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Thelma och Victor älskar bortom tid och rum. Men när Thelma inser att hon har varit värddjur åt ett utsvultet äktenskap, det vill säga älskarinna, förvandlas hon till Haggan. Hon krossar familjefasaderna och den förljugna idyllen, blottlägger klasskillnadernas gap, kulturbranschens narcissism och manlighetens skrävel om Frihet och Integritet. “Haggan” är en roman för den som […]

A visual celebration of cycling presented through the passions and personal memorabilia of beloved menswear fashion designer Paul Smith. Were it not for a serious crash in his teens, fashion designer Paul Smith might have become known as a successful racing cyclist. His cycling career cut short, and after a six-month spell in the hospital, […]

Love’s got everything to do with it. Tina Turner is the Queen of Rock `n’ Roll, a musical icon celebrating her 60th year in the industry. In this dramatic autobiography, she tells the story of a truly remarkable life in the spotlight. From her early years picking cotton in Nutbush, Tennessee to her rise to […]

Barry McGee is an artist who takes uncertainty and unpredictability as his guiding principles. Every exhibition is different. His installations have featured everything from robotic graffiti writers to entire shipping containers and automobiles. Published to accompany an exhibition at Cheim & Read, New York, this artist’s book features new paintings, sculptures, photographs and images of […]

The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most towering figures: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face. Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her an emblem of the seductions – and the dangers – of the […]

Lou Reed, who died in 2013, was best known to the general public as the grumpy New Yorker in black who sang ‘Walk on the Wild Side’. To his dedicated admirers, however, he was one of the most innovative and intelligent American songwriters of modern times, a natural outsider who lived a tumultuous and tortured […]

Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider’s checklist of all you need to know about the world’s most intoxicating cities. Whether you are staying for 48 hours or five days, visiting for business or […]

Hyllad och humoristisk succémemoar om ett år i en bokhandel. I den idylliska småstaden Wigtown driver Shaun Bythell The Bookshop, Skottlands största bokhandel för begagnade böcker. Till hans butik – där över 100 000 böcker trängs i en lokal med vindlande korridorer och sprakande eldstäder – färdas mängder av bokläsare från när och  fjärran för […]