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Tom Burr has created assemblages of personal writings and sources, differing...
Tom Burr, Anthology: Writings, 1991–2015, Ed. by Florence Derieux, Sternberg Press, 2015.Since the late 1980s, Tom Burr has been reusing appropriation strategies in his art. Not confined to his...
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Eleni Ikoniadou investigates the ways in which recent digital art experiments...
Eleni Ikoniadou, The Rhythmic Event: Art, Media, and the Sonictwitter.com/eleni_ikonThe sonic has come to occupy center stage in the arts and humanities. In the age of computational media, sound and...
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Mariam Motamedi Fraser explores the epistemological, experiential and...
Mariam Motamedi Fraser, Word: Beyond Language, Beyond Image, Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.Words are everywhere. Ubiquitous, pervasive. Yet our relations with words are narrowly defined. How does the...
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Marc Vincenz gave us a full cosmology, from the materia prima of tachyon...
Marc Vincenz, Mao’s Mole, Neopoiesis Press, 2013. "China throws long shadows. Somewhere between Mao's revelation of the use of the vast Chinese masses, and between Colonel Sanders and Steve Jobs'...
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Shadows of the Future: An Otherstream Anthology - There is the knownstream;...
Shadows of the Future: An Otherstream AnthologyShadows of the Future: An Otherstream Anthology, Ed. by Marc Vincenz, MadHat Press, 2014.free downloadIn 2013, Jeffrey Side, of Argotist Online, asked...
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Justin Herrmann - working-class lives and characters in Antarctica, Alaska,...
Justin Herrmann, Highway One,Antarctica, Madhat Press, 2014.excerptHighway 1, Antarctica is Justin Herrmann's debut collection of short fiction, describing working-class lives and characters in...
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We See a Different Frontier: A postcolonial speculative fiction anthology -...
We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology. Ed. by Fabio Fernandes and Djibril al-Ayad, Futurefire, 2013. This anthology of speculative fiction stories on...
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Klaus Merz - “We sharpened our / glances,” the poet writes in a three-liner,...
Klaus Merz, Out of the Dust, Trans. by Marc Vincenz, Spuyten Duyvil, 2014. excerpt“Klaus Merz shows us what remains until we become dust—and how in spite of this, we can even expose impermanence with...
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Jules Feiffer - a loving homage to the pulp-inspired films and comic strips...
Jules Feiffer, Kill My Mother, Liveright, 2014.A fantastic graphic novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, inspired by classic adventure strips he read as a child. Great for the aspiring...
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Ted Hiebert - A speculative exploration of theory, subjectivity and art in an...
Ted Hiebert, In Praise of Nonsense: Aesthetics, Uncertainty, and Postmodern Identity, Mcgill-Queens University Press, 2012.read it at Google BooksWhat is truth in the postmodern age? The artistic...
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Paul North - a once-in-a-generation reinterpretation of the oeuvre of Franz...
Paul North, The Yield: Kafka's Atheological Reformation, Stanford University Press, 2015.introductionThe Yield is a once-in-a-generation reinterpretation of the oeuvre of Franz Kafka. At the same time,...
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Joanna Walsh handles the seismic events of life--a child in intensive care, a...
Joanna Walsh, Hotel, Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.excerptDuring the breakdown of an unhappy marriage, writer Joanna Walsh got a job as a hotel reviewer, and began to gravitate towards places designed as...
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Ellis Sharp - Informed by influences as various as Swift, Gogol, Proust and...
Ellis Sharp, Lamees Najim:A Novel of the Information Age, Jetstone, 2015.This novel appears to be a response to the public success of Karl Ove Knausgaard and various other writers in the news for the...
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Sasha Sokolov - If Joyce had written the last chapter of Ulysses in Russian...
Sasha Sokolov, A School for Fools, Ztaqns. by Alexander Boguslawski, NYRB Classics, 2015.By turns lyrical and philosophical, witty and baffling, A School for Fools confounds all expectations of the...
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Uljana Wolf - Being truly between languages, the texts in this collection...
Uljana Wolf,i mean i dislike that fate that i was made to where, Trans. by Sophie Seita. Wonder, 2015.when it is time for oranges, ist keine zeit, no time at all, für nichts.Winner of the second Wonder...
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Evgeny Popov pokes fun at every aspect of Russian culture and tradition,...
Evgeny Popov, The Soul of a Patriot, Trans. by Robert Porter, Northwestern University Press, 1994.One of the liveliest novels to come out of Russia in recent years, The Soul of a Patriot is a...
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Harry E Northup - Make a poem from tennis, sweet potatoes & ruin. Make a poem...
Harry E Northup, East Hollywood: Memorial to Reason, Cahuenga Press, 2015.EAST HOLLYWOOD: MEMORIAL TO REASON is a long poem-memoir. The reader walks with Harry through the streets of East Hollywood as...
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Svetlana Alexievich - A chorus of fatalism, stoic bravery and black, black...
Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, Trans. by Keith Gessen, dalkey Archive Press, 2005.excerptexcerpt 2excerpt 3On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear...
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Justin Limoli - a perfect example of a Poets Theater recent subgenre, Poetics...
Justin Limoli,Bloodletting in Minor Scales [A Canvas in Arms.]. Plays Inverse, 2015. PreviewA mother attempts suicide and fails. Life goes on, but as her family picks up the pieces, gratitude...
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Aashish Kaul - The precisely realized yet dreamlike settings of Aashish...
Aashish Kaul, The Queen's Play, Roundfire Books, 2015.read it at Google BooksIn the second age of the world, a time of prehistory, a time of myth, Mandodari, queen of the demon king Ravana, invents...
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