Olivia Laing spotlights our PORTRAITS IN LIFE AND DEATH re-issue for the Observer's Christmas books gift guide 🖤🤍
'[A] stunning new edition… Sensuous and sensitive, this is a real masterwork.'
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
'There is much here that will fascinate any space enthusiast.' ☄️
HOW TO KILL AN ASTEROID by Robin George Andrews, reviewed in December's issue of the Literary Review: literaryreview.co.uk/apocalypse-d...
THE INVENTION OF PREHISTORY by Stefanos Geroulanos is a Prospect best history book of the year!
'This is a work that makes you wonder how much we actually know—and how much we just project.'
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/6871...
So thrilling to see Liveright's beautiful re-issue of Peter Hujar's PORTRAITS IN LIFE AND DEATH, one of the most arresting photographic books ever published, leading Frieze's 2024 gift guide: www.frieze.com/gift-guide-2...
SOLIDARITY AND STRENGTH to all those striking today!!
There's an entry-level opening in our lovely little team for a Sales & Marketing Assistant! You'd have to spend three days in the office with me but I promise there are actual perks to the job
So great to see Turner Prize-winning artist Chris Ofili honour Emily Wilson's landmark ODYSSEY translation in this brilliant piece! 🌊
www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...
Wonderful to see REAGAN by Max Boot, THE CATALYST by Thomas Cech, ORIGIN STORY by Howard Markel and RAIDERS, RULERS, AND TRADERS by David Chaffetz on the Economist's best books of 2024 list, and keeping excellent company too with so many other Norton US titles!
www.economist.com/culture/2024...
“A timely and very entertaining work of intellectual and political history.”
AMERICA LAST by Jacob Heilbrunn is an FT best political book of the year! www.ft.com/content/ab87...
“Offshore centres sell secrecy. Such secrecy, Harrington argues, is indeed a source of wealth, but also a threat to law-governed democracy.”
OFFSHORE by Brooke Harrington is an FT best economic book of the year! www.ft.com/content/d5fa...
“Rich and learned… [Sinha] offers admirable clarity on the complex political and constitutional developments of Reconstruction"
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SECOND AMERICAN REPUBLIC by Manisha Sinha, reviewed in the TLS: www.the-tls.co.uk/history/mode...
THE INVENTION OF PREHISTORY by Stefanos Geroulanos, reviewed in the LRB: “Geroulanos doesn’t think all prehistory is bad or exclusionary; he objects only to theories that claim certainty and seek legitimacy from an essentially unknowable past.”
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
And TRANSIENT AND STRANGE by Nell Greenfieldboyce made the Telegraph's best science books of 2024 roundup! We simply love to see it!
"Greenfieldboyce reminds us that knowledge is more than just an acquisition: it enables us to feel the world more deeply.” www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...
Truly so wonderful to see LOVING SYLVIA PLATH by Emily Van Duyne on this TLS list, as selected by Elizabeth Lowry; “Dazzlingly illuminating... Hands down the most gripping thing I’ve read this year… Buy her book, read it, believe it.” ❤️🩹
www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
A NEW PHILOSOPHY OF OPERA by Yuval Sharon is an FT best book of the year! "Expect insight, originality and some contentious views that will stimulate debate” 🔥
Best books of 2024: Classical and Pop Music www.ft.com/content/2e2a...
"Let’s put on our critical thinking caps divas" is very much the vibe I'm hoping for from this little blue butterfly
With that said, me reposting a specific piece in an outlet does not mean that I endorse everything else that is published there. And my personal views don't represent my employers. Obviously! I'm just doing my job!
Hello hello! Planning on treating Bluesky like a diary for the coverage that comes in for my books; can't say it will be truly thrilling content but certainly more edifying than what's percolating on That Other Website these days
