Lerato Tshabalala first came to our attention in 2011 with her Urban Miss column in the Sunday Times, and since then she has by turns entertained, exasperated, amused and confounded her fans and critics alike.
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018'A blast, in all senses' Financial TimesIncludes a new preface and extra essaysSmart and provocative, this collection of Laurie Penny's writing establishes her as one of the most urgent and vibrant feminist voices of our time.
In this powerful collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky exposes the problems of our world today, as we stand in this period of monumental change, preparing for a more hopeful tomorrow.
Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015Alain Mabanckou left Congo in 1989, at the age of twenty-two, not to return until a quarter of a century later.
_______________'[An] acutely observed collection of occasional pieces that pick at absurdist life and reveal him to be a quiz, a cultural critic gifted with precise comic timing' - The Times'The author's prose is always a delight a book that manages the high-wire act of being genuinely funny while dispensing genuine wisdom' - Times Literary Supplement'Jacobson is one of the great sentence-builders of our time.
Join Ned Boulting as he reports on his dozen-th Tour de France, an event in which blokes do amazing things on bikes, and, we re oft told, the biggest annual sporting event in the world.
The Lost Diaries is a wide-ranging anthology of the world's greatest diarists, each of them channelled onto paper through the considerable psychic force that is Craig Brown.
Whether celebrating Hogarth or savaging Hollywood, mocking modern manners or defending traditional English architecture, inviting readers to 'come inside' the Catholic Church or expressing his contempt for modish Marxism and American-style religion, Evelyn Waugh's journalism is sparkling, sometimes vitriolic and always full of good sense.
Since Spring 2013, Francesca Hornak has been writing a hugely popular column in the Sunday Times Style section, 'History of the World in 100 Modern Objects'.
Feeding Frenzy - Booker nominee Will Self's dazzling collection of journalism and writing'Self often writes non-fiction as though it were fiction, topping off what we know as reality with the cream of his surreality' GuardianDuring the turbulent years of 1995-2000, Will Self surfed the great wave of olive oil which nearly swept British metropolitan culture away, and produced a series of restaurant reviews for The Observer, whose coruscating criticality led to a cabal of restaurateurs plotting his contract killing.
One of the most important voices in contemporary American journalism - Independent Matt Taibbi is one of the few journalists in America who speaks truth to power - Bernie Sanders Matt Taibbi is the best polemic journalist in America - Felix Salmon NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"e;The thing is, when you actually think about it, it's not funny.
WINNER OF THE KERALA SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARDIn 2008, journalist Arun Ezhuthachan decided to investigate whether the banned dance bars of Mangaluru would continue illegally.
"Wahre Kreise schließen sich"Lebens-Folgen eines sexuellen Missbrauchs innerhalb der katholischen KircheEin Plädoyer für die WahrheitErzählt und reflektiert wird die autobiographische Lebensgeschichte von Walther Thür.
The next instalment in the acclaimed New Yorker 'decades' series featuring an all-star line-up of historical pieces from the 1960s alongside new pieces by current New Yorker staffers.
From an award-winning BBC journalist, this moving book turns the testimony of an accidental hero into a timeless story about the awakening of human courage and conscience.
Der Mann, der beim Spiegel Joachim Lottmann war Als journalistischer Tarnkappenbomber und mittels seiner speziellen Reportagetechnik, die niemals an schnöden Fakten klebt, hat Joachim Lottmann Deutschland inspiziert.
A collection of essays from todays most acclaimed authorsfrom Cheryl Strayed to Roxane Gay to Jennifer Weiner, Alexander Chee, Nick Hornby, and Jonathan Franzenon the realities of making a living in the writing world.
'A collection of intimate and heartfelt confessions of what love means, each with a wonderfully expressive colour portrait' Guardian 'Will restore your faith in the world' New York Post Award-winning journalist and documentary maker Stefania Rousselle had stopped believing in love.
Im Juni 1966 berichteten alle deutschen Zeitungen auf Seite eins über die Verhaftung eines 19-jährigen Metzgergesellen, der auf unvorstellbar grausame Weise vier Schuljungen missbraucht und zu Tode gequält hatte.
En esta selección inédita de algunos de los espléndidos artículos periodísticos publicados por Joseph Roth entre 1918 y 1938, el autor deslumbra por su mirada humanista llena de humor y por la precisión y belleza de su prosa.
Was wir vom Tod fürs Leben lernen könnenChristoph Kuckelkorn, Bestatter aus Köln, führt ein "Doppelleben": Zum einen lenkt er eines der ältesten Bestattungsunternehmen in Deutschland, gleichzeitig fungiert er als Präsident des Festkomitees des Kölner Karnevals.
Ernst Fischer über• die Möglichkeit linker Politik• das Klassenbewußtsein• die Diktatur des Proletariats• den Marxismus nach Lenin• die Spaltung zwischen Sowjetunion und China• die Suche nach einem sozialistischen Modell für die Bundesrepublik• die Stabilität des Kapitalismus• Marxismus und Religion• Beat und linke Politik• die Notwendigkeit der Revolution
Eine Reise als Herausforderung, Ordibehescht 1396: Drei Wochen Iran im Mai 2017, ein Land, überfrachtet mit Klischees, Behauptungen, politischen und religiösen Vorstellungen.
Antología de crónicas de Gaziel acerca de la ciudad de Barcelona, publicadas en La Vanguardia entre 1919 y 1933, las cuales el propio autor escogió para una futura publicación que permaneció inédita durante su vida.
