Front Table
November 25th, 2024
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November 18th, 2024
On this week’s Front Table, dive into the poetic clash of heritage and myth in Jamaica, explore the urgent fight to save endangered bears worldwide, and immerse yourself in the raw energy of 1970s Tokyo’s underground club scene. Then, uncover the complex journey of a Palestinian born in 1948 Israel, experience a genre-defying work that blends mysticism and Black poetics, and explore the resilience of revolutionary regimes. Finally, explore the misunderstood choices of artistic women who left their children through historical, literary, and contemporary lenses. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
Far District: Poems
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November 11th, 2024
On this week’s Front Table, appreciate the world's most familiar bird, follow the threads of ancient human civilization, and then deep dive into the last great rock band of the millennium. Meditate on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history, and enjoy a heartwarming tale of visitors who wish to go back into their past to move on their present, finding closure and comfort so they can embark on a beautiful future. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
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November 4th, 2024
On this week’s Front Table, follow the threads of our human story with the natural world and the complex human stories behind artistic brilliance. Age to age, empire to empire, read about the endurance of government systems shaped through violence — and the furious healing work those who survive that violence take up. From poetry at the origins of this nation to a riotously colorful unspooling of the mind — find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
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October 27th, 2024
My Dead Book
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Nate Lippens
Haunted by insomnia and the past as he approaches his fiftieth birthday, the narrator of My Dead...
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October 20th, 2024
Historical Gloss and Foreign...
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October 13th, 2024
On This Week's Front Table, examine how the arts and sciences have always danced together; then explore reflections on the absurdities and abjection of being a poet who is also an office worker. Deepen how you think about the legacies of war, the presence of the past, and the renewed promise of art for our lives today; and consider John Lewis, a man whose heroism during the Civil Rights movement helped to bring America a new birth of freedom. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
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October 6th, 2024
On This Week's Front Table, examine a new collection that unforgettably describes a spiritual and physical journey; then critique the nature of knowledge and judgment. Consider what it means to truly express oneself through art; and then explore how one of America's most powerful and misunderstood electorates may come to define the future of American politics. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
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September 30th, 2024
On This Week's Front Table, consider what it means to recover our humanity and come back to the real world; then examine the non-European origins of what we consider to be “Western” thought and endeavors to recover forgotten forms of social and political order that gesture toward new, hopeful possibilities for the future. Immerse yourself in a true story of ordinary men and women under immense pressure; and then get lost in fiction that asks us what a sudden visitor can be: a mooch, a lover, an absence, a presence—possibly a pet? Find these titles and more at ...
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September 20th, 2024
On This Week's Front Table, throw yourself into a sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value--art, memory, poetry, music, care--are thrown into sharp relief; then examine a brilliant exploration of freedom--what it is, how it's been misunderstood, and why it's our only chance for survival, followed by a warm-spirited elegy to an abandoned work. Ponder how mourning can help us thrive, the role of moral exemplars in shaping our sense of the good, and the place of gratitude in human life; and then consider a scorching new fiction illuminating an argument between a father and his daughter that examines the fraught...
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