Islands of decolonial love
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In her debut collection of short stories, ''Islands of decolonial love,'' renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. Found on reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars and curling rinks, canoes and community centres, doctors offices and pickup(...)
Islands of decolonial love
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In her debut collection of short stories, ''Islands of decolonial love,'' renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. Found on reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars and curling rinks, canoes and community centres, doctors offices and pickup trucks, Simpson's characters confront the often heartbreaking challenge of pairing the desire to live loving and observant lives with a constant struggle to simply survive the historical and ongoing injustices of racism and colonialism. Told with voices that are rarely recorded but need to be heard, and incorporating the language and history of her people, Leanne Simpson's ''Islands of decolonial love'' is a profound, important, and beautiful book of fiction.
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In ''Doomed and famous,'' an obituarist opens his archive in celebration of the most marginal and improbable characters, creating a meta-fiction of extinction and obscurity. For many decades Adrian Dannatt tracked and dredged the dead, with a macabre disregard for the etiquette of mortality. His specialty, much in demand among even the most mainstream publications, was to(...)
Doomed and famous: selected obituaries
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In ''Doomed and famous,'' an obituarist opens his archive in celebration of the most marginal and improbable characters, creating a meta-fiction of extinction and obscurity. For many decades Adrian Dannatt tracked and dredged the dead, with a macabre disregard for the etiquette of mortality. His specialty, much in demand among even the most mainstream publications, was to memorialize those whose eccentricity or criminality made them unlikely candidates for the fleeting immortality of a newspaper necrology. Dannatt maintained a veritable lust, perverse certainly, for capturing and celebrating such wayward existences. This book is a selection of some of the best—meaning most improbable—of these miniature biographies.
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Aisha Sasha John's "Thou" is a powerful collection of two long, narrative poems exploring the social space that exists between the self and others. Using the language that connects these two states of being, THOU investigates the idea of "you" -- what it is and what it means to say "you," the stories we make of our own multiple "yous," and by extension, the "you" an(...)
Thou
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Aisha Sasha John's "Thou" is a powerful collection of two long, narrative poems exploring the social space that exists between the self and others. Using the language that connects these two states of being, THOU investigates the idea of "you" -- what it is and what it means to say "you," the stories we make of our own multiple "yous," and by extension, the "you" an author can make of her own book.
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Dans ce livre, il y a des ruines et des martyrs, des vestiges, des temples, des sanctuaires, des portiques, il y a des tombes, des cercueils, des mausolées, des cimetières, des épitaphes. Il y a des sépultures mythiques et des fosses communes. Il y a des résistants tués, des révoltés abattus, des leaders assassinés, des enfants massacrés, des nationalistes pendus. Il y a(...)
Ma très grande mélancolie arabe
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Dans ce livre, il y a des ruines et des martyrs, des vestiges, des temples, des sanctuaires, des portiques, il y a des tombes, des cercueils, des mausolées, des cimetières, des épitaphes. Il y a des sépultures mythiques et des fosses communes. Il y a des résistants tués, des révoltés abattus, des leaders assassinés, des enfants massacrés, des nationalistes pendus. Il y a des prophètes, des dieux, des vierges, des archanges, il y a des victimes et des assassins. Il y a aussi des citadelles, des basiliques, des mosquées, des dômes, des minarets, des miradors, des barbelés, des carcasses d'hôtels, de cinémas, des camps et des prisons. Et des détenus, des captifs, des séquestrés, des torturés. Il y a des condamnés à mort. Il y a des miliciens et des dictateurs, des fidayins et des moudjahidins, une infirmière kamikaze, une miss Univers et un prince rouge, des émirs, des C'est une danse macabre. Il y a un siècle au Proche-Orient.
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L'attitude de flâneur excentrique de Henry D. Thoreau était perçue comme une prvocation: il n'en avait cure parce que la marche dans la nature était essentielle à sa liberté; elle formait le coeur d'un art de vivre exigeant plusieurs heures de promenade chaque jour. Elle s'insérait dans son idéal de culture de soi. "Marcher" s'ouvre sur le ton du plaidoyer et présente une(...)
Marcher
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L'attitude de flâneur excentrique de Henry D. Thoreau était perçue comme une prvocation: il n'en avait cure parce que la marche dans la nature était essentielle à sa liberté; elle formait le coeur d'un art de vivre exigeant plusieurs heures de promenade chaque jour. Elle s'insérait dans son idéal de culture de soi. "Marcher" s'ouvre sur le ton du plaidoyer et présente une lutte: marcher pour affirmer sa liberté d'homme, pour s'ancrer dans l'espace, fuir les villes et les clôtures et mieux penser le monde.
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Le XIQ est un pont entre littérature et architecture: il poursuit les recherches de l’auteur autour du rapport intime entre texte et dessin, entre récit et album. C’est un conte architectural, souvent plein d’humour, à la forte identité graphique. L’ouvrage imbrique selon une construction précise, permettant diverses navigations à travers l’ouvrage, trois formes de(...)
