On this week's front table, read a vivid account of race relations in Minneapolis, go back to the beginning of the American newspaper, and read the first female Faroese writer to be translated into English. Then, explore the Renaissance men who rejected Renaissance values, find the poetry in Wikipedia, heed a call for solidarity between Black Lives and Palestinian liberation, and rediscover a searing exhibition from Nan Goldin. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
On this week's front table, dive deep into the history of reading to understand our cultural and technological present, step behind the register of the American supermarket, and hear the distinct voice of an imprisoned teenager in Naples. Then, explore a thought-provoking catalogue of a landmark exhibition, read the collected stories of the only writer to make Virginia Woolf jealous, trace a history of the face that is also a history of selfhood and power, and get the latest on bourgeois cruelties and the complications of empowerment from a great French writer. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com...
On this week's front table, see the Age of Revolutions through popular movements in the hemispheric Americas, hear the stories of women imprisoned for protecting themselves against abuse, and read a novel of New Orleans and the tragicomic progress of middle age. Then, follow a political and mythic history of fire, sample a bildungsroman about a young woman amid a secretive family, read about the unlikely comeback of the great beasts of America's early days, and take a lyrical road trip through an unwell culture. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
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On this week's front table, follow of cycles of history and denial in America, ponder the philosophical nature of boredom, and read a novel of grief and curses in Bogota's queer underground. Then, read works from a revolutionary and pioneering political thinker, lose yourself in a novel about losing yourself and its discontents, look into the future of design with the artists of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, and read a poetic novel of sisterhood. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
On this week's front table, read the memoir of a historian who braids her own story with that of Cuba, discover the surprising and contradictory progress of common sense, and follow a celebrated poet's search for her Modernist ancestors. Then, drift into a musical daydream, sample surreal fiction about exile and God, explore the dynamics of marginalized people with institutional power, and read a novel of sex work in the GDR. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
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On this week's front table, find a portrait of the twentieth century in the translations of an elusive writer, learn about the complex history and radical future of reinvestment in Black neighborhoods, and seal yourself into a fable of internationalism. Then, read a biography of the foundational figure of Judaism, sample the short stories of a bold new voice, travel down a highway of dreams and harsh realities, and read a new kind of Western. Find these titles and more at...
On this week's front table, explore obstetrics and feminine resistance during the Roman Empire, gain a radical new understanding of money, and get lost in the haze of a transcendent, menacing festival. Then, go back to the early days of a pioneering theorist, experience a masterwork of Indian poetry, rifle through a notable literary correspondence, and resurface a long-buried river and narrative of class and labor. Find these titles and more at semcoop....
On this week's front table, explore the history of justice in the face of state violence, ask how to embrace life in a time of highly visible despair, and read a complex and collective novel about Japanese internment. Then, visit the would-be utopia of Transcendentalist Concord, read a meta-noir about grief and perception, delve into a history of Rolling Stone magazine, and discover a vibrant new poet of our strange modern day. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
On this week's front table, learn collective tactics for housing justice, gain a cartoonist's eye's view on the history of aesthetics, and read a devastating fictional treatment of a tragedy of complicity. Then, sink into a definitive biography of Chopin, read subtly transgressive poetry of uprising, hear the musical inheritance of Africa in contemporary music, and visit a mysterious city for adulterous lovers. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com...
On this week's front table, explore the gun control debate in Renaissance Italy, get an insider view of a notorious disinformation machine, and read a magical realistic epic of aristocratic Hungary. Then, find a new perspective on James Joyce as a political artist, enjoy poems that inhabit a world of flammable metaphors and spiritual fog machines, and trace the rise of police power in the United States. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.