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  • We Are Like Those Who Dream

    Black Women Speak

    Illuminating speeches by famous black women that offer wisdom and clarity, solace and inspiration--curated by, and with personal essays from, a leader whose "voice is going to be making a difference for years to come" (President Barack Obama)Dedicated to the prophetic voices of black women, We Are Like Those Who Dream is an invitation for readers to engage with the galvanizing guidance of a fierce ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Speak, Nabokov

    by Michael Maar ...
    On the eve of the controversial, posthumous publication of The Original of Laura, Michael Maar follows his critically acclaimed The Two Lolitas with a revealing new perspective on Vladimir Nabokov’s life and work. Hunting down long-hidden clues in the novels, and using the themes that run through Nabokov’s fiction to illuminate the life that produced them, Maar constructs a compelling ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Fugitive Tilts

    Essays

    Ishion Hutchinson turns his poetic sensibility to questions of home, displacement, and memory in his beautiful and searingly brilliant prose debut.In Fugitive Tilts, Ishion Hutchinson, the author House of Lords and Commons (for which he won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry), turns to prose to create an incomplete biography of love: love of poetry, discovered in childhood; love of ... Read more

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  • Minor Notes, Volume 2

    The second volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past, and of the Black literary imaginationA Penguin ClassicJoshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy repeatedly found themselves struck by the number of exciting poets they came across in long-out-of-print collections and forgotten journals whose work has been neglected ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Writing, the Other Life

    Annie Ernaux and others

    **WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREFor fans new to Annie Ernaux and longtime readers, this collection of interviews, writing by critics and journalists, with diary excerpts and unpublished texts by Ernaux herself, also includes visual material like drawings, photos, and newspaper clippings.**Magisterial in scope and size, Writing, The Other Life wascompiled and edited by Pierre-Louis ... Read more

    $29.99 USD $23.99 USD

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  • Kleines ABC der ukrainischen Literatur und Kultur

    Series Book 271 - Edition Kulturwissenschaft
    Die Ukraine als ostmitteleuropäischer Raum war und ist geprägt vom Ringen um Eigenstaatlichkeit, von sich verschiebenden Grenzen, mehrsprachigen Bevölkerungen und generationenübergreifenden Gewalterfahrungen. Die Beiträger*innen stellen in Kurzeinträgen wichtige kulturelle und kunstgeschichtliche Strömungen der Ukraine vor. Dabei behandeln sie Personen und Ereignisse bis in die zweite Hälfte des ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

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  • Literary Landscapes: New York

    A beautiful photographic stroll around the bookshops, restaurants, literary locations and authors’ neighbourhoods in the Big Apple.Literary Landscapes: New York is the follow-up to Literary Landscapes: Paris and contains a familiar blend of everything precious to the bibliophile – a blend of quirky bookstores, authors’ favourite bars, storied hotels, grand libraries, on- and off-Broadway theatres ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Wisteria – Die Liebe des Todes (Belladonna 3)

    by Adalyn Grace ...
    Translated by Petra Knese ...
    Series Book 3 - Belladonna
    Tod und Leben, Liebe und Schicksal finden ihren fulminanten Höhepunkt ...Seit das Schicksal in Signas und Blythes Leben getreten ist, hat sich die Welt der beiden unwiderruflich verändert. Während Signa um ihre Beziehung mit dem Tod kämpft, muss Blythe mit ihren neuen Fähigkeiten fertigwerden. Das Geheimnis um ihre wahre Identität lässt sie nicht ruhen. Ebenso wenig wie der Pakt, den sie mit dem ... Read more

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  • Living and Learning with Feminist Ethics, Literature, and Art

    This transdisciplinary collection investigates relations of “living and learning with” as compelling forms of encounter, engagement, and care between self and other, human, nonhuman, and more-than-human. Editors and contributors dig deeper, through academic and creative written forms, into the ongoing need to forge sustainable forms of relationality between various feminist positions, attending ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Feminist Literary Classics - Volume IV - A Room of One's Own - Jane Eyre - The Song of the Lark

    Presented here is Volume IV of our Feminist Literary Classics series, featuring three of the most important feminist works ever written: A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather. The first book in this collection is A Room of One's Own, a groundbreaking examination of women's roles in literary history by English author Virginia ... Read more

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  • A Room of One's Own - Unabridged

    "A Room of One's Own" began life as a pair of lectures delivered by Virginia Woolf in October 1928 at Newnham College and Girton College, women's colleges at the University of Cambridge and was published as a stand-alone book in 1929. In this brilliant examination of literature, history and gender discrimination, Woolf posits that the dearth of female writers in literature did not result from a ... Read more

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  • Guía de Tokio para amantes del manga

