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The Book of Collateral Damage
Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon’s fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi...
Anti-Pluralism
The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy
The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar...
The Castle
A History
A vibrant history of the castle in England, from the early Middle Ages to the present day The castle has long had a pivotal place in English life, associated with lordship, landholding, and military might, and today...
Urban Lichens
A Field Guide for Northeastern North America
A practical field guide to the common lichens found in the northeastern megalopolis, including New York City, Toronto, Boston/New Haven, Philadelphia, Baltimore/Washington, D.C., and as far west as Chicago Lichens...
Jonas Mekas
The Camera Was Always Running
Exploring the life and work of avant-garde film’s most influential and intriguing figure Between 1950 and his death, the artist and impresario Jonas Mekas (1922–2019) made more than one hundred radically innovative,...
Ranquil
Rural Rebellion, Political Violence, and Historical Memory in Chile
The first major history of Chile’s most significant peasant rebellion and the violent repression that followed In 1934, peasants turned to revolution to overturn Chile’s oligarchic political order and the profound...
Reality of Dreams
Post-Neoliberal Utopias in the Ecuadorian Amazon
An exploration of radical megaprojects in the Ecuadorian Amazon, considering the fate of utopian fantasies under conditions of global capitalism From 2007 to 2017, the “Citizens’ Revolution” launched an ambitious...
The Weaponisation of Everything
A Field Guide to the New Way of War
An engaging guide to the various ways in which war is now waged—and how to adapt to this new reality Hybrid War, Grey Zone Warfare, Unrestricted War: today, traditional conflict—fought with guns, bombs, and drones...
Home
100 Poems
Evocative poems and prose fragments about home, selected by one of the most celebrated poets of our time In this poignant collection, Christian Wiman draws together one hundred evocative poems and prose fragments...
This Is Not Normal
The Politics of Everyday Expectations
How our shifting sense of "what's normal" defines the character of democracy"A provocative examination of social constructs and those who would alternately undo or improve them."—Kirkus Reviews...