On this week's front table, explore the history of justice in the face of state violence, ask how to embrace life in a time of highly visible despair, and read a complex and collective novel about Japanese internment. Then, visit the would-be utopia of Transcendentalist Concord, read a meta-noir about grief and perception, delve into a history of Rolling Stone magazine, and discover a vibrant new poet of our strange modern day. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
On this week's front table, learn collective tactics for housing justice, gain a cartoonist's eye's view on the history of aesthetics, and read a devastating fictional treatment of a tragedy of complicity. Then, sink into a definitive biography of Chopin, read subtly transgressive poetry of uprising, hear the musical inheritance of Africa in contemporary music, and visit a mysterious city for adulterous lovers. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com...
On this week's front table, explore the gun control debate in Renaissance Italy, get an insider view of a notorious disinformation machine, and read a magical realistic epic of aristocratic Hungary. Then, find a new perspective on James Joyce as a political artist, enjoy poems that inhabit a world of flammable metaphors and spiritual fog machines, and trace the rise of police power in the United States. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
On this week's front table, consider an argument for Spinoza as radical atheist, read about a small town's battle against violent radicalism, and confront a colossal and long out-of-print novel of guilt and reckoning. Then, hear an account on the tragedy in Gaza from a citizen, trace the history of American religion as shaped by settler colonialism, and encounter a powerful new writer's novel of a woman stricken by mysterious illness. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
Spinoza, Atheist
(Princeton...
On this week's front table, see the effects of erasure in architecture and the built environment, search for a jeweled egg that was lost to history, and discover Langston Hughes as a translator of Mexican and Cuban literature. Then, gain new perspective on the history of the American frontier, read the groundbreaking short work of a Yenish author, and explore the unsettling of sin by science. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
On this week's front table, re-encounter Confucius through a groundbreaking translation, explore new strategies for children's education, and read a complex procedural about political and personal memory. Then, follow the conflicts and competing values of two social housing co-ops and get lost in a dazzling tragicomedy of desire. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
The Analects
(Liveright Publishing Corporation)
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On this week's front table, read the manifesto of a poet and political activist, delve in policies for a truly public education, and meet the characters of the first bird conservation movement. Then, question what makes a species "invasive," and tune into the poetry of musical communion. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
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On this week's Front Table, explore the impact of technology on identity, dip into the poetic diaries of a beloved Australian writer, and read a novel that unearths the dead of the past and future. Then, learn about the immediate horrors and lasting consequences of the prisons of the American Civil War, sample ghosts stories from around the world, and enjoy the collected drawings of a multimedia artist. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
On this week’s Front Table, explore the Enlightenment development of race, trace the cracks in the foundations of reality TV homes, and read an alt-epic novel of colonialism and resistance. Then, find the not-so-rational ideas that haunted - and made - the Bauhaus movement and dip into the collected stories of an Australian master. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race
(Other Press NY)
Andrew S. Curran
Over the course of the eighteenth century, Enlightenment natural historians and...
Special Damage
(Stanford University Press)
Jessica Lake
In 1788, Mary Smith was ruined and banished from "civilised" society when her neighbor...