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Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was […]

The Visual History of Type is a comprehensive, detailed survey of the major typefaces produced since the advent of printing with movable type in the mid-fifteenth century to the present day. Arranged chronologically to provide context, more than 320 typefaces are displayed in the form of their original type specimens or earliest printing. Each entry […]

One-third water, one-third green spaces, one-third beautifully harmonious architecture dating back nine centuries, Stockholm is a city of waterside promenades, canals, elegant public squares and spacious parks, where the Baltic Sea meets Lake Malaren. Take a guided kayak tour through Stockholm’s beautiful waterside suburbs or stroll through the cozy laneways and inviting squares of Gamla […]

Heads of the Colored People interrogates our supposedly post-racial era to wicked and devastating effect, exposing the violence that threatens black Americans, no matter their apparent success.

Ingmar är en pensionerad regissör, änkeman sedan en tid, som lever lite desillusionerat, men nu återfått glädjen i tillvaron på egen hand genom att ägna tiden åt sin frus rosenträdgård. Men sommaren är ovanligt het, det var väldigt länge sedan det regnade och rosorna behöver vatten. På baksidan av huset, gömd bland sly och ogräs, […]

På väg från Atocha är en mycket rolig roman om konstens och konstnärens plats i vårt senmoderna samhälle. Ben Lerners debutroman har hyllats över hela världen där den kommit ut.

From basic sustenance to savory repasts, food awakens the senses and touches both private and public life. It can be political, religious, aspirational, commercial, creative, symbolic, national, and regional. Food’s complexity of form and meaning―and the fact that it’s often at hand―have made it a much-photographed subject throughout the history of photography. Interest in both […]

East London has changed more dramatically than any other part of the city over the last thirty years. From a desolate, and in many places derelict, state after the bombing of the Second World War, it has become one of the most fashionable neighbourhoods in the world, with new developments in Canary Wharf and Queen […]