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....
On this week's Front Table, explore complex narratives through time, from one woman's commentary on culture through gender, literature, and more to a sister's recollection and examination of femicide through the murder of her younger sister to historical sites as a consideration on themes of space and perspective. Find the following and more at semcoop.com
A Left-Handed Woman: Essays
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Judith Thurman
A collection of essays from...
Images of the Present Time
(Columbia University Press)
Alain...
The Limit of the Useful
(MIT Press)
Georges Bataille
In the decade prior to the publication of...
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On this week's Front Table, narrow the divide between happiness & resentment, creativity & madness, and contentment & chaos: from a student noticing a painter's disintegration from her frenetic stories, her scattered art, and her use of white paint on a white canvas to the daughter of midwives escaping into their archives to discover reflections on birth, death and human nature. Find the following and more at semcoop.com
The Age of Goodbyes
(The...