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Today, we do not believe in images anymore. This incredulity is, in part, the product of technology. From brainrot to deepfakes, from NFTs to sloppy content, the function of the image is not representation but only the reproduction of capital.In the twentieth century, the machine automated the hands...

The realm of finance has its own ecological logic. Hectocorns offer behemoths poison pills, whales take fledglings to the moon, disappear into dark pools, and form fraudulent daisy chains with one another. The publication examines the slang terms used by traders and other financial professionals. Be...

Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for NonfictionWinner of the 2022 Asian/Pacific American Award in LiteratureA TIME and NPR Best Book of the Year in 2021This evocative memoir of food and family history is "somehow both mouthwatering and heartbreaking. and a potent personal history" (Shelf Aw...

Magisterial and unforgettable - an intimate story of a Scottish Highland glen, from the prizewinning author of BORDER'Brave, intense, unexpected, lyrical and troubling' Rory StewartAn extraordinary portrait of the Scottish Highlands- this is an epic and urgent story of destruction and renewal, told...

A new history of the idea of Europe from Ancient Greece to the presentWhat do we talk about when we talk about Europe? Is it defined by geography? Or is it politics, or shared culture? In Europe, award-winning historian Roderick Beaton tells the story of Europe as never before - as the history of an...

From one of the most enquiring and celebrated biographers - a glimpse into the life and mind of a pioneering naturalist.'Uglow makes us feel the life beyond the facts.'- Guardian'Few can match Uglow's skill at conjuring up a scene, or illuminating a character.'- Sunday Times'Uglow's style is supreme...

With an apparently contradictory and characteristically makeshift term, 'Liberal Fascisms', Slavoj Žižek captures the paradoxical nature of political populism.To see this phenomenon as purely liberal and dictatorially fascistic is to expose liberalism and fascism as two sides of the same coin. The...

Architecture, as we know it, may be coming to an end, and architects only have themselves to blame. The profession is out of touch, refusing to acknowledge the changes in the conditions that they work, or to reflect on how they go about doing their job. In Architecture Against Architecture, Reinier...

features over 100 of the most spectacular interiors from around the world, spanning the entire 20th century to the present day.Including spaces created by leading artists and fashion designers, architects, interior and set designers, this essential collection brings together diverse design talents f...

From legendary journalist Gay Talese, a collection of his greatest reporting on New York City.“Along with Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe and others, Mr. Talese has been acclaimed as a virtuoso of the novelistic New Journalism." —Wall Street Journal“They fly in quietly—unnoticed, like...

A NUMBER 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“An appealing indulgence in nature, food and drink, and, above all, friendships."―The GuardianViolette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her daily life is lived to the rhythms of the hilarious and touching confidences of ran...

A Lit Hub "Need to Read" Novel of the SummerUnearthed after half a century, this radical portrait of a woman who leaves her family to live alone in a woodland cabin will pierce the heart of anybody who has ever wanted to escape.I swear I loved them all, and I did the best I could. And then I left th...

'Excellent' New York Times'An instant classic. Hamlet but with goats everywhere' Washington Post'Beautifully weird, eerie, unexpected - a story for our times' Kevin Barry'A work of genius. Eradication is a beautiful and devastating novel' Luke Kennard'A deft, unsettling exploration of what it means...

Peek through doors and windows to explore a mysterious house in this innovative shaped novelty book for young readers who relish the lightly spooky, from the Caldecott Medal–winning and New York Times bestselling Jon Klassen, creator of I Want My Hat Back and The Skull.Here are the things in this...

A hilarious story full of action and adventure from two highly regarded, award-winning picture-book creators.When Herbie has the sniffles, he stays home from school. It's exciting to have time to play Space Blasters and watch cartoons. But, by lunchtime, he starts to wonder what he might be missing...

At the start of the war, eight-year-old Max Bernot lives with his sister and parents in Lauterbach, Saarland, a narrow strip of territory between the French and German defence lines. His German father, Anton, and his French mother, Marguerite, do their best to shield Max and his sister, Anna, from N...

Conversation-starting and prize-winning international fiction- an extraordinary meditation on violence, conspiracy and the many complex afterlives of the Holocaust'We woke up to screaming. In the doorway stood the silhouette of Samuel Blum, our friend and unconditional protector, now uniformed in bl...

In the ‘middle of life’ Lavinia reviews her frustrations, her solitariness, the grief and the rapture, her seeming companions in a pageant presided over, as it were, by the masks of Owl, for winter, and Cuckoo, for erotic love. , first published in the UK in the 1970s, remains as surprising, fra...

The story of a brief, passionate, life-changing love affair, wrapped up in what might be the greatest romance of all: our eternal human longing for art and beauty.FROM THE GLOBAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR.'She means to save us by telling us stories. She comes closer than anyone else I know' ANN PATCHETT' K...

It's early 2020 in New York, and the looming threat of a global pandemic begins to unsettle the gilded lives of Manhattan's literary and social elite. Now in their sixties, Russell and Corrine Calloway are navigating a new chapter: downsizing from their Harlem brownstone to a penthouse in the Villag...

Northern Irish-born, Kiwi by choice, Nic’s lived through cancer, the death of her three-year-old daughter Kenzie, Parkinson’s, and a heart transplant – yet, somehow, she still gets up swinging.Out of that chaos came Kenzie’s Gift, the charity she founded to help children and young people who...

A guide for anyone whose trajectory through the art world isn’t a smooth upward curve, based on years of research with art professionals.The commercial art world is powered by a convenient fiction: that artists’ careers proceed along an established route, onwards and upwards, with always the sam...

Exploring maternity through the work of artists from prehistory to the present day, Acts of Creation addresses the abiding mother-shaped hole in art history.Long taboo, lived experience of motherhood―and all that accompanies it―has become the subject of urgent discussions within the art world. p...

Reissued to coincide with a career retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris, Nan Goldin’s a deeply personal exploration of female trauma and resistance.One of Nan Goldin’s most important series, this timely publication is set to align with a major career retrospective opening at the Grand Pala...