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by Damla “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” - The Great Gatsby, F. Scott [...]
The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Discover the glittering Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers [...]
Written by Sophie. Last year I wrote about reading along with the 2023 Ursula K. le Guin Prize shortlist. Reading along has become something of an annual literary pilgrimage for me since the prize's inception in 2022, so I'm writing about it again (and again as long as the ABC Blog [...]
The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez A solitary ship captain, drifting through time. Nia Imani is a woman out of place. A mute child, burdened with unimaginable power. The scarred boy does not speak, his only form of communication the haunting music he plays on an old wooden flute. A millennia-old [...]
By Lília We talk a lot about equality for women, equal pay, ownership of our own bodies, but we tend to keep sexuality apart. Maybe because in many cultures people don't discuss it in any form. But mostly because if women take over their own sexuality, they can and will ask [...]
By Else Every year, the ABC does a couple events out “in the wild”; basically setting up a pop-up bookstore on location, be it a convention, The Next Web, or at a school fair. In the middle of March, we set up a pop-up bookstore at Made in Asia 2025 in [...]
by Damla As the weather holds the promise of getting milder (she said ever-so-optimistically), the sunshine starts to break through the clouds after a long-awaited wintery interval, and the flowers have tentatively started to bloom, we are more than ready to ring the spring in at the ABC. The spring equinox [...]
By Lauren Last month, ABC hosted the first of our planned Writer’s Nights, where writers, illustrators, editors, publishers, booksellers, and readers come together to share and celebrate stories, whether their own or somebody else’s they’re helping put out into the world. Our talent wall was full with snippets of novels, short [...]
A sweeping and epic love story, The Ghost Ship is the swashbuckling third volume in Kate Mosse's enthralling series, The Joubert Family Chronicles. The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel floats silently on the water — its hull splintered and its sails tattered and burnt. For months the Ghost Ship [...]
By Mike Scoop! D&D initiative Dobbelgangers has made history with the first ever D&D night at the ABC. Six tables spread out over the three floors of our Amsterdam store hosted over thirty first-time and experienced adventurers. Blasts were had in a diverse range of in-game settings, ranging from North African [...]
