience or talk about freedom. Drawing on pop culture, theory and real life, she follows freedom – with all its complexities – through four realms: art, sex, drugs and climate. On Freedom offers a bold new perspective on the challenging times in which we live.
The White Album
4.990 kr.Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era―including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall―through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.
Light and Thread
3.990 kr.In this light-filled and multi-faceted book, her first since being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, Han Kang draws together the threads of her work and life, tracing the connections between her interior and exterior worlds through a sequence of essays, poems, photographs and diaries.
A book of reflections, of words and light, it has at its heart the tiny, north-facing courtyard garden at her home, cultivated solely through the reflected sunlight of the mirrors which she must move throughout the day, as the earth turns on its axis.
In a poem written at eight years old, Han Kang imagined a ‘gold thread’ of connection – an idea which she explores here with luminous attention, beginning with her Nobel Lecture. She writes of the wonder of following the thread we call language into the depths of other hearts, and her profound sense of an electric current which joins writer and reader.
Both intimate and illuminating, Light and Thread is a book for all readers of Han Kang’s unique body of work.
Devotion (Why I Write)
3.490 kr.A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture’s beloved artists offers a detailed account of her own creative process, inspirations, and unexpected connections.
Patti Smith, a National Book Award–winning author, first presents an original and beautifully crafted tale of obsession—a young skater who lives for her art, a possessive collector who ruthlessly seeks his prize, a relationship forged of need both craven and exalted. She then takes us on a second journey, exploring the sources of her story. We travel through the South of France to Camus’s house, and visit the garden of the great publisher Gallimard, where the ghosts of Mishima, Nabokov, and Genet mingle. Smith tracks down Simone Weil’s grave in a lonely cemetery, hours from London, and winds through the nameless Paris streets of Patrick Modiano’s novels. Whether writing in a café or on a train, Smith generously opens her notebooks and lets us glimpse the alchemy of her art and craft in this arresting and original book.
The Why I Write series is based on the Windham–Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham–Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University.
The Position of Spoons
3.690 kr.In The Position of Spoons, Deborah Levy invites the reader into the interiors of her world, sharing her most intimate thoughts and experiences, as she traces and measures her life against the backdrop of the literary and artistic muses that have shaped her.
From Marguerite Duras to Colette and Ballard, and from Lee Miller to Francesca Woodman and Paula Rego, we can relish here the richness of their work and, in turn the richness of the author’s own. Each page draws upon Levy’s life in exalting ways, encapsulating the wonderful precision and astonishing depth of her writing, as she seamlessly shifts between and meditates on questions of mortality, language, suburbia, gender, consumerism and the poetics of every day living.
From the child born in South Africa, to her teenage years in Britain, to her travels across the world as a young woman, each page is a beautiful, tender composition of the questioning self: a portrait of Deborah Levy’s writing life and intellectual vitality in all of its dimensions.
Collection Of Sand
3.690 kr.Italo Calvino claimed that ‘the brain begins in the eye’. The essays collected here display his fascination with the visual universe, in which the things we see tell a truth about the world. With encyclopedic knowledge and engaging curiosity, Calvino writes about such diverse subjects as the imaginative pleasures of maps, bizarre exhibitions and the earliest forms of written language. Books and paintings provoke discussions of artistic motivation, while descriptions of a meticulous Japanese garden, Trajan’s column crumbling to dust or a Mexican temple smothered by the jungle lead to contemplations on space, time and civilization.
Surprising and profound, Collection of Sand provides a glimpse into the mind of a master of the imagination.
Italo Calvino, one of Italy’s finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. He died in Siena in 1985, of a brain hemorrhage.
Martin L. McLaughlin is Professor of Italian and Fiat-Serena Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Oxford where he is a Fellow of Magdalen College. He is the English translator of Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino among many others.
The Slicks
3.490 kr.In The Slicks, Maggie Nelson positions culture-dominating pop superstar Taylor Swift and feminist cult icon Sylvia Plath as twin hosts of the female urge toward wanting hard, working hard, and pouring forth – and as twinned targets of patriarchy’s ancient urge to disparage, trivialise and demonise such prolific, intimate output.
The Slicks is a heady, rallying and unexpected melding of popular culture and literary criticism – an inspired treatise and unexpected celebration of two iconic female poets by one of the most revered and influential critics of her generation.
Péturspostilla: Hugvekjur handa Íslendingum
990 kr.Dögum oftar er höfundurinn beðinn um álit, skoðun, ávarp, hugvekju, ræðu, grein eða erindi. Afstaða undirritaðs hefur jafnan verið á eina lund: að segja já – trúr því hugboði að hlutverk höfundarins sé að skipta sér af því sem honum kemur ekki við. Berhentur, umboðslaus, oftar en ekki ólaunaður, en sannfærður um að leitin að merkingu sé leiðin til að ljá lífi okkar merkingu.
Péturspostilla – hugvekjur handa Íslendingum geymir safn erinda og greina sem Pétur Gunnarsson hefur tekið saman í áranna rás. Hér er komið víða við, sjálfsagðir hlutir settir glænýtt samhengi og aðrir sem ekki hafa endilega verið efstir á baugi eru kynntir til sögu með minnisstæðum hætti. Útkoman er lík öðru sem komið hefur frá höfundinum full af húmor, frumlegri hugsun og föstum tökum þess sem kann að láta ‚hugvekju‘ rísa undir nafni og gildir þá einu hvort nærföt eru til umfjöllunar, samgöngumál eða staða íslenskrar tungu.
Þjóðhátíðarrolla
2.990 kr.Þetta ritgerðasafn, sem helgað er þjóðhátíð Íslendinga 1974, hefst á nafntogaðri ræðu höfundar á Þingvöllum 28. júlí. Á eftir fara ritgerðir um forna bókmenntasögu Íslendinga; Forneskjutaut, útfrá átrúnaði í fornöld og siðaskiptunum árið 1000, og Hvað var á undan íslendingasögum?, sem rekur á nýjan hátt samhengi fornbókmenntanna og skilning vorn á þeim gegnum Íslandssöguna. Báðar greinarnar eru stórmerkt framlag til þeirrar lífrænu sögulegu og fagurfræðilegu umræðu um fornbókmenntirnar, sem Halldór Laxness hefir lengi haldið uppi. Það eru einkum þessar greinar ásamt mörgum mannlýsingum, sem skipa Þjóðhátíðarrollu á bekk með beztu ritgerðasöfnum höfundar.
K. K.
The Future of Truth
4.390 kr.What if a lie could be true?
At the heart of this fascinating and iconoclastic book lies Werner Herzog’s concept of ‘ecstatic truth’ – a truth that is often hidden behind the facts and our conceptions of reality but can be gleaned through the poetic imagination, in art, literature and cinema, when we open ourselves up to an aesthetic experience.
Written in Herzog’s inimitable style, these stories, anecdotes and reflections take us from present-day deep fakes and the opportunities and perils of AI to ancient Egypt and Rome, where rulers resorted to lies and propaganda in the same way as governments do today; from Scott and Amundsen’s race to the South Pole to alien abduction claims and the making of Herzog’s own films. With its singular vision and unique voice, The Future of Truth is a compelling meditation on the relationship between fact and fiction – evidence and imagination – by one of today’s most fascinating and idiosyncratic thinkers.