On this week's Fiction and Poetry Front Table, find poems that ponder guilt and identity, short stories that revolutionized the genre in India, and haunting histories that are remembered only through news clippings, digital archives and far into the minds of the children programmed to forget them. Find the following and more at semcoop.com
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Affinities
(Thames & Hudson...
On this week's Front Table, examine a striking blend of nature writing, scientific literature, and art to delve into the subconscious minds of animals, learn from the maternal wisdom of whales, and sway with the rumbustious history of jazz. Find the following and more at semcoop.com
Blue Note
(Thames & Hudson)
Richard Havers
Blue Note is not only known as the purveyor of extraordinary jazz but is also famous as an arbiter of cool. The superb...
On this week's Front Table, trace the evolution of cultures through texts: from examining translated Chinese literary works of pre-modern China to exploring the ancient monastic texts of Egypt, Sinai, & Palestine following how noise offered desert monks wisdom on inner quietude. Find the following and more at semcoop.com
A Haven and a Hell
(Columbia University Press...
On this week's Fiction & Poetry Front Table, find stories from the road: from poems that move through landscapes of culture, memory, Nigeria, and the American Midwest, to a coming-of-age telling featuring a trans woman who treks cross-country and finds herself in the awkward position of becoming a role model. Find the following and more at semcoop.com
On our Front Table this week, find forms of movement: from letters exchanged between old friends during our first pandemic lockdown, to thoughtful perspectives on the Great Migration, new and old. Find the following titles and more at semcoop.com
Exporting Capitalism: Private Enterprise and US Foreign Policy...
On our Front Table this week, ring the edges of encompassing visions, from a whole-Earth perspective on organic life to 3,000 years of imagining the human circulatory system. Find the following titles and more at semcoop.com
Against Constitutionalism (Harvard University Press)
Martin Loughlin
Constitutionalism is universally commended because it has never been...
On our Front Table this week, look for middle grounds and middle ways, from a sexual history of the US border to the double binds of digital life. Find the following titles and more at semcoop.com
Border Bodies (The University of North Carolina Press)
Bernadine Marie Hernández
In this study of sex, gender, sexual violence, and power along the border, Bernadine Marie Hernández brings to light under-heard stories of women who lived in a critical era of American history....
On our Front Table this week, inspect symbols with multiple meanings, from the multifaceted realities of testosterone to variegated memories of the 1989 Tiananmen protests. Find the following titles and more at semcoop.com
Old Truths and New Clichés: Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Princeton University Press)
Isaac Bashevis Singer, ed. David Stromberg
Old Truths and New Clichés...