Remedios Varo: Science Fictions
By: Caitlin Haskell
4.67
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of the captivating work and mystical outlook of the modern artist Remedios Varo, foc…
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1. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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2. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
By: André Maurois , Jorge Luis Borges , James E. Irby , Donald A. Yates
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges … read more
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3. A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
By: Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The stories found in A Haunted Housereflect Virginia Woolf's experimental writing style and act as … read more
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4. The Moonstone
By: Wilkie Collins , Carolyn G. Heilbrun
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazi… read more
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5. Memoirs of Hadrian
By: Marguerite Yourcenar , Grace Frick
4.23
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has… read more
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"And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul..."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
6. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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7. Unexpected Journeys: The Art and Life of Remedios Varo
By: Janet A. Kaplan
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The adventures that fill the strange and wonderful paintings by Remedios Varo (1908-1963) reflect t… read more
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8. Lady Susan
By: Jane Austen , Robert William Chapman
3.65
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marria… read more
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"I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"How little the general report of any one ought to be credited, since no character, however upright, can escape the malevolence of slander."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"...though I always imagined from her increasing friendship for us since her husband's death that we should, at some future period, be obliged to receive her."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
9. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
10. Monica
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3.95
Format: 106 pages, Hardcover
Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more
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11. Flights
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more
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"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
12. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
By: Ned Blackhawk
4.18
Format: 596 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more
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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. Cahokia Jazz
By: Francis Spufford
4.03
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more
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15. Your Utopia
By: Bora Chung
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more
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16. The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters
By: Benjamin Moser
4.20
Format: 395 pages, Hardcover
A Washington Post Notable Book of 2023Plunged into a strange land at twenty-five, Benjamin Moser be… read more
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17. Flux
By: Jinwoo Chong
3.38
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he susp… read more
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18. Hilma af Klint: A Biography
By: Julia Voss
4.29
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
A highly anticipated biography of the enigmatic and popular Swedish painter. The Swedish painter … read more
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19. Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages
By: Jack Hartnell
3.92
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell … read more
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20. Alchemy of a Blackbird
By: Claire McMillan
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Age of Light and Z, a mystical, historical novel based on the true story of the twe… read more
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21. Underworlds: A Compelling Journey Through Subterranean Realms, Real and Imagined
By: Stephen Ellcock
4.35
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A darkly evocative compendium of images exploring natural, constructed, imaginary, and subconscious… read more
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22. Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
By: Robert Chapman
4.39
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
‘Groundbreaking … [provides] a deep history of the invention of the “normal” mind as one of the mo… read more
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23. Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington
By: Joanna Moorhead
4.50
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An illustrated biography of the pioneering British artist and writer, tracing her life and work thr… read more
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24. When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East
By: Quan Barry
4.01
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From the acclaimed author of We Ride Upon Sticks comes a luminous novel that moves across a windswe… read more
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25. The Short Story of Women Artists: A Pocket Guide to Key Breakthroughs, Movements, Works and Themes
By: Susie Hodge
3.99
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The Short Story of Women Artists tells the full history – from the breakthroughs that women have ma… read more
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26. Rogomelec (The Envelope-silence, 6)
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3.79
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
The first translation of Leonor Fini’s voluptuous and antipatriarchal gothic novel Originally publi… read more
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27. Remedios Varo: Science Fictions
By: Caitlin Haskell
4.67
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of the captivating work and mystical outlook of the modern artist Remedios Varo, foc… read more
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28. Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel
By: Nancy Ireson
4.29
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A reconsideration of the life and legacy of the revolutionary artist of the Parisian avant-garde. … read more
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29. Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris
By: Simonetta Fraquelli
4.43
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Revealing the vital influence of the French artist Marie Laurencin, her visual idiom, and her sexua… read more
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30. Manet/Degas
By: Stephan Wolohojian
4.46
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
The first publication on the personal and professional relationship between Manet and Degas, two gi… read more
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31. Balthus: A Biography
By: Nicholas Fox Weber
3.67
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The first full-scale biography of one of the most elusive and enigmatic painters of our time -- the… read more
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