Front Table

On this week’s Front Table, explore the frenzy and dissipation of political energy after the end of history, theorize a motion in physics that counters the laws of decay, and experience an old form revitalized in a groundbreaking poet's elegy for her mother. Then, un-repress the history and culture of the unconscious, slip into a surreal debut novel of imprisonment and displacement, close-read feminized poets for capitalist critique, and encounter the poverty and poetry of remote Poland. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.

Hyperpolitics
(Verso)
Anton Jäger

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On this week’s Front Table, explore the complex experience of the black prodigy and find out Akira Kurosawa's 100 favorite films. Then, follow a journalist's fraught journey into contemporary Russia, sink into the dog days of an Estonian summer, and find dark comedy and unexpected revelation in a short story collection. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.

The People Can Fly: The Promise and Perils of Giftedness
(Little Brown and Company)
Joshua Bennett

What does promise cost in America? Especially when that promise is seen as grounds to separate us from the communities we cherish, and framed...

On this week’s Front Table, explore the moral philosophy of procreation, read a lyrical memoir of unresolvable loss, and become immersed in a sweeping novel of contemporary Pakistan. Trace the history and revelations of seismic events, peruse four tales of evasion and mystery, explore the place of the deep in African American literature, and read a book-length poem divided into the grueling hours of a night shift on a factory floor. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.

Begetting: What Does It Mean to Create a Child?...

On this week’s Front Table, travel Midwestern places shaped by memory and literature, follow a Korean teen with alexithymia as violence and friendship reshape his world, and confront hunger through a call for solidarity beyond food banks. Explore a Minnesota murder as a lens on class and unchosen lives, trace how rent and unearned income birthed modern capitalism, witness the brutal truths of French colonialism in Algeria, and uncover the gendered history of defamation law and women’s resistance. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.

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