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  • Anna Kavan – Sleep Has His House
    Anna Kavan – Sleep Has His House
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    In an unhappy suburban household, a young girl begins to retreat into a nighttime world of her own imagining. As her daytime life deteriorates, she decides to take up permanent […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Samuel R. Delany – Driftglass
    Samuel R. Delany – Driftglass
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    Samuel Delany is one of the most radical and influential science fiction writers of our age, who reinvented the genre with his fearless explorations of race, class and gender. Driftglass […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • H.P. Lovecraft – The Colour Out of Space
    H.P. Lovecraft – The Colour Out of Space
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    The master of weird fiction, H. P. Lovecraft combines cosmic fantasy with creeping horror in these three tales of malevolent alien forces, body-switching and travel across the space-time continuum.

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Rosemarie Trockel/Paloma Varga Weisz – Maison De Plaisance
    Rosemarie Trockel/Paloma Varga Weisz – Maison De Plaisance
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    Maison de Plaisance is a collaboration between German artists Rosemarie Trockel (born 1952) and Paloma Varga Weisz (born 1966), who have created an installation at the Museum Morsbroich, near [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Carl Andre : Sculpture As Place, 1958 – 2010
    Carl Andre : Sculpture As Place, 1958 – 2010
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    A major retrospective catalogue on the career of minimalist sculptor and poet Carl Andre. Carl Andre (b. 1935) redefined the parameters of abstract sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s. He […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Millennium: Tribal Wisdom And The Modern World
    Millennium: Tribal Wisdom And The Modern World
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    “Harvard anthropologist Maybury-Lewis argues that the ancient wisdom, communal sharing and closeness to nature found in tribal societies hold survival lessons for our modern industrial [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Susan Sontag – The Way We Live Now
    Susan Sontag – The Way We Live Now
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    “This book is the result of a unique collaboration. ‘The Way We Live Now’ was first published as a short story in the New Yorker in 1986. It concerns the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Luc Boltanski & Eve Chiapello – The New Spirit Of Capitalism
    Luc Boltanski & Eve Chiapello – The New Spirit Of Capitalis…
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    “Why is the critique of capitalism so ineffective today? In this major work, the sociologists Eve Chiapello and Luc Boltanski suggest that we should be addressing the crisis of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • 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
  • Music from the Hearts of Space Guide – Anna Turner & Stephen Hill
    Music from the Hearts of Space Guide – Anna Turner & Stephe…
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    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 – 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 – 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
  • 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
  • Jorge Luis Borges – Labyrinths
    Jorge Luis Borges – Labyrinths
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    Jorge Luis Borges’s Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America’s most influential and imaginative writers. This Penguin Modern Classics [...]

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
    The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philos…
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    “A soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Ayn Rand by the critically acclaimed [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse
    To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Conver…
    $10.00 | ,

    This is the mesmerizing story of an enigmatic life. When musician and New Yorker contributor Howard Fishman first heard Connie Converse’s voice on a recording, he was convinced she could […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
    The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature…
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    Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges was madly in love when his life was shattered by painful heartbreak. But the breakdown that followed illuminated an incontrovertible truth—that love is [...]

  • Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius
    Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s …
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    Miss May Does Not Exist, by Carrie Courogen is the riveting biography of comedian, director, actor and writer Elaine May, one of America’s greatest comic geniuses. May began her career […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art
    Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art
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    Explore the dynamic world of 1960s pop art through Lucy Lippard’s insightful analysis of this groundbreaking international art movement. Pop Art epitomized the free spirit of the 1960s, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
    Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
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    During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century. As the architectural designer and futurist best known for the geodesic dome, he […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker
    Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker
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    Kathy Acker (1947–1997) was a rare and almost inconceivable thing: a celebrity experimental writer. Twenty-five years after her death, she remains one of the most original, shocking, and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
    Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of th…
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    In this genre-defying work of cultural history, the chief film critic of Slate places comedy legend and acclaimed filmmaker Buster Keaton’s unique creative genius in the context of his time. […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Joyce Carol Oates – Blonde
    Joyce Carol Oates – Blonde
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    One of America’s most acclaimed novelists boldly re-imagines one of America’s most enduring icons in Blonde—the National Book Award-nominated bestseller by Joyce Carol Oates. The legend of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Lauren Elkin – Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
    Lauren Elkin – Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
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    In this dazzlingly original reassessment of women’s stories, bodies, and art, Lauren Elkin―the celebrated author of Flâneuse―explores the ways in which feminist artists have taken up the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – The Wolves of Eternity
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – The Wolves of Eternity
    $12.00 | ,

    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
    $30.00 | ,

    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
    $8.00 | , ,

    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
  • 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