    Translated by Jaume Muñoz Cunill ...
    Series series Guía de Tokio para amantes del manga
    Para los fanáticos del manga y el anime, un viaje a Tokio es ¡imprescindible!En esta guía de estilo manga, la dibujante y autora Evangeline Neo viaja a la capital japonesa con sus mascotas Kopi el perro y Matcha el gato, llevándote a todos los lugares otaku de Tokio.Además de las aventuras relacionadas con el manga y el anime, Eva será tu guía del Tokio tradicional --desde el Templo Sensoji de ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Jiddisch

    Geschichte und Kultur einer Weltsprache

    Series Book 1621 - Beck Paperback
    Die jiddische Sprache mit ihren deutschen, hebräischen und slawischen Bestandteilen ist ein faszinierendes Spiegelbild der langen Geschichte und Kultur der Juden in Europa. Das kleine Standardwerk beschreibt die Geschichte des Jiddischen von den ältesten mittelalterlichen Texten über die jiddischen Kulturen Osteuropas bis hin zu den großen jiddischen Romanen des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, zur ... Read more

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  • How to Research Like a Dog

    Kafka’s New Science

    Series series Short Circuits
    A provocative book that proposes a new and surprising inspiration for philosophy today—the canine thinker from Kafka’s story “Investigations of a Dog.”Written toward the end of Kafka’s life, “Investigations of a Dog” (Forschungen eines Hundes, 1922) is one of the lesser-known and most enigmatic works in the author’s oeuvre. Walter Benjamin remarked that it was the one story he never managed to ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Cuba by Korda

    Photographs

    by Alberto Korda ...
    Cuba's greatest photographer captures the spirit of the Cuban Revolution—and of Cuba itself—in unforgettable images and text.Korda’s photographs and breathtaking reminiscences capture some of the 20th-century’s greatest moments with unprecedented intimacy as no other book ever could or will.In the first weeks of 1959, Korda joined the staff of the newly created daily newspaper of Cuba, Revolución. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Taylor Swift by the Book

    The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Sappho to Sylvia Plath

    From the childhood nostalgia of Peter Pan in Speak Now to the haunted halls of Rebecca in evermore, Taylor Swift's lyrics are packed with literary connections. Make sure you're catching them all with this expert guide to the novels, poems, and plays that influenced her songwriting.Let a literature professor and a musical theater artist guide you through the Swift canon—from Shakespeare to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Getting Carter

    Ted Lewis and the Birth of British Noir

    by Nick Triplow ...
    Nick Triplow’s soulful biography of enigmatic British crime fiction pioneer, Ted Lewis (author of Get Carter), is one of those rare works of literary investigation that relentlessly asserts its own status as art. Like Philip Hoare’s Melville in The Whale or James Sallis’ Chester Himes: A Life, Triplow more than uncovers the forgotten godfather of the modern British crime story; he also spins a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Walter Benjamin

    Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism

    From our finest radical literary analyst, a classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theorist. ... Read more

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  • Everything Must Go

    The Stories We Tell About the End of the World

    A rich, captivating, and darkly humorous look into the evolution of apocalyptic thought, exploring how film and literature interact with developments in science, politics, and culture, and what factors drive our perennial obsession with the end of the world.As Dorian Lynskey writes, “People have been contemplating the end of the world for millennia.” In this immersive and compelling cultural ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    Translated by Genese Grill ...
    A landmark literary event, What Remains collects Hannah Arendt’s complete poetic oeuvre—never before published in English—into a single edition.The German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt is internationally renowned for her work on totalitarianism, the human condition, and the banality of evil. While Arendt often acknowledged that the language of poetry—especially that of Dickinson, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Memories of Distant Mountains

    Illustrated Notebooks, 2009-2022

    by Orhan Pamuk ...
    Translated by Ekin Oklap ...
    The journals of the Nobel Prize–winning author, beautifully illustrated with his own paintingsFor many years, Orhan Pamuk kept a record of his daily thoughts and observations, entering them in small notebooks and illustrating them with his own paintings. This book combines those notebooks into one volume. He writes about his travels around the world, his family, his writing process, and his ... Read more

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  • Digital Memory Agents in Canada

    Performance, Representation, and Culture

    Digital Memory Agents in Canada explores memory performances and representations with different cultural and spatial relationships to Canada, moving from discourses on place to a focus on the digital or virtual space, on how certain cultures, subjectivities, or positionalities use digital media to document or represent their recollections. Embracing interdisciplinary approaches, the contributors ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • Stranger Than Fiction

    Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel

    by Edwin Frank ...
    A legendary editor's reckoning with the twentieth-century novel and the urgent messages it sends.“How can we live differently?” a young woman urgently demands in Virginia Woolf’s novel The Years. It is the 1930s, war and death are in the air, but her question was asked again and again in the course of a century where things changed fast and changed all the time. The century brought world wars, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Selected Amazon Reviews

    Series series Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
    A book-length selection from Kevin Killian's legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com.An enchanting roll of duct tape. Love Actually on Blu-ray Disc. The Toaster Oven Cookbook, The Biography of Stevie Nicks, and an anthology of poets who died of AIDS. In this only book-length selection from his legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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