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Other Things

Brown Bill

ISBN: PB: 9780226283029, ISBN: HB: 9780226076652, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 colour plates, 30 halftones

From the pencil to the puppet to the drone – the humanities continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? In "Other Thin...

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Fiction

The German List

Old Masters A Comedy

Bernhard Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780857424709, Seagull Books, October 2018
160 pp., 24.1x17 cm

Thomas Bernhard's "Old Masters" has been called his "most enjoyable novel" by the New York Review of Books. It's a wild satire that takes place almost entirely in front of Tintoretto's "White-Bearded Man", on display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum,...

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On My Aunt's Shallow Grave White Roses Have Already Bloomed

Mitsora Maria, Moe Jacob

ISBN: PB: 9780300215762, Yale University Press, September 2018
200 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

This collection assembles sixteen of Maria Mitsora's short stories in what adds up to be a retrospective of the author's work, spanning forty years. Moving across the urban netherworld of Athens to imagined Latin American towns and science-fiction dy...

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On the Contrary

Raphael Frederic

ISBN: PB: 9781784104368, Carcanet, April 2018
360 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Candid and sometimes scathing memoirs from the Oscar-award-winning screenwriter of Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. On the Contrary is a Proustian parade of people and events (including Thatcher and the Falklands war), written with the vividness and...

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Literary Criticism

Middle East

Other Middle East An Anthology of Modern Levantine Literature

Salameh Franck

ISBN: HB: 9780300204445, Yale University Press, February 2018
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

This unique literary collection offers a window on the contemporary Levant, a region comprising most of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Cyprus, parts of southern Turkey and northwestern Iraq, and the Sinai Peninsula. Originally written in...

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Literary Criticism

On War and Writing

Hynes Samuel

ISBN: HB: 9780226468785, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 halftones

"In our imaginations, war is the name we give to the extremes of violence in our lives, the dark dividing opposite of the connecting myth, which we call love. War enacts the great antagonisms of history, the agonies of nations; but it also offers met...

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Poetry

On Trust A Book of Lies

Womack James

ISBN: PB: 9781784104160, Carcanet, November 2017
112 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"On Trust" is a collection of poems organised around the idea of telling the truth. Inspired by the idea that poetry is often seen as being a vehicle for the articulation of individual truths, or as a medium for unvarnished and unprocessed confession...

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Poetry

On Balance

Morrissey Sinead

ISBN: PB: 9781784103606, Carcanet, May 2017
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Teetering on the brink of various crises, Sinead Morrissey's poems consider spectacular feats of human engineering – ships, planes, robots – from our radically unstable perspective, struggling for poise. Poems become pliable; the dead speak.

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History

Outward Mind Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature

Morgan Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780226462202, ISBN: HB: 9780226442112, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Though underexplored in contemporary scholarship, the Victorian attempts to turn aesthetics into a science remain one of the most fascinating aspects of that era. In "The Outward Mind", Benjamin Morgan approaches this period of innovation as an impor...

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Poetry

On Bunyah

Murray Les

ISBN: PB: 9781784104986, Carcanet, March 2017
152 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"Bunyah has been my refuge and home place all my life. This book concentrates on the smallest habitats of community, the scattered village and the lone house, where space makes the isolated dwelling into an illusory distant city ruled by its family a...

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