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James Purdy – Eustace Chisholm & the Works: A Novel
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartNo James Purdy novel has dazzled contemporary writers more than this haunting tale of unrequited love in an indifferent world. A seedy depression-era boarding house in Chicago plays host to […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
David Goodis – Black Friday
$4.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom the author of Dark Passage and Shoot the Piano Player, a thriller about the dark ethics of crime, and the man unlucky enough to violate them. With its chilling […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Surrealism in Latin America: Vivísimo Muerto
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis collection of essays—the first major account of surrealism in Latin America that covers both literary and visual production—explores the role the movement played in the construction and [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama―Manhattan, 1970–1980
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn this important volume, Jay Sanders and J. Hoberman explore the vibrant underground performance art scene of 1970s New York. Focusing on little-known and long-forgotten works, which were often [...]
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Douglas Kahn – Energies in the Arts
$15.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis book investigates energies—in the plural, the energies embedded and embodied in everything under the sun— as they are expressed in the arts. With contributions from scholars and critics from [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartRoots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the négritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its primary research areas, this work uses […]
GENRE: International, Non-Fiction -
Jonas Mekas – A Dance with Fred Astaire
$15.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartA Dance with Fred Astaire is an extraordinary collection of anecdotes and rare ephemera featuring a dizzying cast of cultural icons both underground and mainstream, both obscure and celebrated. [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Conceptual Art in Britain: 1964–1979
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFeaturing some of the most exciting artworks of the 20th century, this is the first book to explore the rich history of conceptual art in Britain during a key period […]
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Black Soundscapes White Stages :The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartBlack Soundscapes White Stages explores the role of sound in understanding the African Diaspora on both sides of the Atlantic, from the City of Light to the islands of the […]
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Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe first book to comprehensively examine how the Black Panther Party has directly shaped the practices and ideas that have animated grassroots activism in the decades since its decline, Black [...]
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Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected Takes 1965-1987
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn unblinking portrait of the anticolonial struggles of the 1960s, Concerning Violence combines more than one hundred and fifty arresting color and black-and-white photographs from Göran Hugo [...]
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Robin Brown – Blood Ivory: The Massacre of the African Elephant
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIt is more than a thousand years since the exploitation of the elephant began. However, it is only in the last hundred years, with the coming of the ‘Great White […]
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The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century down the Royal Road
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartRethinking the importance of Sigmund Freud’s landmark book The Interpretation of Dreams a century after its publication in 1900, this work brings together psychoanalysts, philosophers, cultural [...]
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Whole World in an Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression – 1955-1972
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartHow the radical music of the 1960s was birthed amid unprecedented upheaval and systemic repression. Decades since the radical music of the 1960s first hit the airwaves, the anthems of […]
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Noel Lobley – Sound Fragments: From Field Recording to African Electronic Stories
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis book is an ethnographic study of sound archives and the processes of creative decolonization that form alternative modes of archiving and curating in the 21st century. It explores the […]
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Allan Marett – Songs, Dreamings, & Ghosts
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartAboriginal musicians receive songs both from an eternal realm known as The Dreaming and from the ghosts of deceased ancestors. Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts is the first book-length study of […]
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Musicking Bodies: Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music (NO DUSTJACKET)
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIndian vocalists trace intricate shapes with their hands while improvising melody. Although every vocalist has an idiosyncratic gestural style, students inherit ways of shaping melodic space from [...]
GENRE: Hindustani, Non-Fiction -
James McBride – Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartKill ’Em and Leave is more than a book about James Brown. Brown embodied the contradictions of American life: He was an unsettling symbol of the tensions between North and South, […]
GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco -
Graeme Thomson – I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death by Murder, Suicide, Fire, Flood, Drugs, Disease and General Misadventure, as Related in Popular Song
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartWhat do the gangsta rap devotee, the grizzled blues fanatic, the bearded folk fan, the goth and the indie kid have in common? Ask and they will all say the […]
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The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’s,and the Remaking of Modern Music
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cart“It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions.” Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue is […]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction -
Steven Miller – War After Death: On Violence and Its Limits
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartWar after Death considers forms of violence that regularly occur in actual wars but do not often factor into the stories we tell about war, which revolve invariably around killing […]
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Drugs of the Dreaming: Oneirogens: Salvia divinorum and Other Dream-Enhancing Plants
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartOneirogens are plant and animal substances that have long been used to facilitate powerful and productive dreaming. From the beginning of civilization, dreams have guided the inner and outer life [...]
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Geoffrey Pimm – The Violent Abuse of Women in 17th and 18th Century Britain
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are the gateway between the medieval world and the modern, centuries when the western societies moved from an age governed principally by religion and [...]
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Henri Cole – Orphic Paris
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartHenri Cole’s Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning American poet, [...]
GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction -
The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartSince the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books. But in the twentieth-century despots enjoyed unprecedented print runs to (literally) captive audiences. The titans of the [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume I, 1957-1969
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFor fifty years Samuel Delany has cultivated a special relationship with language in works of fiction, criticism, and memoir that have garnered critical praise and legions of fans. The present [...]
GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction -
Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830–1930
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn this highly original and critically informed book, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman looks at how, during the first decades following political independence, writers in the United States and Brazil [...]
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Bokutotsusô: Studies on the Calligraphy of the Zen Master Musô Soseki
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartMusô Soseki (1275-1351), one of the most important Zen patriarchs of the early fourteenth century in Japan, devoted his life to spreading Buddhist wisdom in his writings. As a member […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartWhile the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari became an international film classic, its director, Robert Wiene, was disparaged and even forgotten. Wiene’s oeuvre, however, exhibits a surprising [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Luigi Pirandello – Stories for the Years
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartRegarded as one of Europe’s great modernists, Pirandello was also a master storyteller, a fine observer of the drama of daily life with a remarkable ear for dialogue and a […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Michael McClure – Rain Mirror: New Poems
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Rain Mirror”, writes poet Michael McClure, “is my most bare and forthright book. It contains two long poems, ‘Crisis Blossom’ and ‘Haiku Edge’ which are [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Sophocles – Oedipus at Kolonos: A New Translation
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartAmong the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Oedipus at Kolonos is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Natasha Trethewey – Monument: Poems New and Selected
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartLayering joy and urgent defiance―against physical and cultural erasure, against white supremacy whether intangible or graven in stone―Trethewey’s work gives pedestal and witness to unsung icons. [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Mikheil Javakhishvili – Kvachi
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis is, in brief, the story of a swindler, a Georgian Felix Krull, or perhaps a cynical Don Quixote, named Kvachi Kvachantiradze: womanizer, cheat, perpetrator of insurance fraud, bank-robber, [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Here & Elsewhere: The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Burke
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe rhetorically gorgeous essay-stories of Kenneth Burke were unlike any other fiction of the 1920s. Here & Elsewhere gathers, for the first time, all of Burke’s fiction: 23 short stories [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Zaza Burchuladze – Adibas
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartWar is raging in Georgia, Russian fighter planes are thundering overhead, and yet, for some, the falling bombs cause no more impact than the slight ripple moving through the purified […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Vladislav Otroshenko – Addendum to a Photo Album
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Addendum to a Photo Album” is the saga of the births, deaths, and disappearances within the eccentric Mandrykin family. Following patriarch Malach, a Cossack captain, his wife [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Dan Fante – 86’d: A Novel
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn Los Angeles, struggling telemarketer-writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is jobless again. The publication of his book of short stories has been put off indefinitely. Searching the want ads [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Simon Kuper – Spies, Lies, and Exile: The Extraordinary Story of Russian Double Agent George Blake
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFew Cold War spy stories approach the sheer daring and treachery of George Blake’s. After fighting in the Dutch resistance during World War II, Blake joined the British spy agency […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Edmund Levin – A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartOn March 20, 1911, thirteen-year-old Andrei Yushchinsky was found stabbed to death in a cave on the outskirts of Kiev. Four months later, Russian police arrested Mendel Beilis, a [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
William T. Vollmann – Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness, Vol. 2
$16.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn this landmark collection, William T. Vollmann offers a kaleidoscopic retrospective of the visual artwork he has produced over four decades, with new commentary from Vollmann on his process, [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Richard Artschwager: Into the Desert
$16.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartRichard Artschwager: Into The Desert is the first Artschwager monograph that focuses exclusively on the artist’s drawings, and their intimate and influential relationship on [...]
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Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Center of Cosmic Energy
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIlya Kabakov was born in the USSR in 1933, and immigrated to New York in 1992. He began working with his wife, Emilia, in 1989. The two continue to produce […]
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Roberto Bolano’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartSince the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Joseph Ceravolo – Collected Poems
$15.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartLike an underground river, the astonishing poems of Joseph Ceravolo have nurtured American poetry for fifty years, a presence deeply felt but largely invisible. Collected Poems offers the first [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Joan Halifax – Shaman
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartSummarizes forms of shamanism in various cultures, looks at its origin, and compares the methods shamans use to gain a vision of other realities Thames & Hudson, 1990 Softcover edition. […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Frank Stanford – What About This
$50.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartMichael Ondaatje writes of this volume: “Frank Stanford died in 1978, but his writing has been almost a secret or an unknown force in American Poetry. So it is wondrous […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Frank Stanford – The Singing Knives
$65.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartTHE SINGING KNIVES, originally published in 1971 by Broughton’s Mill Mountain Press, is Frank Sanford’s first collection of poetry. Reprinted by his own press, Lost Roads Publisher, [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Fartherest Place: The Music Of John Luther Adams
$7.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe artistic heir of sonic artists such as John Cage and James Tenney, John Luther Adams is one of the most significant and highly regarded contemporary American composers. The Farthest […]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
E.Graham Howe – She And Me (as-is)
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cart“For those interested in the sociological, psychological and religious problems of today, this new book by Dr. Graham Howe is of the greatest importance. Dealing with many subjects and, in [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction