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Gymnasiale veje og vildveje : et essay om gymnasieskolen 1974-2024

Af Steen Beck (2025)

I Gymnasiale veje og vildveje, der er et kulturhistorisk og erindringsmæssig essay, fortæller Steen Beck om gymnasiets nyere historie fra 1974, hvor han selv startede som elev, og frem til 2024. Her fremdrager han ny viden og vinkler, som overrasker – alt sammen til både fornøjelse og oplysning. I løbet af bogen kommer han bl.a. ind på: - Det store opbrud i 1970’erne, drømmen om en ny guldalder i 1990’erne og de store forventninger til det nye årtusind og den aktuelle trivselskrise. - De politiske påvirkninger fra nøglepersoner såsom Bertel Haarder, Merete Riisager og Mattias Tesfaye. - Et kig mod fremtiden og det, der venter for gymnasiet som helhed med et slanket klassisk gymnasium og en ny epx-uddannelse. Gymnasiale veje og vildveje er oplagt læsning for alle, der arbejder i og med gymnasieskolen, lige fra lærere over rektorer til politikere og andre, som interesserer sig for ungdomsuddannelserne, som i den grad er i offentlighedens søgelys for øjeblikket.
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Ild må der til : artikler om litteratur

Af Klaus Rothstein (2025)

Ild må der til rummer artikler om forfattere som Juliane Marie Jessen, Amalie Skram, Georg Brandes, Henrik Ibsen, J.P. Jacobsen, Tom Kristensen, Egon Mathiesen, Inger Christensen, Rakel Haslund-Gjerrild, Chat GPT og mange andre. Skrevet i et forsøg på at forbinde adskilte punkter til et samlet billede, enten som litteraturkritiske refleksioner, litteraturjournalistiske undersøgelser eller litteraturdetektiviske sporjagter. Klaus Rothstein (f. 1964), litteraturkritiker, forfatter og tilrettelægger af litterære podcasts. Som formidler interesserer han sig levende for måder at få litteratur ud over rampen, hvilket i denne udgivelse bl.a. har det konkrete udtryk, at den første af bogens artikler står på ydersiden – på omslaget. Og så interesserer han sig for forskellige typer genrer, helt ned i den lille kolofonteksts genre, så det er naturligvis en af de mange genrer, bogen beskæftiger sig nysgerrigt og vidende med.
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Skudsårets spejlsal : om krigene i Mellemøsten

Af Thomas Wivel (2025)
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Den kærlighed du har til mig : essays om teater, forblændelser og forbiere

Af Jens Albinus (2025)
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Ad ukendte stier

Af Sylvain Tesson (2025)

Med en passion for bjergbestigning forsøger Sylvain Tesson i august 2014 at kravle op ad facaden på et hus i Chamonix i en brandert og falder ned, hvorefter han bliver lagt i kunstig koma. Han kommer sig efter ulykken, men lægerne fraråder ham al fremtidig klatring og vandring. I 2016 trodser han deres råd og begiver sig ud på en 3 måneders vandretur gennem det Frankrig hans mange rejser jorden rundt aldrig har givet ham tid til at besøge. Ad ukendte stier fortæller han fra de gemte og glemte dele af landet. Sylvain Tesson er en berejst fransk forfatter. Uddannet geograf. I 1991 begiver han sig ud på sin første ekspedition i Island, efterfulgt af en jordomrejse på cykel med Alexandre Poussin i 1993. Det er her, at hans liv som eventyrer begynder. Han rider på hest tværs over de centralasiatiske stepper med udforskeren Priscilla Telmon – en rejse på mere end 3000 km, der strækker sig fra Kasakhstan til Usbekistan. Fra 2003 til 2004, følger han Gulag-flygtningenes rute. Denne rejse tager ham hele vejen fra Sibirien til Indien til fods. I 2010 beslutter han sig for at leve som eneboer i seks måneder i en hytte i Sibirien lige ud til Bajkalsøen. Tesson fik i 2019 den prestigiøse Pr
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Ghana to the World : Recipes and Stories That Look Forward While Honoring the Past

Af Eric Adjepong (2025)

Summary: A transportive, highly personal cookbook of 100 West African-influenced recipes and stories from Top Chef finalist Eric Adjepong. “Sankofa” is a Ghanaian Twi word that roughly translates to the idea that we must look back in order to move forward. In his moving debut cookbook, chef Eric Adjepong practices sankofa by showcasing the beauty and depth of West African food through the lens of his own culinary journey. With 100 soul-satisfying recipes and narrative essays, Ghana to the World reflects Eric’s journey to understand his identity and unique culinary perspective as a first-generation Ghanaian American. The recipes in this book look forward and backward in time, balancing the traditional and the modern and exploring the lineage of West African cooking while embracing new elements. Eric includes traditional home-cooked meals from his mother, like a deeply flavorful jollof rice and a smoky, savory kontomire stew thick with leafy greens, alongside creative dishes influenced by his culinary education, like a sweet summer curried corn bisque and sticky tamarind-glazed duck legs. Full of stunning photography shot in Ghana and remembrances rooted in family, tradition, and love, Ghana to the World shows readers how the unsung story of a continent’s cuisine can shine a powerful light on one person’s exploration of who he is as a chef and a man
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In My Remaining Years

Af Jean Grae (2025)

