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  • Weather Report – Black Market
    Weather Report – Black Market
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    The shifts in Weather Report’s personnel come fast and furious now, with Narada Michael Walden and Chester Thompson as the drummers, Alex Acuna and Don Alias at the percussion table, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Miles Davis & Robert Glasper – Everything’s Beautiful
    Miles Davis & Robert Glasper – Everything’s Beautiful
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    Everything’s Beautiful isn’t quite a tribute or a remix project. It’s not a collaboration between Miles Davis and Robert Glasper, as it is billed. On the surface, from a [...]

    GENRE: Hip Hop / Rap / Neo Soul, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Thelonious Monk Quartet – Monk’s Dream
    The Thelonious Monk Quartet – Monk’s Dream
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    Monk’s Dream is the Columbia Records debut release featuring the Thelonious Monk Quartet: Monk (piano), Charlie Rouse (tenor sax), John Ore (bass), and Frankie Dunlop (drums). Jazz scholars [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Jazz Impressions Of Japan
    The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Jazz Impressions Of Japan
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    Thirteen years into their tenure, the Dave Brubeck Quartet was still able to mine the creative vein for new means of expression. Despite the hits and popularity on college campuses, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Herbie Hancock – Sextant
    Herbie Hancock – Sextant
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    When Herbie Hancock left Warner Bros. in 1971 after releasing three musically sound but critically and commercially underappreciated albums — Crossings, Mwandishi, and Fat Albert Rotunda [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out
    The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out
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    Dave Brubeck’s defining masterpiece, Time Out is one of the most rhythmically innovative albums in jazz history, the first to consciously explore time signatures outside of the standard 4/4 [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Further Out: Miro Reflections
    The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Further Out: Miro Reflections
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    Unlike most sequels, Time Further Out is a worthy successor to Time Out. Among the numbers introduced on this impressive set are “It’s a Raggy Waltz” and “Unsquare [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Robin Kenyatta – Until
    Robin Kenyatta – Until
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    Recorded and released after a two-year stint in Europe, Until marks alto saxophonist Robin Kenyatta’s American debut as a leader, after sideman tenures with Sonny Stitt, Bill Dixon, and [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Henri-Pierre Roche – Jules & Jim
    Henri-Pierre Roche – Jules & Jim
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    In free-spirited Paris, Jules and Jim live a carefree bohemian existence. They write in cafés, travel when the mood takes them, and share the women they love without jealousy. But […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Aldous Huxley – The Devils Of Loudun
    Aldous Huxley – The Devils Of Loudun
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    In 1632 an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent’s charismatic priest Urban [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Alfred Jarry – The Supermale
    Alfred Jarry – The Supermale
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    Jarry’s legendary novel is a comical celebration of erotic prowess in the machine age. With the very first word of his famous play Ubu Roi―”Shite!”―Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Claude Simon – The Flanders Road
    Claude Simon – The Flanders Road
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    On a sunny day in May 1940, the French army sent out the cavalry against the invading German army’s panzer tanks. Unsurprisingly, the French were routed. Twenty-six-year-old Claude Simon was […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Bruno Schulz – The Street Of Crocodiles
    Bruno Schulz – The Street Of Crocodiles
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    The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulz’s uncommon boyhood and of the eerie side of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Julio Cortazar – The Winners
    Julio Cortazar – The Winners
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    A widely assorted group of people win as a lottery prize a cruise—destination unknown. Their journey reads like—and is—a superb story of suspense that ranges from the most unconventional of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – In The Land Of The Cyclops
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – In The Land Of The Cyclops
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    In his first essay collection to be published in English, the New York Times bestselling author of the My Struggle series Karl Ove Knausgaard explores art, philosophy, and literature with […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Georges Bataille – Literature And Evil
    Georges Bataille – Literature And Evil
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    ”Literature is not innocent,” Bataille declares in the preface to this unique collection of literary profiles. “It is guilty and should admit itself so.” The word, the flesh, and the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Julio Cortazar – Around The Day In Eighty Worlds
    Julio Cortazar – Around The Day In Eighty Worlds
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    Poems, essays, and anecdotes accompany stories about a man sinking into the ground, an invisible monster, a woman who hates yawns, and miniature jaguars North Point Press, 1986 Hardcover edition. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fernando Arrabal – The Red Virgin
    Fernando Arrabal – The Red Virgin
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    Victimization and betrayal are frequently the themes of this Spanish writer, who saw plenty of both as a youth during his homeland’s Civil War. Based on an actual case study […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean Cocteau – Opium: The Diary Of A Cure
    Jean Cocteau – Opium: The Diary Of A Cure
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    The literary and cinematic legend gives his no-holds-barred account of a dangerous addiction In this classic study Cocteau vividly describes his extraordinary experiences while taking opium, the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Peter Handke – Repetition (1st US Edition)
    Peter Handke – Repetition (1st US Edition)
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    Set in 1960, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke’s Repetition tells of Filib Kobal’s journey from his home in Carinthia to Slovenia on the trail of his missing brother, Gregor.  He […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Albert Camus – Neither Victims Nor Executioners
    Albert Camus – Neither Victims Nor Executioners
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    Neither Victims nor Executioners was a series of essays by Albert Camus that were serialized in Combat, the daily newspaper of the French Resistance, in November 1946. In the essays […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Caro Levi – Christ Stopped at Eboli
    Caro Levi – Christ Stopped at Eboli
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    It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi—a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters—was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Raymond Queneau – Zazie in the Metro
    Raymond Queneau – Zazie in the Metro
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    Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with Gabriel, her female-impersonator uncle. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alberto Moravia – Time Of Desecration
    Alberto Moravia – Time Of Desecration
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    Alberto Moravia’s nightmarish exploration of disaffected youth in fascist Italy. FSG, 1980 Hardcover First US edition. Light discoloration to dustjacket.

