The biographer of Clarice Lispector and Susan Sontag has spent years following the tracks of Dutch artists, exploring their work, their milieux and their subjects. This is a highly personal ... read more
An entertaining whodunnit set in Florence in 1557, with Vasari leading an investigation that involves Pontormo's (vanished) frescoes. Playful and clever, as you would expect from the author... read more
Rosenberg's family emigrated from Sweden to Israel in 1962. This is his memoir of that time, and his subsequent grappling with the hopes, doubts, mythologies, deceptions and erasures that he... read more
By turns tender and brutal, this is an extraordinary debut, written out of Rice's own experience working in a plastic-moulding factory. The poems follow the twelve hours of a night shift. Th... read more
This uproarious, clever classic (originally published 1958) of a young American woman's sojourn in France, her love affairs on the fringes of Bohemia and the film industry, is largely based ... read more
A nail-biter set during the Nazi Occupation of Rome in 1944, as activists smuggle refugees and Allied soldiers to safety behind the backs of the Gestapo.
A vivid and moving account of moving from Delhi to a derelict cottage in an old hill station. An accomplished novelist, Roy's text is augmented by her own watercolours.
A new collection of essays by the great Palestinian writer, author of Orientalism (amongst others) in which argues - with many examples - that it is the job of intellectuals to speak truth t... read more
This second issue 'began as a modest project about awful food and quickly spiralled out of control'... The worst Michelin-starred restaurants in the world, a guide to artificial sweetners, a... read more
This second issue of this already very popular micro-mag includes new writing by Patricia Lockwood, Colm Tóibín, Lucy Ellmann, et al., with Ithell Colquhoun endpapers (the yellow cover rem... read more