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We the Animals
A novel by Justin Torres

Butch Queens Up in Pumps
A work in Black queer formation by Marlon M. Bailey

Monstrous Motherhood
A study of eighteenth-century literature and culture by Marilyn Francus

Senses of Vibration: A History of the Pleasure and Pain of Sound
A materialist history of the senses by Shelley Trower

An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
A book of photography by Taryn Simon

Birds of the West Indies
A book of photography by Taryn Simon

Luminous Chaos
A novel by Jean-Christophe Valtat

The Mussel Feast
A novel by Birgit Vanderbeke

Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West
A work of medieval scholarship by Lynda Coon

Picturing the Book of Nature
A work in the history of science by Sachiko Kusukawa

The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
A long poem by Aimé Césaire

Satantango
A novel by László Krasznahorkai

Satantango
A film directed by Bela Tarr

Engine Empire
A collection of poems by Cathy Park Hong

Swans of the Kremlin: Ballet and Power in Soviet Russia
A work in the history of dance by Christina Ezrahi

Hideous Progeny
A work of film theory by Angela Smith

Anthology of Essays on Deep Listening
Edited by Monique Buzzarté and Tom Bickley

The Tragedy of Mariam
A closet drama by Elizabeth Cary

Knowing Books: The Consciousness of Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain
A historical treatment of material texts by Christina Lupton

Doña Bárbara
A novel by Rómulo Gallegos

Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus
A Biography by Lisa Jarnot

The Style of Gestures: Embodiment and Cognition in Literary Narrative
A work of literary theory by Guillemette Bolens

Whitman’s Queer Children: America’s Homosexual Epics
A work of literary scholarship by Catherine A. Davies

Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education
An educational treatise by Mike Rose

The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies
A work of opera studies edited by Nicholas Till

The Flamethrowers
A novel by Rachel Kushner

The Decadent Republic of Letters
A work of aesthetic history by Matthew Potolsky

Domesticating the Airwaves: Broadcasting, Domesticity and Femininity
A work of feminist and media history by Maggie Andrews

Fictions of the Cosmos: Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century
A work of literary scholarship by Frédérique Aït-Touati

Unseasonable Youth: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development
A work of literary criticism by Jed Esty

Diary
A diary and collection of essays by Witold Gombrowicz

Orgasmology
A work in sexuality studies by Annamarie Jagose

The Anthropology of Extinction: Essays on Culture and Species Death
An analysis of extinction, edited by Genese Marie Sodikoff

Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
A work of urban theory by David Harvey

Mind, Modernity, Madness: The Impact of Culture on Human Experience
A work of critical theory by Liah Greenfeld

Black Regions of the Imagination
A work of literary scholarship by Eve Dunbar

The Group
A work of fiction by Mary McCarthy

Sin and Filth in Medieval Culture: The Devil in the Latrine
A work of medieval scholarship by Martha Bayless

The History of British Women’s Writing, 700-1500, Volume One
A work of literary scholarship edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy and Diane Watt

The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing
A work of critical taxidermy by Rachel Poliquin

Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music
A work of music scholarship by David Suisman

Zone One
A dystopian novel by Colson Whitehead

After Midnight
A novel by Irmgard Keun

The Telegraph in America, 1832-1920
A study in the history of technology by David Hochfelder
Robert Ashley
A work of music criticism by Kyle Gann

A History of Opera
A work of musicology by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker

Hitchcock’s Ear, Music and the Director’s Art
A work of music criticism by David Schroeder

S P R A W L
A novel in one paragraph by Danielle Dutton

The Address Book
A photo-journal detective memoir by Sophie Calle

Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Always in Trouble: An Oral History of ESP-Disk’
An oral history of the experimental record label by Jason Weiss

Swimming Home
A novel by Deborah Levy

The Origins and Foundations of Music Education
A work of music criticism edited by Gordon Cox and Robin Stevens

Tribute to Freud
A psychoanalytic memoir by H. D.

