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Explaining Death to Children - sorcerous activism : communal witchwork :...
Explaining Death to Children, Void Front Press, 2018.vol 1 download PDF herevol 2 download PDF here(best viewed two pages side by side)black magic + green magic + red magicsorcerous activism : communal...
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Alex Pheby's extraordinary novel takes us inside the darkness of Lucia Joyce...
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Ania Walwicz - Work crosses boundaries between poetics, theory and...
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Gonzalo C. Garcia - At twenty-seven, single again after a brief shared life...
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Andrew Elias Colarusso - A hybrid chronicle stretching itself in every...
Andrew Elias Colarusso, The Sovereign, Dalkey Archive Press,2017.13 October ―01 and inching toward midnight, Lieutenant Frances Villegas sits at a Steinway trying desperately to play Stravinsky’s...
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Ross Simonini - a fascinating take on the cult of personality: about...
Ross Simonini, The Book of Formation, Melville House, 2017.This debut novel—told in interviews—spans 20 years in the rise and fall of the charismatic leader of a seductive self-help movement.In the...
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Ross Simonini - a fascinating take on the cult of personality: about...
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Philip Ording - a multifaceted perspective on mathematics by demonstrating 99...
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Hope Jennings - This groundbreaking portrait of an unknown and possibly...
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Joseph Perl - Announced as "the first Hebrew novel," this brainy and weighty...
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Christopher Manson - “This is not really a book. This is a building in the...
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Mark Mayer - An assortment of quirky, intricate stories connected by the...
Mark Mayer, Aerialists: Stories, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.www.markgmayer.com"Mark Mayer writes with a humorous, wistful elegance. His stories are singular, as detached and intimate as...
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Lukáš Tomin - A martyrised allegory of itself, The Doll is like an unredeemed...
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Paul Hawkins takes appropriated text from the world of Formula One Motor...
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Gabriela Alemán - One part Pynchon, one part García Marquez, and one part...
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Jo Lendle - fictionalised account of the life of polar explorer, Alfred...
Jo Lendle, All the Land, Trans. byKaty Derbyshire, Seagull Books, 2019.How, in 1930, did Alfred Wegener, the son of minister from Berlin, find himself in the most isolated spot on earth, attempting to...
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Abu l-Ala al-Maarri - One of the most unusual books in classical Arabic...
Abu l-Ala al-Maarri, The Epistle of Forgiveness: Volumes One and Two, Trans. by Gregor Schoeler and Geert Jan Van GelderNYU Press; Reprint ed., 2016. One of the most unusual books in classical Arabic...
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