On this week's front table, reconsider the invasive species, go inside Russia's war for global order, and read the final novel of a Brazilian master. Then, sample the visceral short work of a pioneering Surrealist and lose your place in a novel of a woman experiencing false memories. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
Undesirable: Invasive Species, Humans, and Where We All Belong...
On this week's front table, explore the racial inequities embedded in Chicago's public transportation, encounter a woman who was wife and mother to Roman emperors, and fall into the dreams of one of Latin America's greatest, strangest authors. Then, explore new pathways to inclusivity and cultural power in art, read an archipelago-set alternate history of the Troubles, remember nature in order to preserve it, and explore a time- and form-spanning selection of poetry that becomes a hybrid autobiography. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
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On this week's front table, heed a call to action to redesign the world for women, learn how a craft store chain has shaped the United States in its own image, and join a schoolgirl and a detective in Romania under Ceaușescu. Then, follow a history of mob violence in America, immerse yourself in an acclaimed debut about a complex friendship, read a groundbreaking biography of a revolutionary, and sample an ars poetica that draws from nineteenth century correspondence. Find these titles and more at ...
On this week's front table, reckon with the place of statues in a postcolonial present, trace the genealogy of the conspiracy, and embark on an experiment in shared consciousness. Then, join a therapist embedded in the decline of Appalachia, read the posthumous masterpiece of a neglected American writer, explore the life and afterlife of Margaret of Anjou, and try a new novel of suburban malaise (with tennis). Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
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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, 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....