7 Top theory books like The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing by T.J. Clark

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The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing

By: T.J. Clark

4.03

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Why do we find ourselves returning to certain pictures time and again? What is it we are looking fo…

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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

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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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  • theory
  • nonfiction
"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

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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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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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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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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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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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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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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

"[Mitchell] undertakes to explore the nature of images by comparing them with words, or, more preci… read more

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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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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"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

"The first traces of modern humans date back to more than two hundred thousands years ago. But it was only in the last five thousand years (i.e. during less than three percent of human history) that t…"

-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

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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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  • philosophy
"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

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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

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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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  • nonfiction
  • writing
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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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  • art
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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

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29. The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing

By: T.J. Clark

4.03

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Why do we find ourselves returning to certain pictures time and again? What is it we are looking fo… read more

Similar categories in T.J. Clark's The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing book and T.J. Clark's The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing

  • art
  • art history
  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • literary criticism
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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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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • literary criticism
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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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3.39

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3.35

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Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression

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