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June 30th, 2023
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June 23rd, 2023
On This Week's Front Table, we dive into Sinead O'Connor's cultural impact, explore the meaning of embracing our suffering through a philosophical lens, delve into the roots of the black working class, and experience a genre-defying writer Sheila Heiti's fictional first draft of the world'...
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June 16th, 2023
Explore captivating topics on this week's Front Table, from culture and invisibility in science fiction and reality, to Jack Whitten's abstract art, the philosophy of care, and celebrating bisexuality. Browse semcoop.com to learn more.
Culture
(Yale University Press)
Terry Eagleton
In this keenly analytical and acerbically funny book, Eagleton explores how culture and our conceptualizations of it have evolved over the last two centuries--from rarified sphere to humble practices, and from a bulwark against industrialism's encroaches to present...
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June 9th, 2023
On This Week's Front Table, we are introduced to practical and imaginative resources on how to create a more liberated world through reparations and mutual aid, to essays exploring the wildness of nature and animals, to gripping short story collections from new cutting edge voices in Latin American literature. Browse these and more at semcoop.com.
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June 2nd, 2023
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
(Yale University...
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May 26th, 2023
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.
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May 19th, 2023
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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May 12th, 2023
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.
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May 5th, 2023
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.
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April 28th, 2023
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...
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