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On This Week's Front Table, examine a new collection that unforgettably describes a spiritual and physical journey; then critique the nature of knowledge and judgment. Consider what it means to truly express oneself through art; and then explore how one of America's most powerful and misunderstood electorates may come to define the future of American politics. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.

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On This Week's Front Table, throw yourself into a sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value--art, memory, poetry, music, care--are thrown into sharp relief; then examine a brilliant exploration of freedom--what it is, how it's been misunderstood, and why it's our only chance for survival, followed by a warm-spirited elegy to an abandoned work. Ponder how mourning can help us thrive, the role of moral exemplars in shaping our sense of the good, and the place of gratitude in human life; and then consider a scorching new fiction illuminating an argument between a father and his daughter that examines the fraught...

On This Week's Front Table, trace the figures of the shapes by which we abide: triangles, through revelatory analysis of trigonometry in our world; the incongruent parcels of land and measures of power detailed in the accounts of historic monarchs and historic financial failures; the right angles of brick-and-mortar bookstores and the irreplaceable value of such places. Then, deconstruct those shapes altogether – through poetry that reveals the sanctity and frailty of human memory, through the courageous translation of classic Russian satire, and the tangled woven web of a collapsing wealthy family in new fiction. Find these titles and more at ...

On This Week's Front Table, watch the matchstick efforts throughout two-thousand years of human history flicker and flare with the hope of building the good life; observe the spaces in pop culture and protest for reimagination of Indigenous personhood through new poetry and the machines that illuminate or break human spirits – from electronic pop music to the local carceral state. See through time towards the endless possibilities of the world Kafka and Einstein shared in early twentieth-century Prague, and reflect on new and classic fiction about the lives of Upper West Side women. Find these titles and more at ...