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Josep Maria De Sagarra - a scathing critique of the decadent and disappearing...
Josep Maria De Sagarra, Private Life, Trans. by Mary Ann Newman, Archipelago, 2015. [1932.]In 1932 Josep Maria de Sagarra set out to write the great Catalan novel, an urban antidote to the rural tales...
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Olivia Rosenthal takes on a frightening subject, Alzheimer’s disease, without...
Olivia Rosenthal, We're Not Here to Disappear, Trans. by Béatrice Mousli, Otis Books/Seismicity Editions, 2015. [2007.]Recipient of the Prix Wepler Fondation La Poste and the...
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Ceridwen Dovey - Wonderfully weird and profoundly witty, Australian writer...
Ceridwen Dovey, Only the Animals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. www.ceridwendovey.com/Perhaps only the animals can tell us what it is to be humanThe souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts...
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Sara Deniz Akant forges a new language (think Rimbaud’s colored vowels pushed...
Sara Deniz Akant, Babette,Rescue Press, 2015.Sara Deniz Akant's BABETTE, selected by Maggie Nelson for Rescue Press' Black Box Poetry Prize, mixes motor-thrum with incantation, promising to "make no...
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David Sylvian - An immaculate and thorough retrospective, Hypergraphia’s...
David Sylvian, Hypergraphia: The Writings of David Sylvian 1980-2014, Opium (Arts), 2015.www.davidsylvian.net/A comprehensive collection of David Sylvian's lyrics and poetry accompanied by an exquisite...
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Frank Witzel - This eminent novel – comparable to David Forster Wallace’s...
Frank Witzel, Die Erfindung der Roten Armee Fraktion durch einen manisch-depressiven Teenager im Sommer 1969, Matthes & Seitz Berlin,2015.sample translationWinner of the German Book Prize 2015!The...
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Álvaro Enrigue - Sudden Death begins with a brutal tennis match that could...
Álvaro Enrigue, Sudden Death: A Novel, Trans. by Natasha Wimmer, Riverhead Books, 2016.A daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas in the sixteenth century that continue to...
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'Spindles: Stories from the Science of Sleep' - 14 authors have been invited...
Spindles: Stories from the Science of Sleep, Edited by Ra Page & Penny Lewis, Comma Press, 2015.Featuring Martyn Bedford, Zoe Gilbert, Andy Hedgecock, Adam Marek, Lisa Blower, Claire Dean,...
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Roger Bartra - Human consciousness occurs not only in the brain, but...
Roger Bartra, Anthropology of the Brain: Consciousness, Culture, and Free Will, Trans. by Gusti Gould, Cambridge University Press, 2014. read...
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Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum - To the toolkit of privacy protecting...
Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum, Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest, The MIT Press, 2015. With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are...
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'(Dis)Orienting Media and Narrative Mazes' - today, finding your way in the...
(Dis)Orienting Media and Narrative Mazes, Ed. by Julia Eckel, Bernd Leiendecker, Daniela Olek and Christine Piepiorka, Transcript-Verlag, 2013.read it at Google Books(Dis)Orientation appears to be a...
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Rosa Menkman - The book makes sense of recent glitch art and culture:...
Rosa Menkman, The Glitch Moment(um). Network Notebooks 04, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2011. download hereIn this book, Rosa Menkman brings in early information theorists not usually...
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Juan Villoro - From the semiotics of pet iguanas to the disillusionment of...
Juan Villoro, The Guilty: Stories, Trans. by Kimberly Traube, George Braziller, 2015. Mayan Dusk by Juan Villoro“The literature of Juan Villoro… is opening up the path of the new Spanish novel...
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'C’Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader' - Based on non-conventional approaches...
C’Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader,Katrien Jacobs, Marije Janssen and Matteo Pasquinelli eds., Institute of Network Cultures, 2007. download hereC’Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader is an anthology...
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Pedro Serrano - gutsy, bodily poetry. Verbiage is associated with the...
Pedro Serrano,Peatlands, Trans. by Anna Crowe, Arc Publications, 2014. The poems in the...
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Andrés Barba - A powerful mixture of delicacy and violence, realism and...
Andrés Barba, August, October, Trans. by Lisa Dillman, Hispabooks, 2015. Fourteen-year-old Tomás goes with his well-off family on their usual seaside summer holiday, but he is at...
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John Marmysz - Following the death of his mother and the increasingly bizarre...
John Marmysz, The Nihilist, No Frills Buffalo, 2015.marmysz.wordpress.com/tag/john-marmysz/It seems so important as you do what you do, But in times to come no one remembers you. Your actions are...
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Art in the Anthropocene - Taking as its premise that the proposed geologic...
Art in the Anthropocene: Critical Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environment and Epistemologies, Ed. by Heather Davis and Etienne Turpin,Open Humanities Press / Critical Climate Change Series,...
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Luis Felipe Fabre's poems are built out of sixteenth century octosyllabic...
Luis Felipe Fabre, Sor Juana and Other Monsters, Trans. by John Pluecker, UglyDuckling Presse, 2015.Sor Juana and Other MonstersNotes on a Zombie CataclysmIn seventeenth century, colonial-era Mexico,...
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Kristin Prevallet - Screw the wisdom of old men, let’s hear about their...
Kristin Prevallet, Trance Poetics: Your Writing Mind, Wide Reality Books, 2013.Trance Poetics Introductionwww.kayvallet.com/Drawing from the fields of clinical hypnosis, neuroscience, energy...
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