Thirty more of the mythologies which have made Roland Barthes the most attentively read analyst of everyday life.

A later collection of essays by Roland Barthes, written after Mythologies but working in a similar key. His attentive, ironic style, still mythically precise about the ways culture turns itself into image. Here the Eiffel Tower becomes not simply a monument but a system of meanings about the what is endlessly reproduced for consumption.

Other pieces range across literature, advertising, food, and national identity, tracing how modern life naturalises its own fictions. A blessing to have Barthes in the canon, for those who know him and those who don't, equally a great read.