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Mistaken Identity: Mass Movements and Racial Ideology By Asad Haider Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781786637376
Published: Verso - May 15th, 2018

As Serious as Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957-1977 By Val Wilmer, Richard Williams (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Val Wilmer, Richard Williams (Foreword by)
$18.95
ISBN: 9781788160711
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Published: Serpent's Tail - June 12th, 2018

You Will Hear Thunder By Anna Akhmatova, D. M. Thomas (Translated by) Cover Image
By Anna Akhmatova, D. M. Thomas (Translated by)
$19.95
ISBN: 9780804011914
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Published: Swallow Press - August 14th, 2017

The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming By Masanobu Fukuoka, Larry Korn (Editor), Wendell Berry (Preface by), Masanobu Fukuoka (Afterword by), Frances Moore Lappé (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Masanobu Fukuoka, Larry Korn (Editor), Wendell Berry (Preface by), Masanobu Fukuoka (Afterword by), Frances Moore Lappé (Introduction by)
$15.95
ISBN: 9781590173138
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Published: NYRB Classics - June 2nd, 2009

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Open City: A Novel By Teju Cole Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780812980097
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - January 17th, 2012

The beauty of Open City lies in what is left unsaid. Teju Cole's protagonist glides through New York City detached and coolly academic. Julius only briefly hints at his difficult, at times unsettling Nigerian past. Always calculated, rational, and well-read, Julius keeps the reader guessing. Echoes of Sebald, Coetzee, and Kafka. Lofty comparisons, but this novel is excellent.


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Eunoia: The Upgraded Edition By Christian Bök Cover Image
$14.95
ISBN: 9781552452257
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Published: Coach House Books - October 14th, 2005

An astounding book of poetry. Each chapter uses a different vowel. In using only one vowel per chapter, Bok really illuminates the weird, wonderful personalities each letter. An excellent achievement in experimental poetry.


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Native Speaker By Chang-rae Lee Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781573225311
Availability: Backordered
Published: Riverhead Books - March 1st, 1996

Chang Rae-Lee is one of my favorite contemporary fiction writers. This novel is his best, in my opinion. Fascinating diasporic literature disguised as a 'secret agent' novel. An unforgiving look into the beauties and tragedies of Henry Park's life. Restrained yet moving, I love this novel.


A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel By Tom Phillips Cover Image
$26.95
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ISBN: 9780500289990
Published: Thames & Hudson - May 29th, 2012

An incredible acheivement in postmodern poetry/art. A Victorian novel painted, collaged, and highlighted to create an entirely new work. Take a look inside this one. It's beautiful and highly readable.


Schizophrene By Bhanu Kapil Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9780984459865
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Published: Nightboat Books - September 19th, 2011

Kapil intended to write a large work on the higher incidence of schizophrenia in South Asian emigrants. Instead, she threw the ntoebook into her garden, let it sit through the winter, recovered the decayed, fragmented notes, and published the remnants in this moving book of poetry.