Books tip top 5

The tip top 5 is a small selection of books and/or magazines. We will share these titles with you but you’ll have to do the judging of the books yourself. Tips and links to releases are always welcome.

Tussen kunst en cash
Arjen Ribbens, Pieter van Os
Publisher: Das Mag
Release date: 04-2021
Price: €23,99 // ISBN: 9789493168831
Aan de hand van dertien spelers uit de kunstwereld laten de journalisten Pieter van Os en Arjen Ribbens zien hoe het patina van artistiek heldendom onder druk van het grote geld ook in Nederland een vrijbrief vormt voor schimmige deals, smoezelig gedrag en soms ronduit bedrog.

De mythe van de staatsschuld
Stephanie Kelton
Publisher: Ambo/Anthos
Release date: 04-2021
Price: €24,99 // ISBN: 9789026355264
De mythe van de staatsschuld is een wijs, provocerend en kraakhelder geschreven manifest voor een nieuwe economische orde, voor iedereen die in deze onzekere economische tijden op zoek is naar houvast. Speciaal voor de Nederlandse editie van De mythe van de staatsschuld voegde Stephanie Kelton een nieuw hoofdstuk toe.

Another Now - Dispatches from an Alternative Present
Yanis Varoufakis
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Release date: 09-2021
Price: €13,99 // ISBN: 9781529110630
What would a fair and equal society actually look like? Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No billionaires. In Another Now world-famous economist, Yanis Varoufakis, shows us what such a world would look like. Far from being a fantasy, he describes how it could have come about - and might yet. But would we really want it?

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino
Publisher: Random House Usa Inc
Release date: 07-2020
Price: €12 // ISBN: 9780525510567
Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self.

What It Feels Like for a Girl
Paris Lees
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Release date: 05-2021
Price: €23,99 // ISBN: 9780241450123
It’s a new millennium, there’s a whole world to explore - and Byron’s happy to beg, steal and skank onto a rollercoaster ride of hedonism. Life explodes like a rush of ecstasy when Byron escapes into Nottingham’s kinetic underworld and discovers the mesmerising Lady Die. But when the comedown finally kicks in, Byron arrives at a shocking encounter that will change life forever.