
Against Everything
Against Everything is a thought-provoking study and essential guide to the vicissitudes of everyday life under twenty-first-century capitalism. Mar...
View full detailsAgainst Everything is a thought-provoking study and essential guide to the vicissitudes of everyday life under twenty-first-century capitalism. Mar...
View full detailsFive decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn, Louise Glück is a towering figure in American letters. Written with the same probing, an...
View full detailsThe question Are We Human? is both urgent and ancient. Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley offer a multilayered exploration of the intimate relationsh...
View full detailsBluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, B...
View full detailsFrom My Little Pony to the Sex Pistols: An engaging exploration of why we love what we love Katy Perry. Wes Anderson. Coldplay. Star Wars. Hamilton...
View full detailsThe story of the negro in America is the story of America... it is not a very pretty story' James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him ...
View full detailsIn Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a “blu...
View full detailsThis book is about a strange object-strange in part because it is something that we all have been, and that many of us eat. Nicole Walker's Egg rel...
View full detailsDesert nomads tested their vision by distinguishing a pair of stars. But we have since created more disquieting ways to test the strength of the ey...
View full detailsWhen the Sony Walkman debuted in 1979, people were enthralled by the novel experience it offered: immersion in the music of their choice, anytime, ...
View full detailsThe mall near Matthew Newton's childhood home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was one of the state's first enclosed shopping malls. Like all malls in ...
View full detailsWho ponders the sock? This common object is something people tug on and take off daily with hardly a thought. Unraveling the garment's history, con...
View full detailsSpeed. Bump. Speed. Traffic considers the history and philosophy of roundabouts, speed bumps, the pedestrian mall, and other efforts to manage traf...
View full detailsThe veil can be an instrument of feminist empowerment, and veiled anonymity can confer power to women. Starting from her own marriage ceremony at w...
View full detailsThe sapiens of the sea, whales are the other intelligent, social, and loquacious animal. But they seem to swim away the more people chase after the...
View full detailsCharles Bukowski was one of our most iconoclastic, raw and riveting writers, one whose stories, poems and novels have left an enduring mark on our ...
View full detailsRecent years have seen a surge of interest in Marxian political economy and especially Marx's great work Capital. 150 years after the book's origin...
View full details‘We are driving across Oklahoma in early June when we first hear about the waves of children arriving, alone and undocumented, from Mexico and Cent...
View full detailsAnnie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether o...
View full detailsAn annual publication, The Birthday Book examines emerging challenges and opportunities for Singapore, based on a selected prompt. The number of wr...
View full detailsElizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form,...
View full detailsIn the nearly fifty essays collected in The Wild Children of William Blake, John Yau explores the careers of a wide range of poets and artists who ...
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