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  • Gabriele Tinti – Bleedings – Incipit Tragoedia
    Gabriele Tinti – Bleedings – Incipit Tragoedia
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    Bleedings – Incipit Tragoedia is a series of poems Tinti composed in the spring of 2020. The epigraphic collections of the National Roman Museum, the Capitoline Museums, and the National [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Zerox Machine: Punk, Post-Punk and Fanzines in Britain, 1976-1988
    Zerox Machine: Punk, Post-Punk and Fanzines in Britain, 1976-1988
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    A visual history of the artists, fans, and fanzines of widely influential British punk. Zerox Machine is an immersive journey through the vibrant history of British punk and its associated […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth, Punk / Hardcore
  • Jan Wolkers – Turkish Delight
    Jan Wolkers – Turkish Delight
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    Upon its original publication in 1969, Turkish Delight was a sensation and a scandal. Its graphic language and explicit sex scenes had an explosive effect, but just as revolutionary was […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Noel Smith – Crazy Man Crazy: Teds Versus Punks And Other Gang Wars
    Noel Smith – Crazy Man Crazy: Teds Versus Punks And Other Gang Wars
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    In 1976 Noel ‘Razor’ Smith became a Teddy Boy and formed a gang called the Balham Wildkatz. Soon they became rockabillies and blazed their way through South London’s pubs and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Alan Moore – Jerusalem
    Alan Moore – Jerusalem
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    In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England’s Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap housing projects. Embedded in the grubby amber of the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Mathias Enard – Zone
    Mathias Enard – Zone
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    “The novel of the decade, if not of the century.”–Christophe Claro Francis Servain Mirkovic, a French-born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Services for [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Joseph McElroy – Hind’s Kidnap
    Joseph McElroy – Hind’s Kidnap
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    A long-ago kidnaping case all but abandoned resurfaces, yet its memory of lives put aside almost screens itself with a population of new life. Neighborhoods of New York, of Brooklyn […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alice Notley – Telling the Truth as It Comes Up: Selected Talks & Essays 1991-2018
    Alice Notley – Telling the Truth as It Comes Up: Selected Talks & Essays 1991-2018
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    “Once again, we encounter Notley as one the great interlocutors of the world, a dedicated advocate for what is between and beyond definition.” –Tess Michaelson, Full Stop Alice [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock
    Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock
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    The first ever oral-history of Krautrock, the sound that changed modern music. West Germany, 1968. Like everywhere else in the Western world, the young generation is pushing for radical change, [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Non-Fiction
  • Claire Donato – Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts
    Claire Donato – Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts
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    The first major book from a longtime legend in underground literature; known by citation and word of mouth, but only now emerging with a work that will earn a broad […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the Fbi, the Kkk, and the Bombers Beyond Their Control
    Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the Fbi, the Kkk, and the Bombers Beyond Their Control
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    New evidence in ‘Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the FBI, the KKK, and the Bombers Beyond their Control’ uncovers the origin of an organized group of racist terrorists committing [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Richard John Parfitt – Stray Dogs
    Richard John Parfitt – Stray Dogs
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    Turner is a high school dropout newly arrived in Toronto. After taking a job selling dictionaries for a local grifter named Romeo Silva, the day goes wrong and Turner gets […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Sphinx and the Milky Way: Selections from the Journals of Charles Burchfield
    The Sphinx and the Milky Way: Selections from the Journals of Charles Burchfield
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    Mystical and everyday reveries from the visionary American modernist In the early years of the 20th century, Charles Burchfield painted mystic and visionary landscapes, and with some of his [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984
    Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984
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    As the Seventies drew to a close and the media declared punk dead and buried, a whole new breed of band was emerging from the gutter. Harder and faster than […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Punk / Hardcore
  • Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place
    Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place
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    Is Lemuria a real place or the fever dream of crackpots, mystics, conspiracy theorists, and Bigfoot hunters? Below the waters where the Pacific and Indian Oceans lies a lost continent. […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Vitezslav Nezval – Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders
    Vitezslav Nezval – Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders
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    Written in 1935 at the height of Czech Surrealism but not published until 1945, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a bizarre erotic fantasy of a young girl’s maturation […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Fluid Futures: Science Fiction And Potentiality
    Fluid Futures: Science Fiction And Potentiality
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    How does science fiction imagine forms of life that are plausible, and yet different from anything that we already know? Fluid Futures is about how science fiction imagines an open […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Monkey King: Journey To The West
    Monkey King: Journey To The West
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    A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Monkey King is one of the most memorable superheroes in world literature. High-spirited and omni-talented, he amasses dazzling [...]

    GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Chris Marker: Early Film Writings
    Chris Marker: Early Film Writings
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    Formative writings by French avant-garde filmmaker Chris Marker It is hard to imagine French cinema without La Jetée (1962), the time-travel short feature by the reclusive French filmmaker [...]

