''Om udregning af rumfang IV'' er fjerde del af Solvej Balles roman i syv dele. Tara Selter er blevet fanget i den 18. november, i en dag der gentager sig. Uden held har hun forsøgt at vende tilbage til en almindelig fremadskridende tid. Hun har forsøgt at skabe årstider ved at rejse nordpå for at finde vinter og sydpå for at finde solskin og sommer, men så opdager hun, at hun ikke er den eneste, der er fanget i den attende november. I romanens fjerde del viser det sig, at der ikke bare er nogle få, men temmelig mange mennesker, der er fanget i den attende november.

Til mote er et langreisedikt - fire strofer à tre verselinjer per side - på togskinner gjennom Europa. Med motehovedsteder som Antwerpen, Berlin, Paris og Milano i sikte skriver den elskovssyke poeten et hyllestdikt til sin hjertenskjær og et læredikt til deres ufødte datter, Lille Trille. Gjennom dem og i stadig bevegelse ser poeten seg selv og sin fortid og samtid med et nyfødt blikk.

In the fall of 1863, the Union Army controls the Mississippi River and much of Louisiana, as the Civil War rolls on.

Wade Lufkin is a man without a country or a cause – an idle spectator since New Orleans surrendered, he now paints at his uncle’s plantation. That is until he finds an intriguing new subject…

Hannah Laveau is an enslaved woman who stands accused of everything from adultery to insurrection, from magic to murder. But all she wants is to find her missing son – and she will risk her life for it.

When Hannah goes on the run, she must dodge the calculating and merciless local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayou as she flees through Louisiana, from the cottonmouth snakes and tree-lined swamps to the dingy saloons of New Orleans.

In the late 1960s, Leo Gazzara leads a precarious life in Rome. He spends his time in an alcoholic haze, bouncing between hotels, bars, uninspiring jobs, romantic entanglements and the homes of his rich friends. Leo drifts, aimless and alone.

But on the evening of his thirtieth birthday, he meets Arianna. All night they drive the city in Leo's run-down Alfa Romeo, talking and talking. They eat brioche for breakfast, drink through the dawn, drive to the sea and back. A whirlwind beginning. What follows is the story of the year Leo fell in love and lost everything.

Intense, romantic, witty and devastating, Last Summer in the City is a forgotten classic of Italian literature which offers an intoxicating portrait of two lonely people, pushing and pulling each other away and back again.

1971, New York City. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is going bankrupt, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney is trying to keep his head down, his business up and his life straight. But then he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May and he decides to hit up an old police contact, who wants favours in return. For Ray, staying out of the game gets a lot more complicated - and deadly.

1973. The old ways are being overthrown by the thriving counterculture, but Pepper, Carney's enduringly violent partner in crime, is a constant. In these difficult times, Pepper takes on a side gig doing security on a Blaxploitation shoot in Harlem, finding himself in a world of Hollywood stars and celebrity drug dealers, in addition to the usual cast of hustlers, mobsters and hit men. These adversaries underestimate the seasoned crook - to their regret.

1976. Harlem is burning, while the country gears up for the Bicentennial. Carney is trying to come up with a celebratory July 4th advertisement he can actually live with, while his wife Elizabeth is campaigning for her childhood friend, rising politician Alexander Oakes. When a fire seriously injures one of Carney's tenants, he enlists Pepper to look into who may be behind it, navigating a crumbling metropolis run by the shady, the violent and the utterly corrupt.

In scalpel-sharp prose and with unnerving clarity and wit, Colson Whitehead writes about a city that runs on cronyism, threats, ego, ambition, incompetence and even, sometimes, pride. Crook Manifesto is a kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem, and a searching portrait of how families work in the face of chaos and hostility.

Den tause våren regnes som en av de mest innflytelsesrike bøkene i det tyvende århundre. Med denne boken avdekket Rachel Carson ødeleggelsen av dyre- og planteliv gjennom den omfattende bruken av plantevernmidler som utviklet seg etter den andre verdenskrig. Til tross for fordømmelse i presse og fra politikere i kongressen og forsøk fra kjemisk industri på å forby boken, lyktes Rachel Carson i å skape bevissthet om miljøet hos det brede lag av befolkningen i USA og bidro ved det til etableringen av den økologiske bevegelsen. Det er takket være denne boken, og hjelpen fra mange miljøvernere, at skadelige plantevernmidler som DDT ble forbudt i bruk over store deler av verden. Dessverre er det fortsatt en lang vei å gå fra industrilandbruket til en bærekreftig mat.produksjon og Den tause våren fremstår fortsatt som skremmende aktuell.

