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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 […]
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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 […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 […]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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 […]
GENRE: Art/Photography