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This week saw the inauguration of Joe Biden into office, marking the end of a particularly fractious phase of American history. The whole ceremony ...

https://granta.com/the-husband-stitch/   One of my favourite stories is about an old woman and her husband – a man mean as Mondays, who scared her ...

Last week on Instagram we posted some photos of Frida Kahlo by the inimitable photographer Gisèle Freund and thought you’d all love to see a little...

Last week we uploaded a post on the life of Georges Bataille and would like to shed some much deserved light onto his former lover Colette Peignot....

This month we have sent you all a very special Sendb00ks package that is currently in the post on the way to you all around the world. There is an ...

Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was a french philosopher and intellectual who lived and died in France. He worked throughout his life to reverse wide...

This morning we came across a copy of Sarah Kane’s ‘Crave’ (which she said she wrote when she had lost faith in love). Kane was a British playwrigh...

This months author Toni Morrison is most famous for her groundbreaking novels that explore the nuances of the Black experience in America. However,...

Nick Cave in Berlin 1985, Stranger in a Strange Land   Nick Cave’s work, both musically and literary, is haunting and ethereal, and with two novel...

For the last couple of years Sendb00ks has been working from a small apartment in Paris, sharing thoughts on their favourite reads, sending hundred...

Tracey Emin Outside Myself (Monument Valley), 1994   Zelinda Zanichelli 

“I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.” I completed Nightwood by Djuna Ba...