Summary: A collection of darkly humorous, intensely personal essays by cult fave and multi-hyphenate artist Jean Grae In My Remaining Years , by creative juggernaut Jean Grae, debunks the myth that coming-of-age narratives should be reserved for the kids, providing a much-needed rallying cry for those of us still trying to figure it out in our forties. These laugh-out-loud essays cover everything from aging gracefully (with and without botox), what happens when you look for community and almost start a cult, befriending childhood demons (Hi Mumm-ra!), gender fluidity in middle age, the cost of being too fabulous, and the various gymnastics we do to avoid becoming our parents, taking us from her childhood in 1980s New York City to present-day Baltimore. In these pages, Jean captures magic in a bottle, distilling the feeling of hanging out with your smartest, funniest, and most brutally honest best friend
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The Thinking Heart : On Israel and Palestine

Af David Grossman (2025)

Summary: Searing essays from International Booker Prize-winning Israeli author and long-time peace activist David Grossman carry us up to and through the cataclysm of Oct 7th and what followed We know David Grossman's voice of ringing moral clarity from way back: since the late 1980s and The Yellow Wind, his classic work on the urgency of the two-state solution and the price paid by both occupier and occupied, he has been criticizing his country's government and pushing for paths to a lasting peace. Just after October 7th, 2023, he retreated inwards to ask himself anew these difficult and necessary questions about his beloved nation: How could this massacre have happened? How could the Netanyahu government, tangled in its web of scandals, have failed to protect its citizens? And did October 7 and the war that followed take with it the last hope of a two-state solution? In these eleven essays, which appeared in newspapers and journals at key moments when Grossman wanted to hold the government to account, he traces the failures leading up to that day and the ensuing war, enabled and abetted by a morally bankrupt party clinging to power. He documents the struggle being fought on both sides between those committed to conflict, and the many who want to live in peace and equality with their neighbors. He asks what the meaning and purpose of a Jewish state can be, when the core values of Judaism, with its reverence for the dignity of each human life, are cast aside, and how his people, so accustomed throughout history to being in the minority, have not proved able to exist as a majority with the dignity and humanity that the job demands. Ultimately, Grossman arrives at the most important question of all: Will there ever be a lasting peace in the region?
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Hunger Like a Thirst : From Food Stamps to Fine Dining, a Restaurant Critic Finds Her Place at the Table

Af Besha Rodell (2025)

Summary: A witty and lively memoir from food writer and New York Times contributor Besha Rodell, (formerly) one of the world's last anonymous restaurant critics When Besha Rodell moved from Australia to the United States with her mother at fourteen, she was a foreigner in a new land, missing her friends, her father, and the food she grew up eating. In the years that followed, Rodell began waitressing and discovered the buzz of the restaurant world, immersing herself in the lifestyle and community while struggling with the industry's shortcomings. As she built a family, Rodell realized her dream, though only a handful of women before her had done it: to make a career as a restaurant critic. From the streets of Brooklyn to lush Atlanta to sunny Los Angeles to traveling and eating around the world, and, finally, home to Australia, Rodell takes us on a delicious, raw, and fascinating journey through her life and career and explores the history of criticism and dining and the cultural shifts that have turned us all into food obsessives. Hunger Like a Thirst shares stories of the joys and hardships of Rodell's coming-of-age, the amazing (and sometimes terrible) meals she ate along the way, and the dear friends she made in each restaurant, workplace, and home
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Food for Thought

Af Jeremy King (2025)
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I'll Love You Forever : Notes from a K-Pop Fan

Af Giaae Kwon (2025)

Summary: Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror meets Cathy Park Hong's Minor Feelings in a meditation that blends memoir and cultural criticism to explore how the author's love affair with K-pop has shaped her sense of self, charting K-pop's complex coming-of-age through some of its biggest idols. I'll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan is a smart, poignant, constantly surprising essay collection that considers the collision between stratospherically popular music and our inescapably personal selves. Giaae Kwon delves into the global impact of K-pop artists, from H.O.T. to Taeyeon to IU to Suga of BTS, and reveals how each illuminated and shaped her own life. In using intimate experiences to examine larger cultural topics, this singular work breaks new ground in its consideration of K-pop. Written from the perspective of a bilingual and bicultural Korean American, I'll Love You Forever blends the critical with the personal. Kwon interweaves profiles of different K-pop idols with ruminations on various aspects of Korean culture, from the country's attitude toward plastic surgery and female sexuality to its obsession with academia. Combining insightful critique and adoring analysis, I'll Love You Forever provides readers with a fuller picture of a culturally and socially complex industry and the machine and heart behind its popularity. Above all, Kwon offers up the passion of a superfan, finding joy in K-pop along the way
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Broken Biscuits : And other male failures

Af Adam Farrer (2025)

Summary: Witty, tender and daring essays from the British David Sedaris 'A bold new voice in nonfiction writing.' Jenn Ashworth When it comes to the challenge of being a man, Adam Farrer always seems to find a way to fall short... Broken Biscuits vividly recounts Adam's struggles to live up to masculine expectations, real or imagined. From the calamity of his first serious relationship to an obsession with Prince that sees everyone questioning his sexuality, and from the repercussions of his adult circumcision to his doubts about his ability to survive the apocalypse, this candid and personal collection of essays is astonishingly far-reaching and riotously funny. Holding up a mirror to Adam's own body image, his relationship with his family, his sense of self-worth and the mortifying experience of arriving at a teenage party wearing strawberry-patterned short shorts, this book is about growing up and trying to define yourself as a man but somehow always missing the mark

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