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Witold Gombrowicz – Ferdydurke
    Witold Gombrowicz – Ferdydurke
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    In this bitterly funny novel by the renowned Polish author Witold Gombrowicz. a writer finds himself tossed into a chaotic world of schoolboys by a diabolical professor who wishes to […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Anais Nin – Cities of the Interior: v. 2
    Anais Nin – Cities of the Interior: v. 2
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    Ladders to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love, Seduction of the Minotaur. Haunting and hypnotic, these five novels by Anaïs Nin […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • John Hawkes – Travesty
    John Hawkes – Travesty
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    Travesty is John Hawkes’s most extreme vision of eroticism and comic terror. In the south of France, an elegant sports car is speeding through the night, bearing a man, his daughter, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Donald Antrim – The Hundred Brothers (signed)
    Donald Antrim – The Hundred Brothers (signed)
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    There’s Rob, Bob, Tom, Paul, Ralph, and Phil; Siegfried, the sculptor in burning steel; blind Albert and ninety-three-year-old Hiram; Foster, the New Age psychoanalyst; and Maxwell, the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Vladimir Paral – Catapult
    Vladimir Paral – Catapult
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    This twist on the Don Juan story looks at the attractions and difficulties of freedom. In the course of his commute, Jacek Jost is suddenly catapulted out of his daily […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Celine – Fable For Another Time
    Celine – Fable For Another Time
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    Fable for Another Time is one of the most significant and far-reaching literary texts of postwar France. Composed in the tumultuous aftermath of World War II, largely in the Danish […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sam Shepard – Motel Chronicles
    Sam Shepard – Motel Chronicles
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    Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a live legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Claude Simon – Conducting Bodies
    Claude Simon – Conducting Bodies
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    A thoroughly modernist novel, meaning it’s all about the construction of imagery in the mind that’s constantly shifting and evolving. There is no plot in the conventional sense, but [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Robert Walser – Selected stories
    Robert Walser – Selected stories
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    How to place the mysterious Swiss writer Robert Walser, a humble genius who possessed one of the most elusive and surprising sensibilities in modern literature? Walser is many things: a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Denton Welch – Fragments Of A Life Story
    Denton Welch – Fragments Of A Life Story
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    Includes every short story and fragment that Denton Welch, an acclaimed precursor to the Beats & the 90’s autofiction movement, wrote before his sudden passing. Penguin, 1987 Softcover [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Secret Record: Modern Erotic Literature
    The Secret Record: Modern Erotic Literature
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    A survey of erotic literature throughout history. William Morrow, 1976 Hardcover edition. Light discoloration/wear to dustjacket.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Tommaso Landolfi – An Autumn Story
    Tommaso Landolfi – An Autumn Story
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    “Set during WW II, this is the first novel to appear in English by the celebrated Italian author of Words in Commotion and Other Stories. The narrator, an outlaw, takes […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Denton Welch – A Voice Through A Cloud
    Denton Welch – A Voice Through A Cloud
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    One of the most beautifully peceptive novels in the English language, A Voice through a Cloud is a devastating account of vulnerability, gay desire and determination A Voice through a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Adolfo Bioy Casares – Asleep In The Sun
    Adolfo Bioy Casares – Asleep In The Sun
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    Lucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with normal problems with his in-laws (ever-present) and job (he lost it) finds he has a new problem on his […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ernst Junger – Eumeswil
    Ernst Junger – Eumeswil
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    Eumeswil, ostensibly a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel, is effectively a comprehensive synthesis of Ernst Jünger’s mature thought, with a particular focus on new and achievable forms [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ryszard Kapuscinski – The Shadow Of The Sun
    Ryszard Kapuscinski – The Shadow Of The Sun
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    In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland’s state newspaper. From the early days […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Paul Verlaine – The Cursed Poets
    Paul Verlaine – The Cursed Poets
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    Assembled from articles published in French journals, the full version of The Cursed Poets (Les Poètes maudits) was published in 1888. Arthur Rimbaud, the boy with whom Paul Verlaine had […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Hala Alyan – The Arsonists’ City
    Hala Alyan – The Arsonists’ City
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    The Nasr family is spread across the globe—Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of migration. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Joy Williams – The Quick And The Dead