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  • The Wire Primers: A Guide to Modern Music
    The Wire Primers: A Guide to Modern Music
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    Since it was founded in 1982, The Wire magazine has covered a vast range of alternative, experimental, underground and non-mainstream music. Now some of that knowledge has been distilled into [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
    A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
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    The first major biography of the French filmmaker hailed by Martin Scorsese as “one of the Gods of cinema.” Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Kathy Acker & Paul Buck: Spread Wide
    Kathy Acker & Paul Buck: Spread Wide
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    In this collaborative volume, the writer and artist Paul Buck works with the late Kathy Acker. Using as source the raw materials of their correspondence from the early 80s, a […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Giallo Fantastique
    Giallo Fantastique
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    An anthology of original strange stories at the intersection of crime, terror, and supernatural fiction. Inspired by and drawing from the highly stylized cinematic thrillers of Argento, Bava, and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Blake Butler – Aannex
    Blake Butler – Aannex
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    Incorporating hundreds of characters and cultural entities, spanning innumerable locations and billions of years, Aannex is a future-hacker’s maze-map meant to have already been [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Adam Pendleton – Pasts, Futures, and Aftermaths: Revisiting the Black Dada Reader
    Adam Pendleton – Pasts, Futures, and Aftermaths: Revisiting the Black Dada Reader
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    The sequel to Pendleton’s acclaimed Black Dada Reader, compiling an anti-canon of radical experimentation and thought In 2011, artist Adam Pendleton (born 1984) assembled Black Dada Reader, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death Of Danny Casolaro
    The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death Of Danny Casolaro
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    Probably the single greatest work of conspiracy literature. Needs to be read to be believed. Feral House, 2004 paperback edition. Some light corner & edgewear to the wraps. Writing on […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Angela Carter – The Sadeian Woman
    Angela Carter – The Sadeian Woman
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    “Sexuality is power,” wrote the Marquis de Sade. His virtuous Justine kept to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine’s triumphantly [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rene Crevel – Putting My Foot In It
    Rene Crevel – Putting My Foot In It
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    “Imagine, if you can, Freud and Proust sitting down for a chat with Zippy the Pinhead and the marquis de Sade. Then, just when things are starting to get a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • William S Burroughs Jr – Kentucky Ham
    William S Burroughs Jr – Kentucky Ham
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    William S Burroughs Jr’s second autobiographical novel detailing his troubled upbringing by Burroughs Sr and struggles with addiction. Overlook Press, 1984 hardcover edition. Writing and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Terence McKenna – True Hallucinations
    Terence McKenna – True Hallucinations
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    “This mesmerizing, surreal account of the bizarre adventures of Terence McKenna, his brother Dennis, and a small band of their friends, is a wild ride of exotic experience and scientific [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Pan Pantziarka – House Of Pain
    Pan Pantziarka – House Of Pain
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    “When a young streetwalker is picked up by an enigmatic older woman, she finds herself launched on an odyssey of pleasure and pain beyond measure. House of Pain is scorched […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Dennis Cooper – Try
    Dennis Cooper – Try
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    “Simultaneously deadpan and queasily raw, Try is the story of Ziggy, the adopted teenaged son of two sexually abusive fathers whose failed experiment at nuclear-family domesticity has left [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Clarence Cooper Jr – Black: Three Short Novels
    Clarence Cooper Jr – Black: Three Short Novels
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    “Black! brings together three short novels by Clarence Cooper, Jr., a rediscovered genius of African-American writing. “The Dark Messenger” is a short, sizzling novel in which a [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Get Even: The Complete Book Of Dirty Tricks
    Get Even: The Complete Book Of Dirty Tricks
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    “A hilarious overview of the methods people use to get even with big business, government and enemies. These dirty tricks range from the simple to the elaborate, including more [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jorge Luis Borges – Labyrinths
    Jorge Luis Borges – Labyrinths
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    “The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • John Cage – Notations
    John Cage – Notations
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    “Notations is a book that was edited and compiled by American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912–1992) with Alison Knowles and first published in 1969 by Something Else Press. The book [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Charles Willeford – Cockfighter
    Charles Willeford – Cockfighter
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    Charles Willeford’s violently masculine southern noir, loosely modeled on The Odyssey. Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1991 paperback edition. Creasing to front cover, along with some [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Anna Kavan – Julia And The Bazooka
    Anna Kavan – Julia And The Bazooka
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    Anna Kavan’s darkest and most desperate collection of stories, published posthumously. W.W Norton, 1970 paperback edition. Large crease to front cover. Corner & edgewear to wraps. Pages [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Guilty Of Everything: The Autobiography Of Herbert Huncke
    Guilty Of Everything: The Autobiography Of Herbert Huncke
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    An autobiography from a iconoclastic, proto-beat figure. Paragon House, 1990 first hardcover edition. Light discoloration/staining to edges of pages.  

