Front Table

On this week’s Front Table, appreciate the world's most familiar bird, follow the threads of ancient human civilization, and then deep dive into the last great rock band of the millennium. Meditate on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history, and enjoy a heartwarming tale of visitors who wish to go back into their past to move on their present, finding closure and comfort so they can embark on a beautiful future. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com. 

What the Chicken...

Haunted by insomnia and the past as he approaches his fiftieth birthday, the narrator of My Dead...

On This Week's Front Table, examine how the arts and sciences have always danced together; then explore reflections on the absurdities and abjection of being a poet who is also an office worker. Deepen how you think about the legacies of war, the presence of the past, and the renewed promise of art for our lives today; and consider John Lewis, a man whose heroism during the Civil Rights movement helped to bring America a new birth of freedom. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.

John Lewis: A Life
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On This Week's Front Table, consider what it means to recover our humanity and come back to the real world; then examine the non-European origins of what we consider to be “Western” thought and endeavors to recover forgotten forms of social and political order that gesture toward new, hopeful possibilities for the future. Immerse yourself in a true story of ordinary men and women under immense pressure; and then get lost in fiction that asks us what a sudden visitor can be: a mooch, a lover, an absence, a presence—possibly a pet? Find these titles and more at ...