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  • Islamic Mystical Poetry
    Islamic Mystical Poetry
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    Written from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Maggot Brain #12
    Maggot Brain #12
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    Crazy Doberman ? Erick’s Bradshaw delivers an epic, well-illustrated tour diary of a brief jaunt with these noise greats. Composer TAYONDAI BRAXTON by Katy Henricksen! A meaty, beautiful [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ahmad Shamlou – Born Upon the Dark Spear
    Ahmad Shamlou – Born Upon the Dark Spear
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    Chasm. Mist. Dark Song. Hour of Execution. Behind the Wall. These are just some of the poetic titles of Ahmad Shamlu (1925-2000) that together form the cipher to one of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Giovanni Intra – Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002
    Giovanni Intra – Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002
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    Artist, gallerist, and writer Giovanni Intra’s inventive approach to art writing provides a guide to the New Zealand and Los Angeles art scenes of his era. Everything you read about […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • William Cooper – Behold a Pale Horse (Revised)
    William Cooper – Behold a Pale Horse (Revised)
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    Bill Cooper, former United States Naval Intelligence Briefing Team member, reveals information that remains hidden from the public eye. This information has been kept in topsecret government [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts
    Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts
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    In the age of global capitalism, vaporwave celebrates and undermines the electronic ghosts haunting the nostalgia industry. Ours is a time of ghosts in machines, killing meaning and exposing the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Anselm Hollo – The Tortoise of History
    Anselm Hollo – The Tortoise of History
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    Anselm Hollo (1934–2013) authored more than forty books and was an award-winning translator. Born in Helsinki, Finland, he was fluent in German, Swedish, Finnish, and English by age ten. Hollo [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Robert Desnos – The Die Is Cast
    Robert Desnos – The Die Is Cast
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    A startlingly contemporary portrait of drug addiction in prewar Paris Published in 1943 (just a year before its author was arrested by the Gestapo for his Resistance activities), The Die […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
    The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
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    Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Try to Tell a Fish about Water: The Art, Music, and Third Life of Norma Tenega
    Try to Tell a Fish about Water: The Art, Music, and Third Life of Norma Tenega
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    In addition to her accomplishments as a gifted musician and songwriter, Norma Tanega was a noted gallerist, teacher, and a central figure in the vibrant and homegrown creative scene of […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Gabrielle Wittkop – Murder Most Serene
    Gabrielle Wittkop – Murder Most Serene
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    In the last days of the Venetian Republic, the successive wives of Count Alvise Lanzi suffer mysterious, agonizing deaths. Murder Most Serene offers a cruel portrait of a beautiful but […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Joseph Cornell – Dreams
    Joseph Cornell – Dreams
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    A selection of dream epiphanies and reveries from Joseph Cornell’s voluminous diaries Joseph Cornell is well known for the oneiric quality of his art and films. Many have tried, often […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Benjamin Myers – The Gallows Pole
    Benjamin Myers – The Gallows Pole
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    Set in the moorland hills of 18th century Yorkshire, The Gallows Pole is the true story of an organized crime of forgers known as the Cragg Vale Coiners. Lead by […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • George Melly – Don’t Tell Sybil: A Libidinous Memoir of the Unusual Impresario of English Surrealism
    George Melly – Don’t Tell Sybil: A Libidinous Memoir of the Unusual Impresario of English Surrealism
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    Don’t Tell Sybil is a libidinous memoir by a master raconteur. George Melly (1926-2007) was impossible to ignore in London cultural circles between the 1950s and 90s. He first came […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Gerard De Nerval – Aurelia & Other Writings
    Gerard De Nerval – Aurelia & Other Writings
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    A harrowing document of a descent into madness, by France’s defining poet of bohemian romanticism Aurelia is French poet and novelist Gérard de Nerval’s account of his descent into [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roch?, Beatrice Wood
    Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roch?, Beatrice Wood
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    Three New York Dadas and The Blind Man relates the story of the triangular relationship between Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood, told in the words of two of […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Ibn Khald?n – The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
    Ibn Khald?n – The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
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    The Muqaddimah, often translated as “Introduction” or “Prolegomenon,” is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Martin Bax – The Hospital Ship
    Martin Bax – The Hospital Ship
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    Originally published in 1976, Martin Bax’s seminal cult novel is back in print after three decades. From harbours around the world, the hospital ship picks up casualties, emergency cases of [...]

    GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival – Boxset & Book
    The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival – Boxset & Book
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    What our staff has to say: “Almost 5 hours of recordings from the 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival on 4 cassettes and including a lovely 240 page book documenting […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Joseph Kessel – Army Of Shadows
    Joseph Kessel – Army Of Shadows
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    Originally published in Algiers in 1943, Joseph Kessel’s Army of Shadows is one of the first books to have been written about the French Resistance. Now available in paperback, Contra […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Holy Ghost: The Life and Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler
    Holy Ghost: The Life and Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler
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    Holy Ghost is the first extended study of free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who is seen today as one of the most important innovators in the history of jazz. Ayler […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions
    Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions
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    Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions examines the variety of concerns and practices that have comprised the long history of avant-garde film at a level appropriate for undergraduate [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Drama/Arthouse
  • Herta Muller – Nadirs
    Herta Muller – Nadirs
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    Juxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, Nadirs is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta Müller’s childhood in the Romanian countryside. The [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Wire – #463 September 2022
    The Wire – #463 September 2022
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    On the cover… Neu! + 50 Years Of Motorik A special cover feature on the motorik rock originators Neu! to mark half a century since their game-changing debut album. This […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Horace McCoy – They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
    Horace McCoy – They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
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    During the Depression, Gloria and Robert enter a dance marathon in return for three square meals a day and a chance at winning the big-money prize. Under the intense scrutiny […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Intermedia, Fluxus and the Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins
    Intermedia, Fluxus and the Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins
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    What our staff has to say: “Fun book on one of the centers of the Fluxus movement. At the very least the one who helped create a written documentation of […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Greil Marcus – Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Anniversary)
    Greil Marcus – Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Anniversary)
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    Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk, Punk / Hardcore
  • Herve Guibert – Ghost Image
    Herve Guibert – Ghost Image
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    Ghost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays―meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems―and not a single image. Hervé Guibert’s brief, literary rumination on [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir
  • Eileen Ormsby – The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives . . . the Inside Story of the Internet’s Evil Twin
    Eileen Ormsby – The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives . . . the Inside Story of the Internet’s Evil Twin
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    Dark… A kingpin willing to murder to protect his dark web drug empire. A corrupt government official determined to avoid exposure. The death of a dark web drugs czar in […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, True Crime
  • Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – Roadside Picnic
    Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – Roadside Picnic
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    Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that […]

    GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Walter Tevis – The Man Who Fell To Earth
    Walter Tevis – The Man Who Fell To Earth
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    A man wanders into town one day seemingly out of nowhere. He starts by peddling valuables just to get by. But he possesses uncanny scientific knowledge, which he uses to […]

    GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • The Wire  – #460 June 2022
    The Wire – #460 June 2022
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    “On the cover: Phew. The Japanese punk survivor and intrepid vocalist/composer continues to build an impressive catalogue of collaborations, solo projects and band work in a career now [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Maggot Brain – Issue #9
    Maggot Brain – Issue #9
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    WELCOME TO MAGGOT BRAIN #9 – RAYMOND PETTIBON ON THE COVER! RAYMOND PETTIBON: IN CONVERSATION WITH ADAM WOODHEAD JOHN BRANNON: NEGATIVE APPROACH HONCHO UNLOADS JOHN WATERS: THE RETURN OF THE […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Indie / Alternative
  • Harry Sword – Monolithic Undertow
    Harry Sword – Monolithic Undertow
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    Monolithic Undertow alights a crooked path across musical, religious and subcultural frontiers. It traces the line from ancient traditions to the modern underground, navigating archaeoacoustics, [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Metal
  • Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation
    Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation
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    This is the first cultural history of the world’s most common sexual practice: masturbation. At a time when almost any victimless practice has its public advocates and almost every sexual […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette
    The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette
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    The Wicked Queen is not a biography of one of the most infamous queens in history. Rather, Chantal Thomas presents the history of the verbal and visual representations of Marie-Antoinette, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Wire – #459 May 2022
    The Wire – #459 May 2022
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    “On the cover: Reynols. As one of the most singular groups in all of rock release their first western album in two decades, following drummer Miguel Tomasin’s Henry Viscardi Award [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Joanna Russ – How To Suppress Women’s Writing
    Joanna Russ – How To Suppress Women’s Writing
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    Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle–and not so [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • William T Vollmann – Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means
    William T Vollmann – Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means
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    Twenty-three years in the making, Rising Up and Rising Down (the original, published by McSweeney’s in October 2003, spans seven volumes) is a rich amalgam of historical analysis, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Harmony Korine – A Crackup At The Race Riots
    Harmony Korine – A Crackup At The Race Riots
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    Originally published by Mainstreet/Doubleday in 1998, this debut novel from an underground filmmaker uses print, photographs, drawings, news clippings, handwriting, a poem, attempted diagrams, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • A Bernadette Mayer Reader
    A Bernadette Mayer Reader
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    “She writes as if Everything were still possible in the work of a lifetime at the coincidence of all the turvy moments. Better that she’s read without a thought to […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Barry Gifford – Sailor & Lula: Expanded Edition
    Barry Gifford – Sailor & Lula: Expanded Edition
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    “The Romeo and Juliet of the South” are back in this new edition of the internationally best-selling Sailor and Lula novels, now including for the first time the culminating novel, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Larry Clark – Tulsa
    Larry Clark – Tulsa
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    What our staff has to say: “The only time glamorizing self annihilation as art has worked.” – Cleo When it first appeared in 1971, Larry Clark’s groundbreaking book Tulsa [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Claudio Lomnitz – Death And The Idea Of Mexico
    Claudio Lomnitz – Death And The Idea Of Mexico
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    Death and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Carol J. Clover – Men, Women & Chainsaws
    Carol J. Clover – Men, Women & Chainsaws
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    Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. Carol Clover argues, however, that these […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fangoria Vol 2 #14 (January 2022)
    Fangoria Vol 2 #14 (January 2022)
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    2022 is upon us! FANGORIA #14 rings in the new year with the one you’ve been waiting for… and one you’ll have to wait a little longer for. Here’s what […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Horror Fiction
  • Ruby Ray: Kalifornia Kool: Photographs 1976-1982
    Ruby Ray: Kalifornia Kool: Photographs 1976-1982
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    Punk and industrial culture in late ’70s and early ’80s San Francisco Spanning music, art and literature, the industrial and punk scenes of San Francisco in the late 1970s and […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • On Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures: (And Other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc)
    On Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures: (And Other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc)
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    Reviled, rioted over and banned as pornographic even as it was recognized by many as an unprecedented visionary masterpiece, Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures is one of the most important and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Constance DeJong – Modern Love
    Constance DeJong – Modern Love
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    What our staff has to say: “An essential reissue of this autofiction classic.” – Cleo “People used to tell me, if you keep on writing maybe you’ll make a name […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Dream Dance: The Art Of Ed Emshwiller
    Dream Dance: The Art Of Ed Emshwiller
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    Dream Dance: The Art of Ed Emshwiller is a catalog released in conjunction with the artist’s first major monographic exhibition at Lightbox Film Center and the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery in [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Phillip K Dick – Vintage PKD
    Phillip K Dick – Vintage PKD
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    A master of science fiction, a voice of the changing counterculture, and a genuine visionary, Philip K. Dick now joins the elite ranks of authors included in the Vintage Readers […]

    GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Paul Nouge – The Subversion Of Images
    Paul Nouge – The Subversion Of Images
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    This classic surrealist photobook pioneered the imagery of the domestic uncanny First edited and published by Marcel Marien in 1968 in a limited edition of 230 copies, half a year […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • N.H Pritchard – Echoes
    N.H Pritchard – Echoes
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    An exacting facsimile of Umbra protagonist Norman H. Pritchard’s long-rare 1971 collection of visually kinetic poetry American poet Norman H. Pritchard’s second and final book, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • J.G Ballard – The Atrocity Exhibition
    J.G Ballard – The Atrocity Exhibition
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    When the ATROCITY EXHIBITION was originally printed (1970), Nelson Doubleday saw a copy and was so horrified he ordered the entire press run shredded. Two years later Grove Press brought […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • James Purdy – In A Shallow Grave
    James Purdy – In A Shallow Grave
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    What our staff has to say: “James Purdy is one of the most underrated american writers of the last 100 years. His writing is grotesque, funny and heartbreaking, often in […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Wire: #454 December 2021
    The Wire: #454 December 2021
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    “Laraaji: New York’s mystic sage of healing vibrations talks the power of sound and new album Circle Of Celebration with collaborators Arji OceAnanda, Greg Fox and Shahzad Ismaily. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Discreet Music Mag #2
    Discreet Music Mag #2
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    Second issue of Discreet Music Mag, featuring interviews with Greymouth and Jon Collin and a long piece on IDDB 001-044. Full colour, written in English. Discreet Music, 2021

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Ryann Donnelly – Justify My Love
    Ryann Donnelly – Justify My Love
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    An analysis of sex and gender in music videos, covering everyone from Beyonce to Madonna, Nine Inch Nails to Mykki Blanco. In Justify My Love, Ryann Donnelly explores sex and […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Joan Lindsay – Picnic at Hanging Rock
    Joan Lindsay – Picnic at Hanging Rock
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    A 50th-anniversary edition of the haunting novel about the disappearance of three boarding school girls that inspired the acclaimed film It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. […]

    GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Ralph Rugoff – Circus Americanus
    Ralph Rugoff – Circus Americanus
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    “A carnival of New World wonders.”—Jon Savage Circus Americanus is a riotous excursion through America’s changing visual landscape. Exploring its remote corners and bizarre byways, Ralph Rugoff [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography