In The Ministry of Truth, Dorian Lynskey charts the life of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: one of the most influential books of the 20th Century, a perennial bestseller, and a work that remains more relevant than ever in today's tumultuous world.

De Nederlandse en Vlaamse literatuur heeft de nodige hemelbestormers voortgebracht. Schrijvers die niet met hun rug naar de samenleving gingen staan, maar die meenden dat hun ideeën, geschriften en acties het verschil konden maken. Hun vervoering leverde bezielde boeken op. In 'Vuur!' bloemleest A.H.J. Dautzenberg Nederlandstalige schrijvers die het maatschappelijk engagement niet schuwden. Van Multatuli tot Dimitri Verhulst en van Carry van Bruggen tot Charlotte Mutsaers. In een tijd waarin...

Pégasus is it mytologyske, wjokte hynder fan de Muzen. Dêr't syn hoeven de berch Helikon rekken, ûntstie de welle Hippokrènè. Wa't dêrút drinkt, krijt ynspiraasje om te dichtsjen en te sjongen.

De blomlêzing befettet gedichten fan Grykse skriuwers út in tiidrek fan 27 ieuwen. Dat begint mei in koart fragmint fan Homerus út 750 foar Kr. En beslút mei in moderne dichter út 1950.

Yn it fragmint fan Homerus ferliket de dichter blêden mei minsken: se groeie, bloeie en fertoarkje: de g...

Here are the essential ideas of psychoanalytic theory, including Freud's explanations of such concepts as the Id, Ego and Super-Ego, the Death Instinct and Pleasure Principle, along with classic case studies like that of the Wolf Man. Adam Phillips's marvellous selection provides an ideal overview of Freud's thought in all its extraordinary ambition and variety. Psychoanalysis may be known as the 'talking cure', yet it is also and profoundly, a way of reading.

Here we can see Freud's writings...

A collection of insightful and funny essays from the bestselling and award-winning author. Includes essays on a range of subjects including literature, film, music icons, Brexit, the presidency of Donald Trump and climate change. For fans of David Foster Wallace's "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again".

The author of "Deep South" and "The Great Railway Bazaar"'s body of work is mined for its best bits, brought together here, with profiles of famous people such as Oliver Sacks and Robin Williams, reflections from Theroux's own reading, and extracts from the iconic travel writing.

Amsterdam is een stad van immigranten en heeft door de eeuwen heen een grote aantrekkingskracht op handwerkslieden, handelaren, kunstenaars en gelukszoekers. Nu herbergt Amsterdam meer verschillende nationaliteiten dan New York.

In Amsterdam. Stad van aankomst neemt Eva Cossée de lezer mee voor een wandeling door de stad en geeft en passant een boeiend beeld van de naoorlogse geschiedenis van de hoofdstad. In de haven komen in de jaren vijftig de repatrianten terug uit de nieuwe republiek In...

Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential. Praise of Folly, written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, is Erasmus's best-known work.

Its dazzling mixture of fantasy and satire is narrated by a personification of Folly, dressed as a jester, who celebrates youth, pleasure, drunkenness and sexual desire, and goes on to lambast human preten...

Aged thirteen when Anne Frank went into the secret annexe, Anne kept a diary in which she confided her innermost thoughts and feelings, movingly revealing how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with the daily threat of discovery and death, petty misunderstandings and the unbearable strain of living like prisoners.

The ultimate celebration of the joy and power of clothes, featuring pieces from Charlotte Tilbury, Stanley Tucci, Zadie Smith, Bella Freud, Chloë Sevigny, Rachel Weisz and Eunice Olumide, curated by legendary stylist, Bay Garnett.