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Daryl Easlea – Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsFew narratives in pop encompass Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Madonna, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, Johnny Mathis and Led Zeppelin. This story is one of them. Chic, led by […]
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The Electric Muse Revisited
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsFolk music has been evolving and adapting for centuries, but in the 1960s and 70s came an extraordinary period of change and innovation. Rock musicians borrowed from traditional songs, while […]
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The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsFrom jazz trumpeters drawing on the noises of warfare in Beirut to female heavy metallers in Alexandria, the Arab culture offers a wealth of exciting, challenging, and diverse musics. The […]
GENRE: International, Non-Fiction -
Catherine Zimmer – Surveillance Cinema
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsIn Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the torture and murder of kidnap victims. And in clandestine intelligence offices around […]
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Jacques Boyreau – Supertrash
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsSuperTrash is the mutagenic sequel to Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters (2002, Chronicle), the book that became a prophecy of the lasting influence of grindhouse and a […]
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Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsPerpetrator Cinema explores a new trend in the cinematic depiction of genocide that has emerged in Cambodian documentary in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. While past films [...]
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Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the W…
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsIn the summer of 1970, legendary but self-destructive director Orson Welles returned to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe and decided it was time to make a comeback […]
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Neither God nor Master: Robert Bresson and Radical Politics
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsThe French auteur Robert Bresson, director of such classics as Diary of a Country Priest (1951), The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962), The Devil, Probably (1977), and L’Argent (1983), […]
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Kabuki Plays on Stage. Volume 4: Restoration and Reform, 1872-1905
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsRestoration and Reform, 1872-1905, is the fourth and final volume in a monumental new series that traces kabuki’s changing relations to Japanese society during the premodern era. The twelve [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Leo Tolstoy – Three Simple Men: And Other Holy Folktales
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsYou’ve met the characters in these stories before. We meet them in folktales from all around the world. There is the simple, wise old man who understands far more than […]
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Lafcadio Hearn – Short Stories: Tales of the Supernatural
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsThis gorgeous hardback edition brings the writing of Lafcadio Hearn to life. Ranging from the legends of the West Indies to the mysteries of the Orient, Lafcadio Hearn blurs the […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
James Purdy – Malcolm: A Comic Novel
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsThe twenty-first-century revival of James Purdy continues with his classic novel of innocence and corruption. Introduced simply as “the boy on the bench,” the titular character of Malcolm is a [...]
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Viktor Shklovsky – Literature and Cinematography
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsIn this short, brilliant book, Viktor Shklovsky enunciates the function of the arts: what they are and, just as importantly, what they are not. In the course of defining what […]
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James Purdy – Eustace Chisholm & the Works: A Novel
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsNo 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 […]
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Surrealism in Latin America: Vivísimo Muerto
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsThis 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 [...]
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Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolita…
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsRoots 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 […]
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Conceptual Art in Britain: 1964–1979
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsFeaturing 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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Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected T…
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsAn 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 ItemsIt 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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Whole World in an Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression – 1955-1972
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsHow 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 E…
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsThis 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 ItemsAboriginal 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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James McBride – Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Br…
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsKill ’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, […]
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Graeme Thomson – I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death by Mur…
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsWhat 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“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 […]
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Geoffrey Pimm – The Violent Abuse of Women in 17th and 18th Cent…
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsThe 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 ItemsHenri 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, [...]
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The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Ca…
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsSince 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 [...]
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Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States …
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsIn 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 ItemsMusô 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 […]
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Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsWhile 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 [...]
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Luigi Pirandello – Stories for the Years
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsRegarded 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“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 [...]
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Natasha Trethewey – Monument: Poems New and Selected
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsLayering 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. [...]
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Mikheil Javakhishvili – Kvachi
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsThis 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, [...]
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Here & Elsewhere: The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Burke
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsThe 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 [...]
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Zaza Burchuladze – Adibas
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsWar 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“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 -
Simon Kuper – Spies, Lies, and Exile: The Extraordinary Story of…
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsFew 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 […]
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Edmund Levin – A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspirac…
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsOn 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 [...]
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Richard Artschwager: Into the Desert
$16.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsRichard 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 ItemsIlya 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 […]
GENRE: Art/Photography