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  • Laszlo Krasznahorkai – Seiobo There Below
    Laszlo Krasznahorkai – Seiobo There Below
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    Beauty, in László Krasznahorkai’s new novel, reflects, however fleeting, the sacred – even if we are mostly unable to bear it. In Seiobo There Below we see the Japanese goddess […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • J.G Ballard – Crash
    J.G Ballard – Crash
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    The definitive cult, post-modern novel – a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism – reissued with an introduction from Zadie Smith. After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • J.G Ballard – The Atrocity Exhibition
    J.G Ballard – The Atrocity Exhibition
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    A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’, featuring an introduction by Hari Kunzru. The human organism is an atrocity [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Adam Wisniewski-Snerg – Robot
    Adam Wisniewski-Snerg – Robot
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    The first English-language publication of one of the greatest Polish science fiction novels of all time. ‘We have given you life … so that you could discover a fraction of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • James Tiptree Jr. – Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home
    James Tiptree Jr. – Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home
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    ‘Unquestionably one of the brightest-burning talents in the constellation of science fiction’ The New York Times. Written under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr., the pioneering and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Andreas Eschbach – The Hair Carpet Weavers
    Andreas Eschbach – The Hair Carpet Weavers
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    In a distant universe, since the beginning of time, workers have spent their lives weaving intricate carpets from the hair of women and girls. But why? Andreas Eschbach’s mysterious, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Kobo Abe – The Ark Sakura
    Kobo Abe – The Ark Sakura
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    ‘One of Japan’s most venerated writers’ David MitchellIn this unnerving fable from one of Japan’s greatest novelists, a recluse known as ‘Mole’ retreats to a [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Dorothy B Hughes – In a Lonely Place
    Dorothy B Hughes – In a Lonely Place
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    ‘The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect’ Daily TelegraphLos Angeles, the late 1940’s. A serial killer stalks the foggy [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Kathy Acker – Blood and Guts in High School
    Kathy Acker – Blood and Guts in High School
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    This is the story of Janey, who lived in a locked room, where she found a scrap of paper and began to write down her life. It’s a story of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Hubert Selby Jr – Last Exit to Brooklyn
    Hubert Selby Jr – Last Exit to Brooklyn
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    Few novels have caused as much debate as Hubert Selby Jr.’s notorious masterpiece, Last Exit to Brooklyn, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Irvine Welsh, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Walter Benjamin – One-Way Street and Other Writings
    Walter Benjamin – One-Way Street and Other Writings
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    Walter Benjamin – philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist – was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Don DeLillo – Libra
    Don DeLillo – Libra
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    An unparalleled work of historical conjecture, ranging imaginatively over huge tracts of the American popular consciousness, Don DeLillo’s Libra contains an introduction by the author in [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Davis Grubb – The Night of the Hunter
    Davis Grubb – The Night of the Hunter
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    Two young children hold the key to a secret stash of money – and a relentless psychopath is on their trail… Harry ‘Preacher’ Powell, his fingers tattooed with LOVE and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ingeborg Bachmann – Malina
    Ingeborg Bachmann – Malina
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    Part detective novel, part love story, part psychoanalytic case study, Malina is a staggering portrait of a writer trying to tell her own story in a world dominated by men. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Russell Hoban – Turtle Diary
    Russell Hoban – Turtle Diary
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    Born to swim thousands of miles in the ocean, the giant sea turtles are now trapped in a tank of golden-green water at London Zoo. But not for much longer. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Russell Hoban – Riddley Walker
    Russell Hoban – Riddley Walker
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    Wandering a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape, speaking a broken-down English lost after the end of civilization, Riddley Walker sets out to find out what brought humanity here. This is his [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Russell Hoban – Pilgermann
    Russell Hoban – Pilgermann
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    It is 1097 and a traveller arrives in the great, walled city of Antioch with a vision of a beautiful and mysterious geometric design that will change the lives of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Russell Hoban – Mr Rinyo-Clacton’s Offer
    Russell Hoban – Mr Rinyo-Clacton’s Offer
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    You want to buy my death for a million pounds!’ Piccadilly Circus tube station is an unlikely location for a pact with the Devil, but this is where Jonathan Fitch […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Russell Hoban – The Medusa Frequency
    Russell Hoban – The Medusa Frequency
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    It all begins the night a leaflet comes through the door of unsuccessful novelist Herman Orff, promising a magical cure for writer’s block. The strange treatment plunges him into a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Russell Hoban – Kleinzeit
    Russell Hoban – Kleinzeit
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    On an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital with a skewed hypotenuse. There on Ward […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Russell Hoban – Fremder
    Russell Hoban – Fremder
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    On 4 November 2052, Fremder Gorn is discovered drifting in deep space. He has no spacesuit, no helmet, no oxygen, but he is still alive: the sole survivor from the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Kobo Abe – The Ruined Map
    Kobo Abe – The Ruined Map
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    A private detective is hired to find a missing person, but nothing is normal about this case. Why has the beautiful, alcoholic wife of the vanished salesman waited over half […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Why Are We ‘Artists’? : 100 World Art Manifestos
    Why Are We ‘Artists’? : 100 World Art Manifestos
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    Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right’. This extraordinary collection of 100 artists’ manifestos from across the globe over the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Georges Bataille – Eroticism
    Georges Bataille – Eroticism
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    A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true ‘churches’, Georges Bataille ranks among the boldest and most [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Georges Bataille – My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man
    Georges Bataille – My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man
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    In these three works of erotic prose Georges Bataille fuses sex and spirituality in a highly personal and philosophical vision of the self. My Mother is a frank and intense […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Georges Bataille – L’Abbe C
    Georges Bataille – L’Abbe C
