On this week’s Front Table, unveil the hidden infrastructure of rocks that keep the planet functioning and reflect on what can be heard when listening across vast distances; go back to the root of England's monarchy and political conflict in France; witness the quiet madness of academia in the modern world and in hell; and explore the intersections of racism, identity, and Catholicism. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
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On this week’s Front Table, walk the winding relational threads of one of the greatest thinkers of last century; witness the cycles of agency and violence turn with new critical theory and an oral history of the atom bomb; unravel your choice of two tales of a sudden odyssey (the options are unsettling or comic); and go back to the root of humanity with a vast history of Mesopotamia and to our hopes of a cure-all for what ails us.
Baldwin: A Love Story
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Nicholas Boggs
Baldwin: A Love Story tells the overlapping stories of Baldwin's most sustaining intimate and artistic relationships....
On this week’s Front Table, take an exacting look at gentrification and the lives devastated in the process, and debunk the myth surrounding AI's military potential. Explore how love and betrayal can coexist, and consider the ripple effects of familial legacies over generations. Lastly, enjoy an absurdist romp in search of a stolen snuffbox, and reflect on a journey through time guided by economics, culture, and spirituality. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
On this week’s Front Table, challenge everyday decisions and systemic pressures on both individual and institutional levels to expose the hidden forces of injustice, moral debate, and ideological suppression in the modern age. Then, follow voyages of remembrance that retrace the fading footsteps of both historical and fictional figures as they uncover new worlds–both around and within. Finally, witness the fallout of war, art, and memory as it haunts the fractured families and fading ideals they leave behind. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com....
On this week’s Front Table, reconsider fields in a new light: a multidisciplinary approach to shade reveals its critical part in protecting health and an esteemed Black classicist argues against immortalizing ancient Greek and Roman authors as “classical,” tracing new methods for countering dominant practices. Next, uncover exhaustive accounts of injustice: a new narrative detailing the Houston Incident and an exploration of residential schools. Finally, absorb a romance entangled in radical politics, delve into a riveting portrait of five youths in Rocinha, and witness a wholly original depiction of an undergraduate’s attempt to finish her essay. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
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On this week’s Front Table, examine transnational movements for justice: from young activists in Asia to Argentine grandmothers searching for stolen children, and even the calculated racial engineering of Southern American cities. Next, explore how bodies, gender, and queer desire are expressed in the face of shame, grief, and hope. Finally, live the surreal realities of Brazilian-American immigrant life haunted by ambition, fear, longing, and ghosts of the living. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
The Milk Tea Alliance
(Columbia Global Reports)
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Every Living Thing : The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life...
On this week’s Front Table, revisit a 1970s New York band that defined experimental rock, explore masculinity’s unraveling through the roles of Michael Douglas in Hollywood, and see shame reimagined as a tool for change. The, witness America through the lens of photography, hear a chorus of voices from a fractured Irish town, and follow a queer writer’s coming-of-age in 1960s Finland. Finally, meet a professional weeper in a world starved of feeling, until a stranger with no past changes everything, and everyone. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
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