Cruel Optimism – $475
A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism...
View ArticleHans Ulrich Obrist: Interviews, Volume 2 – $1,095
Since Hans Ulrich Obrist–museum director, curator, writer, cultural instigator and professional conversationalist–released his bestselling first volume of interviews back in 2004, one wonders if...
View ArticleBuddha Mind in Contemporary Art – $945
Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art documents the growing presence of Buddhist perspectives in contemporary culture. This shift began in the nineteenth century and is now pervasive in many aspects of...
View ArticleCollected Fictions – $285
Gordon Lish, as fiction editor at Esquire magazine (where he earned the nickname “Captain Fiction”) and then at the publisher Alfred A. Knopf, shaped the work of many of the country’s foremost...
View ArticleMoment of Freedom: The Heiligenberg Manuscript – $395
The first novel in the acclaimed “History of Bestiality” trilogy. Living high in the Alps in a German principality, our narrator tells us he’s dutifully fulfilling his obligations as a Servant of...
View ArticleDance 2wice – $325
Dance 2wice is a collection of unique photographic essays dedicated to contemporary dance, distilled from the pages of the celebrated interdisciplinary arts journal 2wice. The images explore the...
View ArticleThe President in Her Towers – $295
THE PRESIDENT IN HER TOWERS is a deft, daft satire of bureaucracy, paranoia, professional envy, megalomania, the madness of specialization and the absence of transparency as they infect the university...
View ArticlePow! – $415
In this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, a benign old monk listens to a prospective novice’s tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama—in...
View ArticleLet It Be Morning – $245
In his debut, Dancing Arabs, Sayed Kashua established himself as one of the most daring voices of the Middle East. In his searing new novel, a young Arab journalist returns to his hometown — an Arab...
View ArticleThe Friday Gospels – $295
It’s Friday in the Leeke household, but this is no ordinary Friday: the Leekes are Lancastrian Mormons and tonight they will be welcoming back their son Gary from his two-year mission in Utah. His...
View ArticleIn Times of Fading Light: A Novel – $350
An enthrallingly expansive family saga set against the backdrop of the collapse of East German communism, from a major new international voice. In Times of Fading Light begins in September 2001 as...
View ArticleEmpire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle – $275
We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating...
View ArticleThe Fun Stuff: And Other Essays – $245
Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works—books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation—The Fun Stuff confirms Wood’s preeminence, not...
View ArticleEstelle Hanania – Dondoro – $525
Dondoro is a photographic work born from the collaboration between Estelle Hanania and the famous Japanese puppet master Hoichi Okamoto. Enigmatic creator who lived alone in the Japanese countryside...
View ArticleWork, Sex, and Power: The Forces that Shaped Our History – $575
The forces that shape our history are always contentious, yet our fascination with what drives the actions of the human race is inexhaustible. In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond proposed one set...
View ArticleMuseum Ideas: 487 pages of groundbreaking ideas – $1,195
Benefit from the creative ideas and valuable experience of 100 leading museum innovators based in 16 countries across 6 continents. This substantial and authoritative new 487 page volume brings...
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