On this week's Fiction and Poerty Front Table, find tales that blur the line between reality and our collective delusions; from a toxic friendship built around a drug that makes you invisible to the internal monologue of a woman with trypophobia recounting her failed relationships. Find the following and more at semcoop.com
Bliss Montage
(Straus and Giroux Farrar)
Ling Ma
What happens when fantasy tears through the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end? In ...
On this week's Front Table, explore the controversial histories that shape our future, from the fragile alliance between Black voters and the Democratic party to the challenged texts being brought into classrooms to confront the harm they invoke. Find the following and more at semcoop.com
Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future
(Macmillan)...
We are thrilled to be celebrating 55 years of Third World Press! Read below for a short history of Third World Press, Dr. Madhubuti, and find a selection of featured titles.
History of Third World Press: Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti founded Third World Press, then the second oldest independent publisher of Black thought and literature in the nation, in 1967. Madhubuti (then known as Don L. Lee), with early support from Johari Amini and Carolyn Rodgers, launched Third World Press from his basement apartment on the South Side of Chicago. With Madhubuti’s $400 honorarium received from a poetry...
On this week's Front Table, consider how genre emerges and ends, from uncovering the silver threads & golden needles that birthed pop music to how the long history of Jewish literature challenges the modern phenomenon that is the "death of the book." Find the following and more at semcoop.com
Bully Market: My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs
(Simon, Schuster)
Jamie Fiore...
On this week's Front Table, travel through oceans and centuries studying the transformation of cultures: from Europe's eastern borderlands, seeing through migrant's eyes during World War II to the beginning of interest - what once was considered usury has now become the "price of money." Find the following and more at semcoop.com
Peace and Friendship
(USA Oxford...
On this week's Front Table, find rich analysis of the hidden logics that govern us: from nuanced investigations into a for-profit healthcare system and the marginalized diseases it ignores to how an economy’s addiction to military spending distorts science into being subservient to destruction. Find the following and more at semcoop.com
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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...