On This Week's Front Table, connect with the lives of three artistic giants through their writings, photographs, and letters; explore new histories of ourselves and our planet; and breathe the free air of inspired poetry. Browse these and more at semcoop.com.
Always Reaching: The Selected Writings of Anne Truitt
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On This Week's Front Table, love, sex, and death. Also, math. From the autobiography of a legend to a study of the seven days that rule our lives, find what you weren't looking for in this week's selections. Browse these and more at semcoop.com.
On This Week's Front Table, we encounter narratives about the histories of artists and philosophers, to the the narrative of disease - whether that's the disease of racial inequalities in regards to the exploitative nature of the fast food industry, to the effects of AIDS on the body and the effect of ignoring the impact of AIDS on the queer community to how our society has been shaped by eight major pandemics and diseases over the past sixty thousand years. Find this and more at semcoop.com.
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On This Week's Front Table, slice through the Gordian knot of how we feel when the art we love is made by people we hate; attend to marginalized voices, from Jewish anarchists to Black grandmothers; and discover a clutch of acclaimed fiction, from a stunning debut to mesmerizing literature in translation. Browse these titles and more at semcoop.com.
On This Week's Front Table, we ask the question of what it means to connect, to feel, and ultimately to change - whether it's through how language can connect us and divide us, how our current work system is designed to fail and what is needed instead, how art and music consistently influence each other, and what it means to feel as a Black woman and as an artist. Find this and more at semcoop.com.
On This Week's Front Table, explore what it means pay attention- pay attention to what history chooses to glorify, to stories so short we call them "flash," to the fascinating history of a book's index, to how a heartbreak can unravel us, and to our beloved writers and what they mean to us. Find this and more at semcoop.com...
On This Week's Front Table, find dark histories and shady presents illuminated, from an in-depth examination of weaponized surveillance operations shrouded in secrecy to a close look at slavery’s end to better understand why its shadow still haunts us today. Find the following and more at semcoop.com
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On This Week's Front Table, explores our relationship to history, from examinations of what it means to be 'the ideal woman' in medieval times to the history of surgery and changes to medicine to how the entire decade of the nineties informs our culture today to our own personal histories in the first year of the pandemic to one mans everyday musings in the life of a bookshop owner. Find the following and more at semcoop.com
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On this week's Front Table explores unraveling in different forms - from the unraveling of our political systems to the unraveling of our relationship to art and history, to the unraveling and estrangement of the self through a story of a man asking what it means to live and die on his deathbed, to a woman who leaves everything behind to live by the sea, to a man's obsession with found objects including holding onto...
On this week's Front Table, re-examines our relationship to history, the natural world, and our larger universe from a translation of the early gospels to one woman's complicated relationship to the South and our glorification of war after World War II, to explorations of black holes, our dangerous overreliance on phosphorous and its consequences, to the scientists who are responsible for inventions such as the microwave, TV, and the smartphone. Find the following and more at semcoop.com
Looking for the Good War
(Picador USA)
Elizabeth D....