    Joy Williams – The Quick And The Dead
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    Alice, Corvus, and Annabel, each a motherless child, are an unlikely circle of friends. One filled with convictions, another with loss, the third with a worldly pragmatism, they traverse an […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ismail Kadare – The Successor
    Ismail Kadare – The Successor
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    A fictionalized political tale based on true-life events and the author’s conversations with the victim’s son follows the events surrounding the death of Mehmet Shehu, a hand-picked [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jens Peter Jacobsen – Niels Lyhne
    Jens Peter Jacobsen – Niels Lyhne
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    Niels Lyhne is an aspiring poet, torn between romanticism and realism, faith and reason. Through his relationships with six women—including his young widowed aunt, a seductive free spirit, and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Victor Serge – Last Times
    Victor Serge – Last Times
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    Last Times, Victor Serge’s epic novel of the fall of France, is based—like much of his fiction—on firsthand experience. The author was an eyewitness to the last days of Paris […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Curzio Malaparte – Diary Of A Foreigner In Paris
    Curzio Malaparte – Diary Of A Foreigner In Paris
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    In 1947 Curzio Malaparte returned to Paris for the first time in fourteen years. In between, he had been condemned by Mussolini to five years in exile and, on release, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jean Genet: Alberto Giacometti (german text)
    Jean Genet: Alberto Giacometti (german text)
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    Jean Genet’s essay on Giacometti paired with photos of his work and studio. TEXT ENTIRELY IN GERMAN Scheidegger & Spiess, 2004 Hardcover edition. Light general wear. TEXT ENTIRELY IN GERMAN

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • 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: Non-Fiction
  • Jean Cocteau – The White Book
    Jean Cocteau – The White Book
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    Le Livre Blanc, a “white paper” on homosexual love, was first published anonymously in France by Cocteau’s contemporary Maurice Sachs, and was at once decried as by the critics [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Structure Of Magic II
    The Structure Of Magic II
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    These seminal works in neurolinguistic programming (NLP) help therapists understand how people create inner models of the world to represent their experience and guide their behavior. Volume I [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ismail Kadare – Doruntine
    Ismail Kadare – Doruntine
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    Doruntine or Who brought Dorontine is a novel by Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. It is based on the old Albanian legend of Constantin and Doruntine Book is in “Like New” […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Heinrich Von Kleist – Michael Kohlhaas
    Heinrich Von Kleist – Michael Kohlhaas
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    Michael Kohlhaas has been wronged. First his finest horses were unfairly confiscated and mistreated. And things keep going worse—his servants have been beaten, his wife killed, and the lawsuits [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Roland Barthes – Incidents
    Roland Barthes – Incidents
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    French philosopher and literary theorist Roland Barthes was one of the leading influences on the post-structuralist movement in twentieth-century literary thought, and some of his best-known [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jenny Erpenbeck – Not A Novel
    Jenny Erpenbeck – Not A Novel
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    Jenny Erpenbeck’s highly acclaimed novel Go, Went, Gone was a New York Times notable book and launched one of Germany’s most admired writers into the American spotlight. In the New […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jean Genet – The Criminal Child
    Jean Genet – The Criminal Child
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    The Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate about improving the French reform-school […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky – Memories Of The Future
    Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky – Memories Of The Future
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    Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s—but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher—the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s boundless imagination, black [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Vladimir Nabokov – Despair
    Vladimir Nabokov – Despair
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    Despair’s protagonist, Hermann, is another masterly portrait in the fascinating gallery of living characters Vladmir Nabokov has given to world literature. In his pseudo wordliness, his odd [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Varlam Shalamov – Sketches Of The Criminal World
    Varlam Shalamov – Sketches Of The Criminal World
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    In 1936, Varlam Shalamov, a journalist and writer, was arrested for counterrevolutionary activities and sent to the Soviet Gulag. He survived fifteen years in the prison camps and returned from [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ken Schles – Night Walk
    Ken Schles – Night Walk
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    Twenty-five years after the printing of his seminal 1988 book, Invisible City, Ken Schles revisits his archive and fashions a narrative of lost youth: a delirious, peripatetic walk in the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography