The Trouble With Being BornE. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: birth, death, God, the passing of time, how to relate to others and how to make ourselves get out of bed in the morning. In a series of interlinking aphorisms which are at once pessimistic, poetic and extremely funny, Cioran finds a kind of joy in his own despair, revelling in the absurdity and futility of our existence, and our inability to live in the world. Translated by Pulitzer

Close to breaking point

Pyongyang grows more prosperous by the day

Flora dies on All Souls' Day

A technology that stretches back to Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage

she knows how to get free candy

And that's okay

It explores many of the country's most famous and best-loved castles

Every single one of Stephen Fry's ties - whether floral

With stunning previously unpublished photographs documenting the end of steam railways of the G

At all costs

a boy on the run from his past

and finally a cantankerous old lady