Le XIQ : dits et dessins d'architecture
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Le XIQ est un pont entre littérature et architecture: il poursuit les recherches de l’auteur autour du rapport intime entre texte et dessin, entre récit et album. C’est un conte architectural, souvent plein d’humour, à la forte identité graphique. L’ouvrage imbrique selon une construction précise, permettant diverses navigations à travers l’ouvrage, trois formes de narration: un lexique (X), des interludes (I) et des fictions architecturales (Q). Ces trois formes donnent le titre : les X sont les inconnues, les I les invités (Paul Ricoeur, Anne-Marie Schwarzenbach, Georges Perec, Italo Calvino,…) et les Q les quastions (ou quasi-fictions). Le XIQ offre un voyage dans la compréhension critique de l’architecture autour d’un kaléïdoscope de renvois et de références de tous temps, de la culture populaire aux thèmes actuels, en passant par des questions de nature philosophique et esthétique.
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The latest winter
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In this, her second anthology of poetry, Maggie Nelson experiments with poetic forms long and short as she charts intimate landscapes, including the poet’s enmeshment in a beloved city—New York—before and after the events of 9/11. The poems of The Latest Winter are rich with wit, melancholy, terror, curiosity, and love.
The latest winter
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In this, her second anthology of poetry, Maggie Nelson experiments with poetic forms long and short as she charts intimate landscapes, including the poet’s enmeshment in a beloved city—New York—before and after the events of 9/11. The poems of The Latest Winter are rich with wit, melancholy, terror, curiosity, and love.
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Vous souffrez d'agoraphobie, de la crise de la quarantaine, d'une jambe cassée ou d'un chagrin d'amour ? Sachez qu’un livre peut avoir l'effet d'un prodigieux médicament, voire vous sauver ! Vous en doutez ? Essayez plutôt... Vous trouverez ici les meilleurs romans adaptés à votre cas. Garantis sans effets secondaires, ils vous permettront de traiter les pathologies(...)
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Remèdes littéraires : se soigner par les livres
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Vous souffrez d'agoraphobie, de la crise de la quarantaine, d'une jambe cassée ou d'un chagrin d'amour ? Sachez qu’un livre peut avoir l'effet d'un prodigieux médicament, voire vous sauver ! Vous en doutez ? Essayez plutôt... Vous trouverez ici les meilleurs romans adaptés à votre cas. Garantis sans effets secondaires, ils vous permettront de traiter les pathologies telles que : abandon, alcoolisme, calvitie, rage de dents, mal de dos, harcèlement, hémorroïdes, insomnie, jalousie, ménopause, obésité, rhume des foins, solitude… et bien d'autres !
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Upon his death, Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) left hundreds of notes on an unrealized great work he called ''The Book.'' Housed in a clear Plexiglas box, this card-deck conception of his project draws from that material, and from other writings alluding to its possible forms, including a letter in which he describes ''a book that is architectural... The orphic explanation(...)
The glorious lie/The gloy of the lie : A poetry card game inspired by Stéphane Mallarmé's ''The Book''
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Upon his death, Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) left hundreds of notes on an unrealized great work he called ''The Book.'' Housed in a clear Plexiglas box, this card-deck conception of his project draws from that material, and from other writings alluding to its possible forms, including a letter in which he describes ''a book that is architectural... The orphic explanation of the Earth, which is the sole duty of the poet, and the literary game par excellence.'' The title of this game derives from another letter in which Mallarmé writes, ''perhaps the title of my volume of lyric poetry will be 'The Glory of the Lie, or The Glorious Lie.' ” Each deck contains 48 cards: three with artwork on each side, and 45 with words or phrases on each side. The size of the cards, their gold edging and the physical housing of the decks in the box reflect descriptions and clues in Mallarmé’s notes. The manner of playing the game is left open, but quotes and diagrams by Mallarmé in the accompanying 20-page booklet point to the idea of pulling cards from each of the four decks and laying them out for one reading, then flipping the cards over for a second reading. The image cards function like the Arcana of Tarot, providing a visual language equal to the word cards. The readings might be used to create poetry or, like Tarot, to divine or illuminate.
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Through charm, drive, and diligent effort Octave Mouret has become the director of one of the finest new department stores in Paris, '' Au Bonheur des Dames''. Supremely aware of the power of his position, Mouret seeks to exploit the desire that his luxuriantly displayed merchandise arouses in the ladies who shop, and the aspirations of the young female assistants he(...)
Au bonheur des dames (The ladies delight)
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Through charm, drive, and diligent effort Octave Mouret has become the director of one of the finest new department stores in Paris, '' Au Bonheur des Dames''. Supremely aware of the power of his position, Mouret seeks to exploit the desire that his luxuriantly displayed merchandise arouses in the ladies who shop, and the aspirations of the young female assistants he employs. Charting the beginnings of the capitalist economy and bourgeois society, Zola captures in lavish detail the greedy customers and gossiping staff, and the obsession with image, fashion, and gratification that was a phenomenon of nineteenth-century French consumer society. Of all Zola's novels, this may be the one with the most relevance for our own time.
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