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    L’Abbé C is a shocking, unnerving narrative about the intense and terrifying relationship between twin brothers. Charles is a modern libertine, dedicated to vice and depravity, while Robert [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Georges Bataille – Blue of Noon
    Georges Bataille – Blue of Noon
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    Set against the backdrop of Europe’s slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Italo Calvino – The Complete Cosmicomics
    Italo Calvino – The Complete Cosmicomics
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    Italo Calvino’s enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures, The Complete Cosmicomics is [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Psychedelic Experience : A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
    The Psychedelic Experience : A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the…
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    The Psychedelic Experience, created by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert, is a foundational text that serves as a model and a guide for all subsequent [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Georges Bataille – Story of the Eye
    Georges Bataille – Story of the Eye
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    A masterpiece of transgressive, surrealist erotica, George Bataille’s Story of the Eye was the Fifty Shades of Grey of its era. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Joachim [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jorge Luis Borges – The Book of Sand and Shakespeare’s Memory
    Jorge Luis Borges – The Book of Sand and Shakespeare’s Mem…
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    THE BOOK OF SAND was the last of Borges’ major collections to be published. The stories are, in his words, ‘variations on favourite themes… combining a plain and at times […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Malcolm Lowry – Under the Volcano
    Malcolm Lowry – Under the Volcano
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    One of the twentieth century’s great undisputed masterpieces, Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano includes an introduction by Michael Schmidt in Penguin Modern Classics. It is the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Paul Celan – Selected Poems
    Paul Celan – Selected Poems
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    One of the major twentieth-century European poets, Paul Celan wrote poetry of exceptional linguistic brilliance and intensity drawn from his experiences, particularly of the war years and the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Silvia Federici – Caliban and the Witch : Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
    Silvia Federici – Caliban and the Witch : Women, the Body and Pr…
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    A cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici’s history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Clarice Lispector – The Passion According to G.H
    Clarice Lispector – The Passion According to G.H
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    One of Elena Ferrante’s Top 40 Books by Women G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white ‘as in an insane […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Edward W. Said – Orientalism
    Edward W. Said – Orientalism
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    In this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation – a way [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Frantz Fanon – The Wretched of the Earth
    Frantz Fanon – The Wretched of the Earth
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    Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961, Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth has provided inspiration for [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Penguin Book of Oulipo : Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form
    The Penguin Book of Oulipo : Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure…
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    Brought together for the first time, here are 100 pieces of ‘Oulipo’ writing, celebrating the literary group who revelled in maths problems, puzzles, trickery, wordplay and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • E.M. Cioran – A Short History of Decay
    E.M. Cioran – A Short History of Decay
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    A Short History of Decay (1949) is E. M. Cioran’s nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid 20th-century Europe. Touching upon [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Yukio Mishima – Confessions of a Mask
    Yukio Mishima – Confessions of a Mask
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    A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Stanislaw Lem – The Cyberiad : Fables for the Cybernetic Age
    Stanislaw Lem – The Cyberiad : Fables for the Cybernetic Age
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    A charming, mind-bending and anarchic book of imagined civilizations’Most cosmic civilizations long for things, in the depths of their souls, they would never openly admit [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Liam Gillick – Five or Six
    Liam Gillick – Five or Six
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    five or six contains texts selected from more than 100 reviews, articles, and catalogue essays published by Liam Gillick since 1989. The book includes some of the formal, social, and […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Thomas Moynihan – X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction
    Thomas Moynihan – X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinc…
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    How humanity came to contemplate its possible extinction. From forecasts of disastrous climate change to prophecies of evil AI superintelligences and the impending perils of genome editing, our [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Philippa Snow – Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment
    Philippa Snow – Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury…
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    A few weeks before he died, Hunter S. Thompson left an answerphone message for Jackass’ Johnny Knoxville: “I might be coming to Baton Rouge… and if I do I will […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents
    Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents
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    An exploration of the unsettling collisions of art and culture in Georges Bataille’s revolutionary journal and a new consideration of twentieth-century masterpieces by Picasso, Miró, Dalí, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Wayne Koestenbaum – The Cheerful Scapegoat: Fables
    Wayne Koestenbaum – The Cheerful Scapegoat: Fables
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    In his first book of short fiction–a collection of whimsical, surreal, baroque, ribald, and heartbreaking fables–Wayne Koestenbaum takes the gloom and melancholy of our own terrifying [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara
    TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara
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    The first biography in English of Tristan Tzara, a founder of Dada and one of the most important figures in the European avant-garde. Tristan Tzara, one of the most important […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Subtitles: On the Foreignness of Film
    Subtitles: On the Foreignness of Film
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    Translating the experience of film: filmmakers, writers, and artists explore the elements of film that make us feel “outside and inside at the same time.” “Every film is a [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • J.G Ballard – Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007
    J.G Ballard – Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007
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    J. G. Ballard’s collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation. J. G. Ballard was [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Revisions: Essays by Apollo Musagète, Yvonne Rainer, and Others
    Revisions: Essays by Apollo Musagète, Yvonne Rainer, and Others
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    The final iteration of Rainer’s dance rant A Truncated History of the Universe for Dummies, accompanied by texts offering a real-time account of Rainer’s creative process. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction