Dialectic of Pop (Urbanomic / Mono)
By: Agnès Gayraud
4.05
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
A philosophical exploration of pop music that reveals a rich, self-reflexive art form with unsuspec…
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By: Vladimir Nabokov
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Format: 574 pages,
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4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a… read more
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3. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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4. Pitch Dark
By: Renata Adler
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"What's new. What else. What next. What's happened here." Pitch Dark, Renata Adler's follow up to h… read more
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5. Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever
By: Will Hermes
4.20
Format: 288 pages,
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6. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.10
Format: 264 pages,
In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and politic… read more
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7. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
By: Legs McNeil , Gillian McCain
4.19
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
A Time Out and Daily News Top Ten Book of the Year upon its initial release, Please Kill Me is the … read more
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"Bob Gruen: La gente veniva da noi per farsi mordere, non per farsi accarezzare."-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Penny Arcade said: At that time, the DRUG world and the ART world ran through each other. (1971 - 1974)"-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Hippies survived Nixon, but punk caved in to Ronald Reagan, know what I'm saying? Punk actually couldn't take a good challenge."-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Ed Friedman: [talking about Patti Smith] One time she told me, "Allen Ginsberg thought I was a cute boy and he tried to pick me up, so I said, "LOOK AT THE TITS, ALLEN! NOTICE THE TITS!"-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
8. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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9. Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century
By: Simon Reynolds
4.18
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
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10. Junky
By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
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11. Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England
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4.00
Format: None pages,
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12. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
By: Lorrie Moore
3.31
Format: 193 pages, Hardcover
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"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
13. The English Understand Wool
By: Helen DeWitt
4.10
Format: 69 pages, Hardcover
Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more
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14. Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures
By: Mark Fisher
4.29
Format: 211 pages, None
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15. L’amour
By: François Bégaudeau
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
J'ai voulu raconter l'amour tel qu'il est vécu la plupart du temps par la plupart des gens : sans c… read more
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16. How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century
By: Erik Olin Wright
3.91
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
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17. Capital Is Dead. Is This Something Worse?
By: McKenzie Wark
3.50
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It’s not capitalism, it’s not neoliberalism—what if it’s something worse?In this radical and vision… read more
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18. Neon Screams: How Drill, Trap and Bashment Made Music New Again
By: Kit Mackintosh
3.72
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
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19. Un roi sans divertissement
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3.57
Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Le livre est parti parfaitement au hasard, sans aucun personnage. Le personnage était l'Arbre, le … read more
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20. Dialectic of Pop (Urbanomic / Mono)
By: Agnès Gayraud
4.05
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
A philosophical exploration of pop music that reveals a rich, self-reflexive art form with unsuspec… read more
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21. The Organs of Sense
By: Adam Ehrlich Sachs
3.77
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In 1666, an astronomer makes a prediction shared by no one else in the world: At the stroke of noon… read more
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