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  • 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
  • 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
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    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
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    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: Wavelength
    Michael Snow: Wavelength
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    An illustrated study of Michael Snow’s “zoom film,” which has become a touchstone for art and film studies. In 1966, at the height of minimal art in New York, artist […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Michael Snow (October Files)
    Michael Snow (October Files)
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    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)
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    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…
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    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
  • Gary Indiana – Last Seen Entering the Biltmore: Plays, Short Fiction, Poems 1975-2010
    Gary Indiana – Last Seen Entering the Biltmore: Plays, Short Fic…
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    Previously unpublished plays and writings by one of today’s foremost satirical authors. Before publishing his celebrated first novel, Horse Crazy, in 1987, Gary Indiana wrote and directed [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Isa Genzken (October Files)
    Isa Genzken (October Files)
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    Generously illustrated essays consider Isa Genzken’s remarkable body of work, from her early elegant floor pieces to her later explosive assemblages. Since the late 1970s, the Berlin-based [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rebekah Rutkoff – The Irresponsible Magician: Essays and Fictions
    Rebekah Rutkoff – The Irresponsible Magician: Essays and Fiction…
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    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
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    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
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    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
  • Victor Segalen – In a Sound World
    Victor Segalen – In a Sound World
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    Works by the polymathic French author Victor Segalen, including a previously untranslated essay, a novel, and a libretto. Victor Segalen (1878–1919) had one of France’s most curious [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Hydroplutonic Kernow (Urbanomic / Redactions)
    Hydroplutonic Kernow (Urbanomic / Redactions)
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    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
  • French Theory and American Art
    French Theory and American Art
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    Many postwar American artists were influenced by French philosophy, literary studies, and social sciences. Accordingly, a number of French authors gathered under the label “French [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Charles Harrison – Essays on Art and Language
    Charles Harrison – Essays on Art and Language
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    These essays by art historian and critic Charles Harrison are based on the premise that making art and talking about art are related enterprises. They are written from the point […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Epiphanies: Life-Changing Encounters with Music
    Epiphanies: Life-Changing Encounters with Music
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    The monthly Epiphanies column – which has been running in The Wire magazine since January 1998 – celebrates music’s transformative power in a series of personal testimonials [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jacques Rancière – The Emancipated Spectator
    Jacques Rancière – The Emancipated Spectator
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    The foremost philosopher of art argues for a new politics of looking The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ben Watson – Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation
    Ben Watson – Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation
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    Lifts the lid on an artistic ferment which has defied every known law of the music business This brilliant biography of the cult guitar player will likely cause you to […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Correspondence: The Foundation of the Situationist International (June 1957-August 1960)
    Correspondence: The Foundation of the Situationist International (June…
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    Letters by writer, filmmaker, and cultural revolutionary Guy Debord conjure a vivid picture of the dynamic first years of the Situationist International movement. Yesterday, the police [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michel Butor/Dan Graham – Conversation
    Michel Butor/Dan Graham – Conversation
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    One day I went to interview Dan Graham about the legendary John Daniels Gallery in New York, which he ran from 1964 to ’65. Right after I arrived, Dan started […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Robert Gluck – Communal Nude
    Robert Gluck – Communal Nude
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    Since cofounding San Francisco’s influential New Narrative circle in 1979, Robert Glück has been one of America’s finest prose stylists of innovative fiction, bending narrative into the service [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth – Chardin Material
    Ewa Lajer-Burcharth – Chardin Material
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    Adapted from the lecture she delivered at the Institut für Kunstkritik, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth’s essay explores the dimension of self-reflexivity in the work of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • John Douglas Millar – Brutalist Readings: Essays on Literature
    John Douglas Millar – Brutalist Readings: Essays on Literature
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    John Douglas Millar’s Brutalist Readings: Essays on Literature is a significant intervention into recent debates on the place of literature and writing in the context of contemporary art. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ken Hollings – Bright Labyrinth: Sex, Death and Design in the Digital Regime