En februardag i 1972 er Dag O. Hessen på skitur med faren sin i fjellheimen når de kommer over et jervespor i snøen. Den unge Dag overtaler faren til å følge sporet, men etter en halvtimes tid forsvinner avtrykkene etter rovdyret ned en bratt bjørkeli, og de to må gi opp jakten. 50 år senere er han tilbake på det samme stedet for å plukke opp sporet av dyret som unnslapp ham. Faren er for lengst gått ut av tiden, men fjellene ligger der fortsatt, og et sted der ute finnes jerven. Jervesporet er Hessens mest personlige bok hittil. Det er et portrett av norsk naturs mest fascinerende og folkeskye dyr, så kompakt i sin villskap og kraft at det knapt finnes maken. Med en kjeve sterk nok til å knuse de tykkeste lårbein, og styrke nok til å nedfelle et dyr mange ganger sin egen vekt, bite hodet av det, for så å ta det med seg opp i et tre. Å se dyret i sitt naturlige habitat er svært få mennesker forunt. Jerven, og ønsket om å møte villdyret, er rammefortellingen som utspiller seg i fjellnaturen. Men dette er også en fortelling om tid som går og forandringer vi ikke kan stoppe. Om alt som glipper mellom fingrene på oss. Det vi aldri helt kan fange og temme: En barndom som er forbi, nære familiemedlemmer har gått bort, den ville naturen og et naturmangfold som er i ferd med å forvitre. Og til grunn for alt ligger en dyp kjærlighet og respekt for naturen og biologien, formidlet av en våre mest verdsatte sakprosaforfattere.

Being categorised as black and female does not constrain my writing. Writing assures me that I am more the merely blackness and femaleness. Writing assures me I am.

This paradigm shifting essay collection weaves the personal and political in an illuminating exploration of internationally acclaimed novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga's complex relationship with race and gender. At once philosophical, intimate and urgent, Dangarmebga's landmark essays address the profound cultural and political questions that underpin her novels for the first time. From her experience of life with a foster family in Dover and the difficulty of finding a publisher as a young Zimbabwean novelist, to the ways in which colonialism continues to disrupt the lives and minds of those subjugated by empire, Dangarembga writes to recenter marginalised voices.

Black and Female offers a powerful vision toward re-membering - to use Toni Morrison's word - those whose identities and experiences continue to be fractured by the intersections of history, race and gender.

"The Orwell Tour" utforsker livet og arbeidet til George Orwell gjennom de stedene han bodde, jobbet og skrev. Reisen begynner i India, der Orwell ble født i 1903, og slutter i Sutton Courtenay, der han i 1950 ble gravlagt. På et strekk over tre år følger vi historiker og forfatter Oliver Lewis i sin litterære helts fotspor, fra Wigan til Catalonia, fra Paris til Motihari og fra Marrakesh til Eton, og på hvert sted utforsker han hvordan Orwell opplevde og ble inspirert av disse stedene, og hvordan disse stedene til gjengjeld husker Orwell som et litterært ikon.

Henry at Work invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry David Thoreau that has often been overlooked: Thoreau the worker. John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle overturn the popular misconception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing recluse who was scornful of work and other mundanities. In fact, Thoreau worked hard—surveying land, running his family’s pencil-making business, writing, lecturing, and building his cabin at Walden Pond—and thought intensely about work in its many dimensions. And his ideas about work have much to teach us in an age of remote work and automation, when many people are reconsidering what kind of working lives they want to have.

Through Thoreau, readers will discover a philosophy of work in the office, factory, lumber mill, and grocery store, and reflect on the rhythms of the workday, the joys and risks of resigning oneself to work, the dubious promises of labor-saving technology, and that most vital and eternal of philosophical questions, “How much do I get paid?” In ten chapters, including “Manual Work,” “Machine Work,” and “Meaningless Work,” this personal, urgent, practical, and compassionate book introduces readers to their new favorite coworker: Henry David Thoreau.