Coma
A memoir by Pierre Guyotat

Conquered City
A novel by Victor Serge

A Short History of Cahiers du cinéma
A work of film scholarship by Emilie Bickerton

Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature: Negotiations of National Identity
A work of literary scholarship by Larissa Tracy

The New Yorker Stories
A collection of short story collection by Ann Beattie

Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction
A work of music criticism by Caleb Kelly

The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise
A novel by Georges Perec

Celluloid Symphonies: Texts and Contexts in Film Music History
A work of music criticism by Julie Hubbert

Beowulf
A translation by Thomas Meyer

No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control
A discussion of the politics of an (inter)national cartography by Mark Monmonier

Where Art Belongs
A work of art criticism by Chris Kraus

03
A novella (in one paragraph) by Jean-Christophe Valtat

An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization
A work of critical theory by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

The Sounds of Capitalism: Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture
A work of music criticism by Timothy D. Taylor

Minuet for Guitar
A Novel by Vitomil Zupan

Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural
An exploration of contemporary Gothic literature by Victoria Nelson

Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad
An interpretation of Homer’s Iliad by Alice Oswald

Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener
A work of music criticism by David Toop

Leaving the Atocha Station
A Novel by Ben Lerner

Men Undressed
An anthology of women writing about sex from the male perspective

Elliott Carter
A work of music criticism by James Wierzbicki

Three Plays: Lascivious Something/Roadkill Confidential/That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play
A collection of plays by Sheila Callaghan

No Enemies, No Hatred
A collection of writings by Liu Xiaobo

The Memory of Place: A Phenomenology of the Uncanny
A work of Continental Philosophy by Dylan Trigg

I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women
Edited by Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place

Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing
Edited by Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith

The Possible is Monstrous
A Collection of Poems by Friedrich Dürrenmatt Translated by Daniele Pantano

Imaginary Games
A philosophical investigation of play and imaginary things by Chris Bateman

The Ellington Century
A work of music criticism by David Schiff

The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story
A work of literary criticism by Frank O’Connor

Words and Music: Camus, Beckett, Cage, Gould
A work of music criticism by Deborah Weagel
The Total Work of Art in European Modernism
A work of art criticism by David Roberts

The Museum of Eterna’s Novel (the First Good Novel)
A novel by Macedonio Fernandez

The End of the West
A collection of poems by Michael Dickman

Some Math
A Collection of Poetry by Bill Luoma

My Name is Victoria
A memoir by Victoria Donda Translated from the Spanish by Magda Bodin

Facing Beauty: Painted Women & Cosmetic Art
A critical analysis of concepts of female beauty by Aileen Ribeiro

Special Sound: The Creation and Legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
A work of music criticism by Louis Niebur

Scars
A novel by Juan José Saer Translated from the Spanish by Steve Dolph

“A”
A collection of poems by Louis Zukofsky

The Cows
A prose observation of three cows by Lydia Davis

Lightning Rods
A Novel by Helen DeWitt

Electric Eden
A work of music criticism by Rob Young

Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood
A memoir by Peter Bebergal

Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems
A selection of poems by Tadeusz Rozewicz Translated by Joanna Trzeciak

Modern Poetry of Pakistan Selected by Iftikar Arif
Translations Edited by Waqas Khwaja

A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos
A Collection of Poems by Tim Dlugos Edited by David Trinidad

The French Exit
A Collection of Poems by Elisa Gabbert

Man Years
A Collection of Poems by Sandra Doller

The Book of Interfering Bodies
A Collection of Poems by Daniel Borzutzky

Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile
A Memoir by Ariel Dorfman

The Necrophiliac
A Novel by Gabrielle Wittkop Translated from the French by Don Bapst

Happy Birthday, Turk!
A novel by Jakob Arjouni Translated from the German by Anselm Hollo

Poet by Default
Poetry by Tristan Corbière Translated by Noelle Kocot

De Rerum Natura – The Nature of Things
A philosophical poem by Lucretius Translated from the Latin by David R. Slavitt