    GENRE: Memoir
  • William H. Gass – The Tunnel
    William H. Gass – The Tunnel
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    “Thirty years in the making, William Gass’s second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, at which time it was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. The story [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Michel Leiris – Nights As Day, Days As Night
    Michel Leiris – Nights As Day, Days As Night
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    Michel Leiris’s dream journal & fragments, including some of his best and most succinct work. Eridanos Press, 1987 paperback edition. Very light wear to edges/corners of wraps. Small [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • A Record Could Be Your Whole World: Vinyl Records as the Total Artwork Of The Late 20th Century
    A Record Could Be Your Whole World: Vinyl Records as the Total Artwork Of The Late 20th Century
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    This is a book about records considered ‘in themselves’. It is not about musicians, or music, or design, or music history — though all those things are considered at various […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Julia Kristeva – Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
    Julia Kristeva – Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
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    In Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Greer Lankton: Sketchbook, September 1977
    Greer Lankton: Sketchbook, September 1977
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    Sketchbook, September 1977 is an early journal by Greer Lankton written during her time as an art student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It offers key […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Hermann Burger – Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis: On Killing Oneself
    Hermann Burger – Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis: On Killing Oneself
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    In the tunnel-village of Göschenen, a man named Hermann Burger has vanished without a trace from his hotel room, suspected of suicide. What is found in his room is not […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Martin Wong: Footprints, Poems, and Leaves
    Martin Wong: Footprints, Poems, and Leaves
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    A rich and engaging facsimile of the artist’s first visual poetry book, self-published in 1968 The paintings of Chinese American artist Martin Wong (1946-99) are celebrated for their [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Marcel Schwob – Spicilege
    Marcel Schwob – Spicilege
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    Exquisitely crafted essays on medieval criminal slang, ancient Greek prostitution, laughter, anarchy and more from the endlessly influential Marcel Schwob “All over the world,” wrote [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Marguerite Young – Miss Macintosh, My Darling
    Marguerite Young – Miss Macintosh, My Darling
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    This novel is one of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of our time. It is a picaresque, psychological novel—a novel of the road, a journey or voyage of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Hamlet in Purgatory: Expanded Edition
    Hamlet in Purgatory: Expanded Edition
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    In Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet’s father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Propaganda and the Holy Writ of the Process Church of the Final Judgment: Process Sex Issue-Fear Issue-Death Issue
    Propaganda and the Holy Writ of the Process Church of the Final Judgment: Process Sex Issue-Fear Issue-Death Issue
    $32.00 | , Add to cart

    The rare and collectible Process Church magazines are back in print. Do you dare find out who rules you? The Process Church of the Final Judgement inspired fear and devotion […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Kate Zambreno – To Write As If Already Dead
    Kate Zambreno – To Write As If Already Dead
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    To Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this […]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Jamie Stewart – Anything That Moves
    Jamie Stewart – Anything That Moves
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    From being caught having their first orgasm by their mom’s best friend to being stalked and propositioned by a fundamentalist pastor; from soliciting spanking dates over the Internet to scoring [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism
    Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism
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    The now-classic exploration of the role of women and the feminine in Buddhist Tantra The crowning cultural achievement of medieval India, Tantric Buddhism is known in the West primarily for […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Expanded Cinema: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
    Expanded Cinema: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
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    Fiftieth anniversary reissue of the founding media studies book that helped establish media art as a cultural category. First published in 1970, Gene Youngblood’s influential Expanded Cinema was [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interviews
    Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interviews
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    The life and work of Maryanne Amacher are as vast as they are little known. In this volume, Amy Cimini and Bill Dietz offer a heterodox and idiosyncratic selection of […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Erik Davis – Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica
    Erik Davis – Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica
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    In these wide-ranging essays, Erik Davis explores the codes — spiritual, cultural, and embodied — that people use to escape the limitations of their lives and enrich their experience of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jonas Mekas: Scrapbook of the Sixties: Writings 1954-2010
    Jonas Mekas: Scrapbook of the Sixties: Writings 1954-2010
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    Andy Warhol, Susan Sontag, John Lennon & Yoko Ono ― Jonas Mekas was well acquainted with a great many New York artists. Born in Lithuania, he came to Brooklyn via […]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Jimmy Desana: Salvation
    Jimmy Desana: Salvation
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    Salvation is a previously-unpublished artist book by Jimmy DeSana that he conceptualized shortly before his death in 1990. The publication contains 44 of the artist’s late photographic [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Stefan Aune – Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire
    Stefan Aune – Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire
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    References to the Indian Wars, those conflicts that accompanied US continental expansion, suffuse American military history. From Black Hawk helicopters to the exclamation “Geronimo” used by [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
    Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
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    A landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction