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Annelyse Gelman - From Greek mythology to Top 40, Pavlov to Sartre, the space...
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Vikram Paralkar - a series of very short, psychologically dense entries, each...
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When Site Lost the Plot - How can we do justice to the particularity of local...
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Christian Bobin honors Dickinson in the form of a brief, poetically imagined...
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Kurd Lasswitz’s 1897 utopian novel describes man’s first encounter with...
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Dominique Fabre, born in Paris and a lifelong resident of the city, exposes...
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CrimethInc. - After so much technological progress, why do we have to work...
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Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen - a strange chimera of snow-bound noir and creeping...
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T. Shanaathanan - It is art, but in the form of a book that deftly entwines...
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K. D. - John Barlow is asked to ghostwrite a novel about secretive tax...
K. D., Headless, Sternberg Press, 2015.With an introduction by Alexander Provan When workaday author John Barlow is asked to ghostwrite a novel about secretive tax havens, he assumes the job will be...
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Textures of the Anthropocene: Grain Vapor Ray - These volumes constitute a...
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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz - one of the greatest expressions ever of the...
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Yuri Herrera explores the actual and psychological crossings and translations...
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Seth Kim-Cohen - Rather than the warm glow of light or the soothing wash of...
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Madeline ffitch - Befriend thieves, crawl woods, pick fights, steal cars,...
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Louis Bury - an experiment in applied poetics in which critic and poet Louis...
Louis Bury, Exercises in Criticism: The Theory and Practice of Literary Constraint. Dalkey Archive Press, 2015.Exercises in Criticism is an experiment in applied poetics in which critic and poet Louis...
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Walter Abish - About Africa. Alphabets. Angolans. Animals. Alligators. Ants....
Walter Abish, How German Is It, New Directions, 1980. read it at Google Books Ulrich Hargenau testifies against fellow members of a German terrorist group in order to save himself...
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Bernard Noël - The author recounts an intense initiatory sexual quest which...
Bernard Noël, The Castle of Communion, Trans. by Paul Buck and Glenda George, Atlas Press, 1993.When Le Château de Cène (here translated as The Castle of Communion) first appeared in France in 1969,...
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