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CHARISMATIC SPIRALS
Will Alexander
CHARISMATIC SPIRALS is for an America circa 2024, where poetryβthe art of developing new means of speakingβhas never been of such artistic, technological, and political consequence.
CHARISMATIC SPIRALS is for an America circa 2024, where poetryβthe art of developing new means of speakingβhas never been of such artistic, technological, and political consequence.
Penned by the inimitable SjΓ³n, a novelist, poet, and lyricist hailed by Junot Diaz as "the trickster who makes the world," UNDER THE WINGS OF THE VALKYRIE is an exploration of eroticism in extremism. Published in Icelandic in 1994, this short and intense story, SjΓ³n writes, is "more transgressive than anything ever published by me in the English language."
A BOOK OF MY OWN tells the story of Mukasongaβs self: her name, her exile, how her identity took shapeβto βrebuild,β as she puts it βa lost world from memory and preserve the dignity of humanity.β
with Daisy Hildyard and Precious Okoyomon
EVER GAIA is an introduction to the life and work of James Lovelock, whose way of seeingββperhaps his greatest legacy,β Obrist writesβwill continue to shape our world and our place within it for decades to come.
in partnership with the Office of the President of Ukraine and the PinchukArtCentre, featuring the War Diary of Yevgenia Belorusets.
THE ARCHIPELAGO CONVERSATIONS introduces the most important philosopher of the twenty-first century to a popular audienceβa ready-to-hand tool for building an interdependent earth.
MODERN ANIMAL knots together humans and animals, retelling the folktales, memories, and visions of the peopleβbourgeois, urban, rural, Roma, working classβencountered by Belorusets on a multiyear journey through Eastern Ukraine.
STREET COP sees two literary masters joining forces to scrutinize the arc of the American myth. Art Spiegelmanβs first original book in more than a decade, this detective novelette explores contemporary politics, the future of urban life, and the working of memory in a digital world.
PURPLE PERILLA is a cycle of three short stories by the avant-garde Chinese writer Can Xue. Moving from an urban center into wilderness, they explore human confrontations with the unknown.
F LETTER: NEW RUSSIAN FEMINIST POETRY assembles the feminist poets who have palpably changed the Russian language over the past decade. Against the backdrop of state violence and oppression, this is electric dissent in pursuit of a democratic, egalitarian future.
SALMON: A RED HERRING accounts for how we ended up in a deceptive world where sparrows molt pink, dogs turn blue, and honey glows maraschino red; where pharaohs tint paint, laptops flavor fog, and farms feed color.