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  • Sophie Calle – The Hotel
    Sophie Calle – The Hotel
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    A forensic conceptualist’s inventory of the ordinary and extraordinary lives in a Venetian hotel In 1981 Sophie Calle took a job as a chambermaid for the Hotel C in Venice, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Malcolm Harris – Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
    Malcolm Harris – Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism,…
    $23.00 | ,

    The history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is an “extraordinary” story of disruption and destruction, told for the first time in this comprehensive, jaw-dropping narrative (Greg [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Japan Art Revolution: The Japanese Avant-Garde, from Angura to Provoke
    Japan Art Revolution: The Japanese Avant-Garde, from Angura to Provoke
    $50.00 | ,

    A captivating examination of the avant-garde art scene in Japan in the 1960s and ’70s, and the revolutionary Japanese artists who made it a creative force both in the country […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Copi – City Of Rats
    Copi – City Of Rats
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    “The Holy Mountain” meets “Ratatouille” in this X-rated fable by French provocateur Copi Life isn’t easy for a Parisian rat. But Gouri is getting by: with his best friend Rakä, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean Baudrillard – Seduction [scarce]
    Jean Baudrillard – Seduction [scarce]
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    Examines modern critical theory, feminism, and psychoanalysis, and discusses the modern concept of sex roles and the political aspect of human sexuality. St Martin’s Press/New World [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • John Waters: Indecent Exposure
    John Waters: Indecent Exposure
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    It has been more than fifty years since John Waters filmed his first short on the roof of his parents’ Baltimore home. Over the following decades, Waters has developed a […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Christopher Norris – Hunchback ’88 (Permanent Sleep Edition)
    Christopher Norris – Hunchback ’88 (Permanent Sleep Editio…
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    “Hunchback ‘88 is a book… or a novel mirror of haunted house ferox… or a puzzle in no rush to be solved… or a plot dug in ocean mist… or […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Music from the Hearts of Space Guide – Anna Turner & Stephen Hill
    Music from the Hearts of Space Guide – Anna Turner & Stephe…
    $30.00 | ,

    The Hearts of Space Guide to Cosmic, Transcendent and Innerspace Music by Anna Turner and Stephen Hill 8 x 8.75 in. 116pp 1 color PMS offset with 4 color offset […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction, Synthwave / Electronic
  • 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
  • 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
    $14.00 | ,

    ‘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
    $14.00 | ,

    ‘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
  • 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
  • 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
    $14.00 | ,

    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
  • 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 – 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
  • 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
  • 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
    $19.00 | ,

    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
    $16.00 | ,

    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…
    $19.00 | ,

    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
    $16.00 | ,

    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
  • Liam Gillick – Five or Six
    Liam Gillick – Five or Six
    $9.00 | ,

    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…
    $10.00 | ,

    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…
    $7.00 | ,

    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
    $18.00 | ,

    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
    $7.00 | ,

    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
    $12.00 | ,

    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
    $12.00 | ,

    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
    $12.00 | ,

    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
  • Presence: A Conversation at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich
    Presence: A Conversation at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich
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    Recently, the idea of “presence” has returned to the arts, humanities, and social sciences. In February 2013, in Zurich’s historical Cabaret Voltaire, which was central to the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ben Ware – On Extinction: Beginning Again At The End
    Ben Ware – On Extinction: Beginning Again At The End
    $10.00 | ,

    On Extinction takes us on a breathtaking philosophical journey through desperate territory. As we face ‘the end of all things’, Ben Ware argues we must face our apocalyptic future without […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Moscow Symposium: Conceptualism Revisited
    Moscow Symposium: Conceptualism Revisited
    $10.00 | ,

    Beyond the view that multiple, globally dispersed conceptual art practices provide a heterogeneity of cultural references, Andrei Monastyrski and Collective Actions propose much more: other [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michael Snow (October Files)
    Michael Snow (October Files)
    $10.00 | ,

    Essential texts on the work of the influential artist Michael Snow: essays and interviews spanning more than four decades. Few filmmakers have had as large an impact on the recent […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Medium of Contingency (Urbanomic / Redactions)
    The Medium of Contingency (Urbanomic / Redactions)
    $8.00 | ,

    An unprecedented meeting of philosophical thought, financial markets, and the art world. Why has the concept of contingency taken on a marked importance both in contemporary philosophy and in [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Massacre in Mexico: The True Story Behind the Missing Forty Three Students
    Massacre in Mexico: The True Story Behind the Missing Forty Three Stud…
    $8.00 | ,

    The definitive account of the disappearance of forty-three Mexican students On September 26, 2014, a party of students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College were en route to a protest […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rebekah Rutkoff – The Irresponsible Magician: Essays and Fictions
    Rebekah Rutkoff – The Irresponsible Magician: Essays and Fiction…
    $8.00 | ,

    Sharp, acerbic, and often humorous, Rebekah Rutkoff’s writings about contemporary culture reflect the present in ways reminiscent of Renata Adler’s and Joan Didion’s writings [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Elliott Sharp – IrRational Music
    Elliott Sharp – IrRational Music
    $10.00 | ,

    A memoir and manifesto by a pivotal figure at the junction of rock, the avant-garde, and an ever-widening spiral of art, theater, film, and dance. For over five decades, Elliott […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – In The Land Of The Cyclops
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – In The Land Of The Cyclops
    $11.00 | ,

    In his first essay collection to be published in English, the New York Times bestselling author of the My Struggle series Karl Ove Knausgaard explores art, philosophy, and literature with […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hydroplutonic Kernow (Urbanomic / Redactions)
    Hydroplutonic Kernow (Urbanomic / Redactions)
    $9.00 | ,

    A geophilosophical odyssey through the remains of Cornwall’s industrial past offers a historical portrait of geotrauma in action. This unique document provides a pioneering case study in [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction