On this week’s Front Table, witness a decade of upheaval through a journalist’s sharp chronicle of protest, and step into the heart of Puerto Rico where a mother and daughter fight to rebuild what violence has torn apart. Visit 1970s Copenhagen through a child raised by seven feminist mothers, and join a defiant woman as she stages her own swayamvar to test the limits of love, age, and autonomy. Explore the digital frontier in a writer’s personal history of the Internet, drift through the dreamscapes of a poet reckoning with insomnia, and glimpse a near future where biotechnology, AI, and genetics converge to reshape the human story. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
On this week’s Front Table, dive in to a lyrical anti-epic about the beauty, violence, trauma, and absurdity of the internet age; consider a provocative and meticulously structured exploration of identity, language, and the body; and ponder the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century with two extraordinary thinkers. Then, enjoy an essential collection spanning nearly twenty years of emphatic, fearlessly original poetry from one of America's most celebrated living writers; relish an intimate and sharply written book following a nail salon owner as she toils away for the privileged clients who don't even know her true name; and examine a social manifesto exploring the remarkable resilience of wild nature, and how we can heal ourselves by healing the Earth. Find these titles and more at ...
