Gregor Hens

In The City and the World, Gregor Hens considers the phenomenon of the contemporary city and our place within it. Hens travels the world—from Berlin to Las Vegas to Shenzhen, from Cologne to Santiago de Chile to Paris—reading, walking, and swimming, asking how we perceive the city and how it may perceive us. Threading memoir and personal reflections with travelogue,...

Written with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a life of addiction, from the epiphany of the first drag to the perennial last last cigarette. Reflecting on his experiences as a smoker from a young age, Gregor Hens investigates the irreversible effects of nicotine on thought and patterns of behaviours. He extends the conversation with other smokers to meditations...