Doolittle, Trilogy
As civilian war poetry (written under the shattering impact of World War II), Trilogy’s three long poems rank with T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets and ...
Continue Reading →Douglas, Purity and Danger
Is cleanliness next to godliness? What does such a concept really mean? Why does it recur as a universal theme across all societies? And what ...
Continue Reading →Eshun, More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction
The classic work on the music of Afrofuturism, from jazz to jungle More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction is one of the ...
Continue Reading →Godwin, Athanasius Kircher’s Theatre of the World
A major study of both the written and pictorial work of a neglected genius whose breadth of interest made him the last Renaissance man • ...
Continue Reading →Grabes, Making Strange: Beauty, Sublimity, and the (Post Modern) “Third Aesthetic”
This compact, indispensable overview answers a vexed question: Why do so many works of modern and postmodern literature and art seem designed to appear ‘strange’, ...
Continue Reading →Hooks, Teaching to Transgress
In Teaching to Transgress,bell hooks–writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual–writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to ...
Continue Reading →Lady Mary Wroth, Love’s Victory
Love’s Victory is a Jacobean era pastoral closet drama written circa 1620 by English Renaissance writer Lady Mary Wroth. The play is the first known ...
Continue Reading →Negarestani, Collapse Volume VII Culinary Materialism
Is it possible to maintain that cookery has a philosophical pertinence without merely appending philosophy to our burgeoning gastroculture? How might the everyday sense of ...
Continue Reading →Pesic, Music and the Making of Modern Science
A wide-ranging exploration of how music has influenced science through the ages, from fifteenth-century cosmology to twentieth-century string theory. In the natural science of ancient ...
Continue Reading →Acker, Against Ordinary Language
In her 1993 essay ‘Against Ordinary Language: The Language of the Body’, Kathy Acker muses on her experiences in body-building and why it is so ...
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