Our curated book collections

Women: Overlooked no more

To mark International Women’s Day this month, we propose books written by women about women. All these books have one more thing in common: either their authors or their protagonists...

Women: Overlooked no more

To mark International Women’s Day this month, we propose books written by women about women. All these books have one more thing in common: either their authors or their protagonists...

Tyranny and oppression (February 2023)

"Totalitarian domination … bases itself on loneliness, on the experience of not belonging to the world at all, which is among the most radical and desperate experiences of man." Hannah...

Tyranny and oppression (February 2023)

"Totalitarian domination … bases itself on loneliness, on the experience of not belonging to the world at all, which is among the most radical and desperate experiences of man." Hannah...

(Re)connecting with nature and ourselves

"Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness."...

(Re)connecting with nature and ourselves

"Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness."...

Stories that shape us

“Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it,” Gabriel García Márquez wrote in his autobiography “Living to Tell...

Stories that shape us

“Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it,” Gabriel García Márquez wrote in his autobiography “Living to Tell...

Exiles: In restless search for peace

“Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience,” wrote Edward W. Said in his “Reflections on Exile”. As he continues, “…our age - with its modern warfare,...

Exiles: In restless search for peace

“Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience,” wrote Edward W. Said in his “Reflections on Exile”. As he continues, “…our age - with its modern warfare,...

Inaugural book selection: Visions of Freedom

"Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes", wrote George Orwell. Our freedom of thought, expression, or choice seems to be increasingly threatened by totalitarian governments and benighted individuals. This...

Inaugural book selection: Visions of Freedom

"Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes", wrote George Orwell. Our freedom of thought, expression, or choice seems to be increasingly threatened by totalitarian governments and benighted individuals. This...