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher and to wiping out the British Cabinet – an extraordinary assassination attempt linked to the Northern Ireland Troubles and the most daring conspiracy against the Crown since the Gunpowder Plot.

In this fascinating and compelling book, veteran journalist Rory Carroll retraces the road to the infamous Brighton bombing in 1984 – an incident that shaped the political landscape in the UK for decades to come. He begins with the infamous execution of Lord Mountbatten in 1979 – for which the IRA took full responsibility – before tracing the rise of Margaret Thatcher, her response to the ‘Troubles’ in Ireland and the chain of events that culminated in the hunger strikes of 1981 and the death of 10 republican prisoners, including Bobby Sands. From that moment on Thatcher became an enemy of the IRA – and the organisation swore revenge.

Opening with a brilliantly-paced prologue that introduces bomber Patrick Magee in the build up to the incident, Carroll sets out to deftly explore the intrigue before and after the assassination attempt – with the story spanning three continents, from pubs and palaces, safe houses and interrogation rooms, hotels and barracks. On one side, an elite IRA team aided by a renegade priest, US-raised funds and Libya’s Qaddafi and on the other, intelligence officers, police detectives, informers and bomb disposal officers. An exciting narrative that blends true crime with political history, this is the first major book to investigate the Brighton attack.

In The Earth Transformed, Peter Frankopan, one of the world's leading historians, shows that the natural environment is a crucial, if not the defining, factor in global history – and not just of humankind. Volcanic eruptions, solar activities, atmospheric, oceanic and other shifts, as well as anthropogenic behaviour, are fundamental parts of the past and the present. In this magnificent and groundbreaking book, we learn about the origins of our species: about the development of religion and language and their relationships with the environment; about how the desire to centralise agricultural surplus formed the origins of the bureaucratic state; about how growing demands for harvests resulted in the increased shipment of enslaved peoples; about how efforts to understand and manipulate the weather have a long and deep history. All provide lessons of profound importance as we face a precarious future of rapid global warming.
 

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history?

Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a foreign land and the chaos and culture clash that came with it. Packed with hilarious and fascinating stories, this book seeks out to unravel one the world's most complex cultures.

Spanning ten years and all forty-seven prefectures, Chris takes us from the lush rice fields of the countryside to the frenetic neon-lit streets of Tokyo. With blockbuster moments such as a terrifying North Korean missile incident, a mortifying experience at a love hotel and a week spent with Japan's biggest movie star, Abroad in Japan is an extraordinary and informative journey through the Land of the Rising Sun.

En original gjennomgang av kvinners historier, kropper og kunst - og hvordan vi tenker om dem.

Feministiske kunstnere har lenge utfordret hvordan de kan formidle sannheten om sine erfaringer. Art Monsters utforsker denne utfordringen og peker på en radikal arv av feministisk arbeid som omdefinerer estetiske mål, ikke bare reagerer mot patriarkatet.

Lauren Elkin viser sin kraft som kulturkritiker ved å knytte sammen ulike kunstnere og forfattere, og viser at deres arbeid feirer skjønnhet og overflod, følelse og berøring, det personlige og det politiske.

Nevada Berg’s first cookbook, North Wild Kitchen, was chosen as one of the year’s best cookbooks by the New York Times. Now she returns with all new recipes for mouthwatering baked goods that will transport readers back to the Norwegian landscape. Organized according to Norway’s five seasons, the book features ninety sweet and savory recipes and includes traditional baked goods for Norwegian holidays and other celebrations and special occasions. Stunning photography captures the delicate details of Nevada’s mountain farm home, showing how the seasons shape what’s going into the oven and onto the plate each time of the year: Rustic Spelt Crackers, Candied Almond Cake, Wild Blueberry and Oregano Bread, Troll Cream Oatmeal Cookies, or Lefse with Cinnamon Buttercream. Each recipe is introduced by a brief mood-setting text, incorporates the best ingredients each season has to offer, and is also entirely adaptable to anyone’s pantry. Steeped in Nordic tradition, but delivered in a thoroughly modern sensibility, this new collection will enlarge Nevada’s growing fan base while delighting home cooks who have already discovered the pleasures of her unique sensibility.