Hogarth, April 2019. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE - "A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships" (People) from Sally Rooney, the author of Conversations with Friends and "a master of the literary page-turner" (J. Courtney Sullivan). "Fresh and accessible .... More about Normal People: A Novel
Blue Rider Press, May 2018. Trade Paperback. New York Times-bestselling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman sorts through the past decade and how we got to now. Chuck Klosterman has created an incomparable body of work in books, magazines, newspapers, and on the Web. His writing spans the realms of... More about Chuck Klosterman X
Verso, March 2019. Paper Back. Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Do the financiers and developers control access to urban... More about Rebel Cities
The MIT Press, August 2016. Paper Back. The real story of how our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes--with or without "brain training." Fifty years ago, neuroscientists thought that a mature brain was fixed like a fly in amber, unable to change. Today, we know that our brains... More about Neuroplasticity (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
William Morrow Paperbacks, April 2019. Paper Back. "THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY," hails Scientific American A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. A New York Times Bestseller - Goodreads Choice Awards WINNER A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Smithsonian, NPR Science Friday... More about The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of Their Lost World
Fourth Estate, May 2019. Hardcover. 'This is essential' Margaret Atwood on Twitter'The single best book that I have read about the populist, authoritarian trend that is remaking our world' Benjamin Rhodes, author of The World As It Is'Vibrates with outrage' The Times 'It couldn't happen here' Ece Temelkuran heard reasonable... More about How to Lose a Country
Harvest Books, June 1992. Trade Paperback. When it was first published in 1944, this novel sparked immediate controversy and became a huge bestseller. It captured with devastating accuracy the deep-seated racial conflicts of a tightly knit southern town. The book is as engrossing and incendiary now as the day it was written. More about Strange Fruit
Vintage, April 2019. Paper Back. One of the TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR New York Times Book Review One of the Best Books of the Year The Boston Globe ● The Washington Post ● Time ● Entertainment Weekly ● San Francisco Chronicle ● Financial Times ● Minneapolis Star Tribune... More about Washington Black
Random House Trade Paperbacks, May 2019. Trade Paperback. A bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades from the bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and The Coming Anarchy "[Kaplan] has emerged not only as an eloquent defender of foreign-policy realism but as... More about The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century
Penguin Classics, April 2019. Paper Back. For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White. June 28, 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, which... More about The Stonewall Reader
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, January 1969. Trade Paperback. Now in paper, Georges Bataille's three short pieces of [erotic] prose which fuse elements of sex and spirituality in a highly personal vision of the flesh. "...heaves with necrophiliac undercurrents".--The Observer [fiction][out/post]. More about My Mother, Madame Edwarda and The Dead Man
City Lights, June 1989. Trade Paperback. Tears of Eros is the culmination of Georges Bataille's inquiries into the relationship between violence and the sacred. Taking up such figures as Giles de Rais, Erzebet Bathory, the Marquis de Sade, El Greco, Gustave Moreau, Andre Breton, Voodoo practitioners, and Chinese torture victims... More about Tears of Eros
Scb Distributors, January 1991. Trade Paperback. Georges Bataille presents the case of the most infamous villain of the Middle Ages: Gilles de Rais. Fascinated with the depths of human experience-the meeting points of sexuality, violence, ritual, spirituality, and death-Bataille examines with dispassionate clarity the legendary crimes, trials and confessions of... More about Trial of Gilles De Rais
Paragon House Publishers, March 1994. Paper Back. Hailed by Martin Heidegger as "one of France's best minds," Georges Bataille has become increasingly recognized and respected in the realm of academic and popular intellectual thought. Although Bataille died in 1962, interest in his life and writings have never been as strong... More about On Nietzsche
Lapis Press, October 1988. Trade Paperback. More about Guilty
Pathfinder Press (NY), June 1978. Trade Paperback. Writings of the best-known leader of the Surrealist movement. Includes a facsimile reproduction of the 1942 Surrealist Album by Andre Breton. More about What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings
Random House Inc, September 1995. Trade Paperback. In his first novel, A Happy Death, written when he was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in I960, Albert Camus laid the foundation for The Stranger, focusing in both works on an Algerian clerk who... More about Happy Death
Vintage, May 1991. Trade Paperback. More about The Fall (Vintage International
Vintage, August 1996. Trade Paperback. Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the... More about The First Man
Vintage, September 1995. Trade Paperback. In the speech he gave upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Albert Camus said that a writer "cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it." And in these twenty-three political essays, he demonstrates his... More about Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays (Vintage International
Vintage, November 1991. Trade Paperback. More about Exile and the Kingdom
Spear Marlowe & Company, July 1995. Trade Paperback. More about American Journals
Vintage, January 1992. Trade Paperback. By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of... More about The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
Marlowe & Co, March 1995. Trade Paperback. More about Conversations: The Autobiography of Surrealism
Grove, June 1960. Trade Paperback. "Nadja, " originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance ever written, a book which defined that movement's attitude toward everyday life. The principal narrative is an account of the author's relationship with a girl in teh city of... More about Nadja
