Front Table

On This Week's Front Table, watch the matchstick efforts throughout two-thousand years of human history flicker and flare with the hope of building the good life; observe the spaces in pop culture and protest for reimagination of Indigenous personhood through new poetry and the machines that illuminate or break human spirits – from electronic pop music to the local carceral state. See through time towards the endless possibilities of the world Kafka and Einstein shared in early twentieth-century Prague, and reflect on new and classic fiction about the lives of Upper West Side women. Find these titles and more at ...

On This Week's Front Table, explore the human-animal relationship that has transformed societies and empires for thousands of years; peruse the covers of comics that never were by a master cartoonist; take a new perspective on the works of an old artist and the lives of unacknowledged children; finally, wander the shifting borders between cultures and the line between rage and comedy. Find these titles and more at...

On This Week's Front Table, move between the crafted and the real, beginning with poignant novels dealing with nature, family, violence, marriage and the bewilderment everywhere in everyday life; educate yourself on the future of economic development and the difficulties of centering mental health care into the mainstream of medicine; follow the paths of Black students fighting against imposed miseducation and learn about the dinosaurs that toppled traditional religious authority; finish the journey with a collection of chimeric poetics that blends field recordings, state archives, and ancient texts. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.