House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed by Sara Gay Forden (HarperCollins, $25)
Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall by Helena Merriman (Hachette, $38)
Empireland by Sathnam Sanghera (Penguin, $26)
McSweeney’s 65: Plundered edited by Valeria Luiselli with Heather Cleary (McSweeney’s, $56)
I’m Dying To Hear What You, Some Guy On The Internet, Has To Say About The Russian Invasion of Ukraine by Carl Osgreaves
We Need To Get Back To Normal, I Say, While I Continue To Live My Life Normally, As I Have Done Throughout This Pandemic by Eli Grober
Better yet, you can buy the McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, which began in 1998 as a literary journal that published only works rejected by other magazines. The New York Times hailed it “a key barometer of the literary climate,” and it’s a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award for Fiction. I cannot emphasise enough that this book is simply stunning, it’s a shame it’s not of coffee table stature. So much so, I’d call it a work of art. The current circulation, McSweeney’s 65: Plundered, is a series of stories about stolen artefacts and endless job searches, of nationality-themed amusement parks and cultish banana plantations, centred on the theme of the violence that shaped the American continent.
Our Founder Murray Crane is flying off this weekend to check on our factories and meet up with our team and partners across Europe. With appointments in Milan, Amsterdam and London, it will be a busy schedule with a number of long haul flights allowing for ample time to read and reflect. Chloe Blades from...
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We’re officially in winter now, and with it comes weather that can tend towards the inclement - not that that’s anything to worry about as long as you have a good umbrella at your side.This season we’ve once again partnered with Fox Umbrellas, one of the most storied makers in the world, and pioneering creators...
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Iconic is not a word I use liberally, but there is no better way to describe the White Lady.Since 1948 it has been serving food to hungry people in Auckland's downtown. I was an early adopter, living in the City when it was a landscape devoid of anywhere to eat or even buy groceries. In...
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