Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer
$38.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
'An incredible book, the best work of criticism I have read in a very long time' NICK HORNBY 'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art and life' JENNY OFFILL A passionate, provocative and blisteringly smart interrogation of how we experience art in the age of ...Show more
The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman
$37.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the bestselling author of But What if We're Wrong, a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about the sin of trying too hard, during the greatest shift in human consciousness of any decade in American history. It was long a ...Show more
The Queer Film Guide: 100 great movies that tell LGBTQIA+ stories by Kyle Turner
$35.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
Enjoy your night in with these movies that tell queer stories. Have you noticed something about every "100 Greatest Movies Ever Made" list? The people in those movies . . . they're almost all straight, white men. With so much incredible cinema to choose from, those lists only begin to peer into the cin ...Show more
Lost in Translation by Suzanne Ferriss
$28.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003) brings two Americans together in Tokyo, each experiencing a personal crisis. Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a recent graduate in philosophy, faces an uncertain professional future, while Bob Harris (Bill Murray), an established celebrity, questions his choices ...Show more
Porn: An Oral History by Polly Barton
$37.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
A landmark work of oral history interrogating everything and anything related to porn. How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral History, her ext ...Show more
Art and Fear - Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by Ted Orland; David Bayles
$28.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
Art & Fear is about the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. Drawing on the authors' own experiences as two working artists, the book delves into the internal and external challenges to makin ...Show more
How to be Invisible: Selected Lyrics by Kate Bush
$28.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
Kate Bush is a true iconoclast and one of the most revered contemporary musical artists of recent years. Since her emergence in 1978 she has forged a creative path which has proved to be both highly innovative and hugely inspiring. Her artistic achievements have helped shape our cultural landscape and h ...Show more
Goddess: Fierce Women on Film by Bethan Johnson, Matt Millikan, Sarah Tutton
$55.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
The screen goddess is a formidable figure, renowned for her power, complexity and so often beauty. From Joan Crawford and Bette Davis to Laverne Cox and Michelle Yeoh, these women disrupted and redefined the female ideal by pushing boundaries, fighting gender stereotypes and transcending tired tropes. ...Show more
How Music Works by David Byrne
$37.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
How Music Works is David Byrne’s buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and myriad collaborators--along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, African villages, and anywhere music exists--Byrne shows ho ...Show more
The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World by Jennifer Higgie
$40.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
It's not so long ago that a woman's expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation, or even killed her. And yet spiritualism, in various incarnations, has influenced numerous men - including lauded modernist artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich and Paul ...Show more
Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise by Katherine Rundell
$20.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
Katherine Rundell - Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children - explores how children's books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children's fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playfulness, can awaken old hungers and create new perspectives ...Show more
Ninth Street Women - Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel
$40.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
The rich, revealing, and thrilling story of five women whose lives and painting propelled a revolution in modern art, from the National Book Award finalist. Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exh ...Show more