The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing
By: T.J. Clark
4.03
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
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1. Louisiana: A Novel
By: Erna Brodber
3.78
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
This is the first American publication of Brodber's eagerly awaited third novel. In A Novel she ex… read more
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2. The Emigrants
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
4.17
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth… read more
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"It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know what it is that someone dies of. Yes, it is very hard, said Mme Landau, one really doesn't know."-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants
"The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance, and the Alpine panorama that occupied h…"-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants
3. Women, Race & Class
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.58
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more
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"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class
4. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
By: Christina Sharpe
3.39
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and… read more
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5. Imperium in Imperio
By: Sutton Elbert Griggs
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Self-published in 1899 and sold door-to-door by the author, this classic African-American novel--a … read more
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6. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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7. Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression
By: Jacques Derrida , Eric Prenowitz
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Archive Fever, Jacques Derrida deftly guides us through an extended meditation on remembrance, r… read more
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8. The Hours
By: None , Michael Cunningham
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, "The Hours" is the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan,… read more
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9. Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod
By: H.D. , Aliki Barnstone
3.70
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
As civilian war poetry (written under the shattering impact of World War II). Trilogy's three long … read more
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10. The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
By: Pema Chödrön
3.98
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
We always have a choice, Pema Chodron teaches: We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us … read more
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11. The Chaneysville Incident
By: David Bradley
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The legends say something happened in Chaneysville. The Chaneysville Incidentis the powerful story … read more
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12. The Custom of the Country
By: Edith Wharton , Linda Wagner-Martin
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet… read more
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13. Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology
By: W.J. Thomas Mitchell
2.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
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14. Less Than Zero
By: Bret Easton Ellis
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more
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15. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucidawas first published in 1979. Commenting on artists s… read more
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16. December
By: Alexander Kluge , Martin Chalmers , Gerhard Richter
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director … read more
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17. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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18. Please Look After Mom
By: Shin Kyung-Sook , Chi-Young Kim , None
4.62
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
An international sensation and a bestseller that has sold over 1.5 million copies in the author's n… read more
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19. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes
By: Eric LaRocca
3.22
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
Three dark and disturbing horror stories from an astonishing new voice, including the viral-sensati… read more
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20. A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
By: Hadas Thier
4.29
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the s… read more
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"Is this rotten system the best we can do?"-Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
"Marxism is not a simple blueprint, with obvious rights and wrongs. Instead, it is a living, breathing theory, applied to social relations, which themselves are always in motion."-Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
"We live in a society in which decades of budget cuts have made a run on overwhelmed hospitals inevitable and which has set countries and states bidding against one another for ventilators on the “fre…"-Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
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21. My Death
By: Lisa Tuttle
3.98
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more
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22. Tremor
By: Teju Cole
3.69
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more
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"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."-Teju Cole, Tremor
23. Pure Colour
By: Sheila Heti
3.46
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. … read more
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"And what opens one heart opens many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"The body becomes a woman and it cannot turn back."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?"-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
24. A Children's Bible
By: Lydia Millet
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A Children’s Bible follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their… read more
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"The nuclear threat. So quaint."-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible
"Once we lived in a summer country."-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible
"I felt an itch and thought, Is there a tick crawling on me? Right this minute? Burrowing into my skin? And then I thought, Wait. Forget the tick. Why are we always complaining? We get to be alive."-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible
"If you could be nothing, you could also be everything. Once my molecules had dispersed, I would be here forever. Free. Part of the timeless. The sky and the ocean would also be me. Molecules never di…"-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible
25. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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26. Information Desk: An Epic
By: Robyn Schiff
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Robyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropo… read more
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27. To 2040
By: Jorie Graham
4.07
Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition
It is rare to find in one collection an entire skyline burning and the quiet to follow a single wor… read more
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28. Untold Night and Day
By: Bae Suah
3.49
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A seductive, disorienting novel that manipulates the fragile line between dreams and reality, by So… read more
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"In life there are wounds that like leprosy slowly eat away at the soul in solitude."-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day
"The door swung back so suddenly it severed them from their shadows, which were left behind like dark ghosts."-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day
"Whatever the intention or aim of the photographer, every photograph is a unique proof of identify, firmly declaring that human beings are ghosts."-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day
"Whatever the intention or aim of the photographer, Wolfi thought, every photograph is a unique proof of identity, firmly declaring that human beings are ghosts."-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day
29. The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing
By: T.J. Clark
4.03
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
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30. Marxist Literary Criticism Today
By: Barbara Foley
4.28
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In the first introduction to Marxist literary criticism in decades, Barbara Foley argues that Marxi… read more
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31. The Sun Also Rises: The Original 1926 Unabridged And Complete Edition (Ernest Hemingway Classics)
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.70
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, his first, that portrays Am… read more
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