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But Beautiful: A Book About JazzLester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano. In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern jazz. He draws on photos and anecdotes, but music is the driving force of But Beautiful and Dyer brings it to life in luminescent and wildly metaphoric

What makes a man turn his back on his past

Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity

Mayer wanted to discover what had made them Nazis

In April 1942

disc jockey

Michael Veitch

Written over the course of Fernando Pessoa’s life

Stalingrad is a magnificent novel not only of war but of all human life: its subjects are mothers and daughters

this visual compendium gathers more than 500 cards and works of original art from around the world in the ultimate exploration of a centuries-old art form

one pitched angrily against the mainstream

and a 1957 New York Times Magazine profile of Griffith

The detail-oriented left hemisphere prefers mechanisms to living things and is inclined to self-interest

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