Non-fiction
S.H. Fernando Jr. – The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast (2024)
A singular, mischievous and meticulous artist, carefully unpacked.
Non-fiction
Werner Herzog – Every Man for Himself and God Against All (2023)
Herzog has lived many lives and exudes an endless curiosity — as if, as a child, he fell into a Bavarian creek awash with potion and clambered out anew, like some German Obelix.
Non-fiction
Nan Shepherd – The Living Mountain (1977)
Spellbinding descriptions of walking the hills of the Cairngorms
Newsletter
Joan Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking (2005)
Didion's powerful book on grief, injected with remarkable brevity, in which she guides readers through her experience with a striking sense of calm.
Newsletter
Anne Lamott – Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (1994)
“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.”
Newsletter
John Hersey – Hiroshima (1946)
An incredibly raw retelling of the destruction and death visited upon a population almost eighty years ago
Newsletter
Nick Cave & Seán O'Hagan – Faith, Hope and Carnage (2022)
A generous and incredibly articulate conversation.
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Ed Yong – An Immense World (2022)
A monumental book, bound to leave its readers flabbergasted by nature.
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Claire Wilcox – Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes (2020)
An endearing collection of brief essays on the objects that made her who she is.
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Benjamin Moser – Sontag: Her Life (2019)
A landmark biography.