When Opera Meets Film
by Marcia J. Citron

Circle’s Apprentice
Poetry by Dan Beachy-Quick

New Selected Poems and Translations
A collection of poetry by Ezra Pound, edited by Richard Sieburth

The H.D. Book
A work of poetry criticism by Robert Duncan, edited by Michael Boughn and Victor Coleman

The Wide Road
By Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian

Money Shot
Poetry by Rae Armantrout

Ambient Parking Lot
A novel by Pamela Lu

You Have Given Me A Country
A memoir by Neela Vaswani

Writing Art Cinema 1988-2010
A collection of essays by Stephen Lapthisophon

The Country of the Pointed Firs
A novella by Sarah Orne Jewett

Quintessence of the Minor: Symbolist Poetry in English
A Work of Literary Criticism by Garrett Caples

Absolute Music, Mechanical Reproduction
A Work of Music Criticism by Arved Ashby
Beauport
A Collection of Poems by Kate Colby
The Fetch
A Collection of Poems by Nico Rogers
C
A Novel by Tom McCarthy
No Such Thing As Silence: John Cage’s 4’33”
A Work of Music Criticism by Kyle Gann
Red Rain
A Novel by Bruce Murkoff
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A Work of Nonfiction by Dominic Fox
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A Documentary Film Directed by Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites
width=Century of Clouds
A Memoir by Bruce Boone
width=The Book of Frank
A Collection of Poems by CA Conrad
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Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology
Translated and Edited by David Hinton
Narration
A Collection of Lectures by Gertrude Stein
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A Novel by Jean-Christophe Valtat
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A Collection of Poems by Guillevic
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A Novel by Brady Udall
Tinkers
A Novel by Paul Harding
width= The Passion Artist
A novel by John Hawkes
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The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart
A Collection of Poems by Deborah Digges
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By Louis Paul Boon
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A novel by Roberto Bolaño
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Poems by Dora Malech
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A Memoir by Bill Clegg
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by Nick Flynn
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By Jay Ryan
Meet Me at the Happy Bar
Poetry Steve Langan
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Drama by Anton Piatiagorsky
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Poetry by Joshua Beckman

Reviews from Print Issues


How Phenomena Appear to Unfold
A work of phenomenological literary criticism by Leslie Scalapino

Entrance to a colonial pageant in which we all begin to intricate
An experimental work of poetry / theater by Johannes Göransson

Thrasher Fanzine
An anthology edited by Sam Korman and Israel Lund

Contemporary Music: Theoretical and Philosophical Perspectives
A collection of essays edited by Irène Deliège and Max Paddison

Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art
A work of sound theory by Salomé Voegelin

The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop
A Work of Music Criticism by Dan Charnas

The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop—and Why It
Matters
A Work of Music Criticism by Tricia Rose

The Bars of Atlantis: Selected Essays
A Collection of Essays by Durs Grünbein

Meddle English
New and Selected Texts by Caroline Bergvall
Dear Apocalypse
A collection of poems by K. A. Hayes

The Smaller Half
A collection of poems by Marc Rahe
Demons in the Spring
A collection of short stories by Joe Meno
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A collection of poems by Henri Cole
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A collection of miniature prose pieces by Robert Walser
Ryder
A novel by Djuna Barnes
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By Roberto Bolaño
width= A New Literary History of America
Essays edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors
width= Everything Flows
A novel by Vasily Grossman
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Poems by Mahmoud Darwish
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Artist Book by Ellie Ga
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Poetry by Patty Seyburn
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short fiction by Jean Thompson
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short fiction by Damion Searls
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poetry by Arda Collins
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Adorno’s Noise
Essays by Carla Harryman

Unincorporated Territory [Hacha]
Poetry by Craig Santos Perez
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A book by Olivier Rolin
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The Unfortunates
By B.S. Johnson
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A book by Carl Smith
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A book by Thomas Brothers
Carpentaria
Fiction by Alexis Wright
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A book by Paco Ignacio Taibo II & Subcomandante Marcos

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