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by Julia Kristeva, Philippe Sollers
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016

"We found so much to say, to share, to learn.... For it wasn't just the Marquis de Sade profile and the sporty thighs-and-calves that seduced me. It was even more, perhaps, or certainly just as much, the speed at which you used to read, and still do."—Julia Kristeva "We're...
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Hard-Boiled Sentimentality

The Secret History of American Crime Stories

by Leonard Cassuto
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008

Leonard Cassuto's cultural history links the testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime stories to the sensitive women of the nineteenth-century sentimental novel. From classics like The Big Sleep and The Talented Mr. Ripley to neglected paperback gems, Cassuto chronicles the dialogue--centered...
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Edwin Arlington Robinson

A Poet's Life

by Scott Donaldson
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007

At the time of his death in 1935, Edwin Arlington Robinson was regarded as the leading American poet-the equal of Frost and Stevens. In this biography, Scott Donaldson tells the intriguing story of this poet's life, based in large part on a previously unavailable trove of more than 3,000 personal...
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Brevity

A Flash Fiction Handbook

by David Galef
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016

In Brevity, David Galef provides a guide to writing flash fiction, from tips on technique to samples by canonical and contemporary authors to provocative prompts that inspire powerful stories in a little space. Galef traces the genre back to its varied origins, from the short-short to nanofiction,...
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Political Uses of Utopia

New Marxist, Anarchist, and Radical Democratic Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017

Utopia has long been banished from political theory, framed as an impossible—and possibly dangerous—political ideal, a flawed social blueprint, or a thought experiment without any practical import. Even the "realistic utopias" of liberal theory strike many as wishful thinking. Can politics...
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Inside the Red Box

North Korea's Post-totalitarian Politics

by Patrick McEachern
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010

North Korea's institutional politics defy traditional political models, making the country's actions seem surprising or confusing when, in fact, they often conform to the regime's own logic. Drawing on recent materials, such as North Korean speeches, commentaries, and articles, Patrick McEachern,...
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by Jonathan Soffer
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010

In 1978, Ed Koch assumed control of a city plagued by filth, crime, bankruptcy, and racial tensions. By the end of his mayoral run in 1989 and despite the Wall Street crash of 1987, his administration had begun rebuilding neighborhoods and infrastructure. Unlike many American cities, Koch's New York...
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by Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaid
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011

"Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?" In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy, along with its critical weaknesses, and reconceive the practice to accommodate new political...
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Ethical Loneliness

The Injustice of Not Being Heard

by Jill Stauffer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

Ethical loneliness is the experience of being abandoned by humanity, compounded by the cruelty of wrongs not being acknowledged. It is the result of multiple lapses on the part of human beings and political institutions that, in failing to listen well to survivors, deny them redress by negating their...
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Virginia Woolf

A Portrait

by Viviane Forrester
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015

Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. Virginia Woolf: A Portrait blends recently unearthed documents, key primary sources, and personal interviews...
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The Problem with Pleasure

Modernism and Its Discontents

by Laura Frost
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013

Aldous Huxley decried "the horrors of modern 'pleasure,'" or the proliferation of mass produced, widely accessible entertainment that could degrade or dull the mind. He and his contemporaries, including James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, D. H. Lawrence, and Jean Rhys, sought to radically...
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by Noam Chomsky
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015

Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection...
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Feminist Consequences

Theory for the New Century

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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2001

Exploring the status of feminism in this "postfeminist" age, this sophisticated meditation on feminist thinking over the past three decades moves away from the all too common dependence on French theorists and male thinkers and instead builds on a wide-ranging body of feminist theory written...
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by Judith Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011

Novels began to incorporate literary theory in unexpected ways in the late twentieth century. Through allusion, parody, or implicit critique, theory formed an additional strand in fiction that raised questions about the nature of authorship and the practice of writing. Studying this phenomenon provides...
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