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Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Societies
Stanford University Press, January 2000. Paper Back. Confined in their governmental ivory towers, their actions largely dictated by public opinion polls, politicians and state officials are all too often oblivious to the everyday lives of ordinary citizens. These persons, who often experience so much hardship in their lives, have few..... More
Language of Life
Doubleday Books, June 1995. Hardcover. "Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big difference. They have the power--the power of the word--to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. We only have to learn to listen." In a series of fascinating..... More
Genesis
Doubleday Books, January 1996. Hardcover. People need stories to make sense of the world--to hold their lives together, and to fasten on to those values that last. The greatest stories are found in the Bible, enduring through the centuries. In "Genesis, " acclaimed television journalist Bill Moyers brings together some..... More
Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
Knopf Publishing Group, February 1995. Hardcover. The acclaimed author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat offers portraits of seven men and women who have succeeded in adapting and finding powers that transform their very identity and lives--and show us a new perspective on the..... More
Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Anchor, January 2009. Trade Paperback. This groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter in "The Age of Neoslavery." By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this..... More
The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic
Atlantic Monthly Press, March 2024. Hardcover. The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, and the making of a comedic film classic that helped shape our popular culture "They're not going to catch us," Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his..... More
The Devil's Best Trick
Atlantic Monthly Press, May 2024. Hardcover. Part true crime story, part religious and literary history, an investigation into the nature of evil and the figure of the Devil by acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan How we explain the evils of the world - and the darkest parts of ourselves - has..... More
The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3
Grove Press, February 2024. Paper Back. The startling, vivid debut novel by Alexei Navalny's press secretary, following a woman who is arrested at an anti-corruption rally in Moscow and sentenced to ten days in a special detention center, where she shares a cell with five other women from all walks..... More
The Blue Maiden
Grove Press, May 2024. Hardcover. From the author of Indie Next Pick and New York Times Editors' Choice Goodnight, Beautiful Women comes a transportive and chilling debut novel of two sisters growing up on an isolated Northern European island in the shadow of their late mother and the Devil It's..... More
Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
Nightboat Books, July 2019. Paper Back. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry Mitchell with lush illustrations by Ned Asta, published by Calamus Press in 1977. Part-fable, part-manifesto, the book takes place in Ramrod, an empire in decline, and introduces us..... More
The Silence of the Choir
Europa Editions, May 2024. Paper Back. A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024 FROM THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MOST SECRET MEMORY OF MEN A polyphonic tale of immigration and community by "the most promising Senegalese writer of his generation" (Le Monde) and winner of the 2021..... More
The Wretched of the Earth
Grove Press, October 2021. Paper Back. The sixtieth anniversary edition of Frantz Fanon's landmark text, now with a new introduction by Cornel West First published in 1961, and reissued in this sixtieth anniversary edition with a powerful new introduction by Cornel West, Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth is..... More
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 2024. Paper Back. Frazier's personalized arrangements of her compelling photographs recognize the myriad social and political struggles of Black working-class communities For more than two decades, artist-activist LaToya Ruby Frazier has used photography, text, moving images and performance to revive and preserve..... More
Hardly Harmless Drudgery: A 500-Year Pictorial History of the Lexicographic Geniuses, Sciolists, Plagiarists, and Obsessives Who Defined the English Language
David R. Godine, Publisher, April 2024. Hardcover. "A delight"--Booklist A richly illustrated historical account of English-language dictionaries, and the people who made them, from the dawn of printing to the present day. Dictionaries are repositories of erudition, monuments to linguistic authority, and battlefields in cultural and political struggles. For centuries..... More
Lunch Poems
Consortium Book Sales & Dist, January 0001. Trade Paperback. Essential poems by the late New York poet. Lunch Poems, first published in 1964 by City Lights Books as number nineteen in the Pocket Poets series, is widely considered to be Frank O'Hara's freshest and most accomplished collection of poetry. Edited..... More
And Then He Sang a Lullaby
Roxane Gay Books, May 2024. Paper Back. Winner of Publishing Triangle's Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction A searingly honest and resonant debut from a Nigerian writer and queer liberation activist, exploring what love and freedom cost in a society steeped in homophobia The inaugural title from the most buzzed-about..... More
Sniffin' Glue: And Other Rock n' Roll Habits
Omnibus Press, May 2024. Paper Back. The seminal Sniffin' Glue fanzine, collected here in its entirety, is a potent slice of 1967 / 77 punk culture. The book, which reproduces all twelve issues as well as insights from its creator Mark Perry, is back in print and all copies come..... More
Dark Luminosity: Memoirs of a Geezer, the expanded edition
Faber & Faber, May 2024. Paper Back. More
Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets Series, Number Four)
City Lights Books, May 1980. Trade Paperback. The landmark, original publication of Allen Ginsberg's HOWL & Other Poems! HOWL & Other Poems, the prophetic book that launched the Beat Generation, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Books in 1956. Considered the single most influential work of post-WWII United..... More
Twist: An American Girl
ZE Books, May 2024. Paper Back. One of the most original, amazing stories I've ever read" (Mary Gaitskill), iconic rock-and-roll musician Adele Bertei's memoir Twist is her harrowing and electric story of transforming trauma through art, pluck, and imagination, as told through the inimitable voice of her young alter ego..... More
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea: A Novel
Milkweed Editions, May 2024. Paper Back. Winner of the Montana Book Award From the award-winning author of Perma Red comes a devastatingly beautiful novel that challenges prevailing historical narratives of Sacajewea. "In my seventh winter, when my head only reached my Appe's rib, a White Man came into camp. Bare..... More
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
Penguin Press, June 2023. Hardcover. An instant New York Times bestseller! A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 Named a Best Book of 2023 by Publishers Weekly From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a brilliant scientific investigation into owls--the most elusive of birds--and..... More
The Skin of Dreams (New York Review Books Classics)
NYRB Classics, January 2024. Paper Back. In this delightful, cinema-inspired daydream of a novel, an identity-shifting protagonist uses the everyday inspirations of his life to catapult himself into the realm of imagination, blurring the boundaries between reality and fantasy. The Skin of Dreams is a novel of waking dreams. Even..... More