Melancholy I-II is a fictional invocation of the nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, who painted luminous landscapes, suffered mental illness and died poor in 1902.
A landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustin Fernandez Mallo's Nocilla Trilogy charts a hidden and exhilarating cartography of contemporary experience.
Through a sweeping historical overview of suicide, a moving literary survey of famous suicide notes, and a psychological analysis of himself, Simon Critchley offers us an insight into what it means to possess the all too human gift and curse of being of being able to choose life or death.
A prismatic memoir of loss and reckoning, as a young woman seeks to discover the lives of the parents she lost to AIDS, and what it means to 'go viral' in an era of explosive contagion.