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...
On our Front Table this week, reckon with critical encounters, from confronting corporate power games to a comparative analyses across literature and film. Find the following titles and more at semcoop.com
Biblical and Pastoral Poetry (Harvard University Press)
Alcimus Avitus, tr. Michael Roberts
Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, bishop of Vienne and a vigorous defender of Christian orthodoxy, was born into the senatorial aristocracy in southern Gaul in the mid-fifth century and lived until 518. The verse in ...
On our Front Table this week, listen to language in new lights, from the aesthetic vocabularies of sub-Saharan art to lexical excavations in Old English. Find the following titles and more at semcoop.com
Private Notebooks: 1914-1916 (Liveright)
Ludwig Wittgenstein, tr. Marjorie Perloff
During the pandemic, Marjorie Perloff, one of our foremost scholars of global literature, found her mind ineluctably drawn to the profound commentary on life and death in the wartime...
On our Front Table this week, make connections across distance, from ties that bind in fiction, philosophy and art, to chains of global relations linked by a humble wild mushroom. Find the following titles and more at semcoop.com
Diplomatic Gifts: A History in Fifty Presents (Hurst & Co.)
Paul Brummell
Gifts have been part of international relations since ancient times. They can serve as tokens of friendship, apology or authority; as taunts,...
On our Front Table this week, disassemble the mechanics of power, from the necropolitics of yellow fever in Antebellum New Orleans to the strategic conniving of shellfish, rodents, and corvids. Find the following titles and more at semcoop.com
Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age (Random House)
Robert D. Kaplan
In this insightful travelogue, Robert D. Kaplan turns his perceptive eye to a region that for centuries has been a meeting point of cultures, trade, and ideas. Often overlooked, the Adriatic is in fact at the center of some of the...
On our Front Table this week, weigh contradictory impulses, from artists negotiating contested motherhoods to fractious communities formed in prison. Find the following titles and more at semcoop.com
The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem (W. W. Norton & Company)
Julie Phillips
With fierce empathy, Julie Phillips evokes the intimate and varied struggles of brilliant artists and writers of the twentieth century. These mothers had one child, or five, or seven. They worked in a studio, in the kitchen, in the car...
On our Front Table this week, sink into selections of new and reissued fiction and poetry, from the viscous loneliness of small town life to the lush violence of romance across borders, revolutions, and other divides. Find the following titles and more at semcoop.com
Astra Magazine: Ectasy, Issue 1 (Astra House)
Edited by Nadja Spiegelman
Astra Magazine...