    Ken Hollings – Bright Labyrinth: Sex, Death and Design in the Di…
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    A subtle and sometimes disturbing account of how technology has impacted upon human culture. The Bright Labyrinth is a subtle and sometimes disturbing account of how technology has impacted upon [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Joanna Walsh – Break Up
    Joanna Walsh – Break Up
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    In this “novel in essays,” Joanna Walsh simultaneously flees and pursues an ambiguous partner in an affair conducted mostly online. Traversing Europe, she awaits emails and texts and PMs, awash [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers
    Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black…
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    The life of an unexpected revolutionary with the Black Panthers in Algiers Mokhtefi (née Klein), a Jewish American from Long Island, has had an exhilarating life. In the 1960s, she […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Agnes Martin: Night Sea (Afterall Books / One Work)
    Agnes Martin: Night Sea (Afterall Books / One Work)
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    Agnes Martin’s Night Sea (1963) is a large canvas of hand-drawn rectangular grids painted in luminous blue and gold. In this illustrated study, Suzanne Hudson presents the painting as the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – The Wolves of Eternity
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – The Wolves of Eternity
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    From the internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a sprawling and deeply human novel that questions the responsibilities we have toward one another and ourselves—and the limits of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Vu: The Story of a Magazine
    Vu: The Story of a Magazine
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    The best pages from the sensational photo magazine published in France in the 1920s and 1930s. Established in Paris in 1928, VU combined stunning photography with dynamic layouts and first-rate [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Story of the Tekkieh Moaven: Kermanshah, Iran
    The Story of the Tekkieh Moaven: Kermanshah, Iran
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    The Tekkieh Moaven is a significant religious monument in Kermanshah and one of the most important national memorials in Iran. Following the building’s destruction in the early 20th [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Rock Against Racism: 1976–1981
    Rock Against Racism: 1976–1981
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    An outstanding photography book documenting a movement that rocked the world. Syd Shelton: Rock Against Racism is a body of photographs that Syd Shelton produced for and about the British […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Lesley Chamberlain – Rilke: The Last Inward Man
    Lesley Chamberlain – Rilke: The Last Inward Man
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    An incisive and intimate account of the life and work of the great poet Rilke, exploring the rich interior world he created in his poetry When Rilke died in 1926, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Richard Hamilton – Painting by Numbers
    Richard Hamilton – Painting by Numbers
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    The latest in Richard Hamilton’s series of publications on all aspects of printmaking. Four of Hamilton’s prints are shown here together with numerous stage proofs in order to [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Tracy K. Smith – Ordinary Light
    Tracy K. Smith – Ordinary Light
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    In Ordinary Light, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Tracy K. Smith tells her remarkable story, giving us a quietly potent memoir that explores her coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Jacques Ranciere – Modern Times
    Jacques Ranciere – Modern Times
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    The critique of modernist ideology from France’s leading radical theorist In this book Jacques Rancière radicalises his critique of modernism and its postmodern appendix. He contrasts their [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern
    Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern
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    A major biography—the first in three decades—of one of the most important artistic forces of the twentieth century, the legendary American dancer and choreographer who upended dance, propelling [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The King of Kowloon: The Art of Tsang Tsou Choi
    The King of Kowloon: The Art of Tsang Tsou Choi
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    An icon in his native city, Tsang Tsou Choi (1921–2007) covered the streets of Hong Kong with his graffiti for over 35 years, using a brush and ink to proclaim […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Joseph Beuys Posters
    Joseph Beuys Posters
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    Explore the poster art of Joseph Beuys and discover some of the philosophies that made him one of the most influential artists of the postwar period. One of the most […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Marguerite Duras – The Impudent Ones
    Marguerite Duras – The Impudent Ones
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    Marguerite Duras rose to global stardom with her erotic masterpiece The Lover (L’Amant), which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt, has over a million copies in print in English, has been […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Lol Tolhurst – Goth: A History
    Lol Tolhurst – Goth: A History
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    Following his memoir Cured, a fascinating deep dive into the dark Romanticism of Goth music, a misunderstood genre and culture, by co-founder of The Cure, Lol Tolhurst GOTH is an […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Gertrude Stein – Every Day is To-Day: Essential Writings
    Gertrude Stein – Every Day is To-Day: Essential Writings
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    A gorgeous new collection featuring 26 of Gertrude Stein’s most enrapturing and essential short writings–a carefully curated, accessible entry point into her best and most joyful [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction