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'The Third Body'
'The Third Body'

Bog | Engelsk

In ""The Third Body"", the poet, novelist, feminist critic, and theorist Helene Cixous interweaves a loose narrative line with anecdotes, autobiography, lyricism, myth, dream, fantasy, philosophical insights, and intertextual citations

'Traveling on One Leg'
'Traveling on One Leg'

Bog | Engelsk

Irene is a fragile woman born to a German family in Romania, who has recently emigrated from her native country to West Germany. Politically and socially isolated, Irene moves within the orbit of three troubled men, while simultaneously embarking on an in

You Know Nothing
You Know Nothing

Fiction |

Questioning the roles of women's bodies and the emotions that drive them in Madden's debut story collection Following women and girls as they navigate everyday life in contemporary America, You Know Nothing explores the experiences of mothers, d

Slut Lullabies
Slut Lullabies

Fiction |

The collection that cemented Frangello’s reputation as a writer on the power dynamics of sexuality, gender, and the body Through beauty, horror, humor, and chaos, Gina Frangello’s electric stories mine the human experience. A gay Latino man whose piou

My Sister's Continent
My Sister's Continent

Fiction |

A new edition of Frangello’s explosive retelling of Freud’s infamous “Dora” case study Kirby is a young woman attempting to come to terms with a failed bout of therapy and the truth about her identical twin, Kendra. Since girlhood, Kirby both idol

'The Retrieval of the Beautiful'
'The Retrieval of the Beautiful'

Bog | Engelsk

In this elegant new study, Galen Johnson retrieves the concept of the beautiful through the framework of Merleau-Ponty's aesthetics. Although Merleau-Ponty seldom spoke directly of beauty, his philosophy is essentially about the beautiful. In Johnson&

It's Important I Remember
It's Important I Remember

Engelsk non fiction div. |

An incantation of strength and solace for persisting in twenty-first-century America “History doesn’t repeat, it rhymes.” In his sweeping third collection, Charleston brings a poet’s ear for echo and rhythm to bear on American history and life aft

The Wanderer
The Wanderer

Fiction |

The first English-language translation of an eccentric, unclassifiable classic An unnamed narrator embarks on a rambling journey across the diverse borderlands of the Russian and Ottoman Empires - all without leaving his divan. Drawing on his own experien

Evocations of Italy
Evocations of Italy

Art |

A collector’s edition of a world-historical classic In 1907, Pavel Muratov, a budding littà ‰rateur and art connoisseur from Moscow, set off for Italy with his wife, three friends, and a dozen books on the Italian Renaissance. This journey, the first