Easter is one of those times where even people who don’t usually have time to read feel like it is time to relax and spend a few hours in the company of a book. Here are five suggestions to keep those hours fun and, more often than not, more than a little weird. VANISHING WORLD,…
The opening pages of Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection are lavished with an itemised description of a chic apartment complete with Scandinavian furniture, a geometric berber rug, lush monstera plants and past issues of Monocle and the New Yorker stacked neatly. Originally written and published in Italian as Le Perfezioni in 2022, Perfection is a slim novel…
Believe it or not, this marks the first year anniversary of this column. I hope you had as much fun reading it as I did writing it. But enough of that. Here are five more for you. THE LIFE, OLD AGE, AND DEATH OF A WORKING-CLASS WOMAN, Didier Eribon Allen Lane, pp. 256 Eribon is…
Here’s a selection which this month leans heavily on politics and non-fiction. At a time when it seems there’s little about which to feel hopeful, there remains a lot for us to consider. BLACK UTOPIANS: VISIONS OF HOPE AND RESISTANCE IN AMERICA, Aaron Robertson Chatto & Windus, pp. 400 Black Utopians is the first full-length…
Marking the release of artist Poppy Jones’ eponymous first monograph, published by Zolo Press, Something Curated shares an exclusive excerpt from the new book. Spotlighting ninety works made over the past four years, the monograph is foregrounded by a conversation between Jones and Los Angeles-based artist Paul Sietsema—a segment of which can be read below….
January is the moment of New Year resolutions. “I will hit the gym and scroll less, I will stop binge TV shows and read more,” I tell myself … Let’s see, I suppose. We can but try. With that, here’s a quite eclectic selection of the best books published in the last month to help…
December is one of those downtimes in terms of new releases. Everyone’s attention is focused on presents, and the best books of the year are the ones which tend to get a big boost (for our own list of the standouts in 2024, see here). But this doesn’t mean one can’t find gems if they…
Drafting a reading list is one of those exercises that always come tinged with some regrets. For every book that you decide on including, there are two or three that with the privilege of hindsight you feel should have been afforded the same sort of consideration. Here then are some of my highlights of the…