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A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture’s beloved artists offers a detailed account of her own creative process, inspirations, and unexpected connections.
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A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture’s beloved artists offers a detailed account of her own creative process, inspirations, and unexpected connections.
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This illustrated work reflects on the cultural implications of smoking, and suggests, through a series of brilliantly inventive illustrations, that society's attitude to smoke is both paradoxical and intolerant. It portrays a world in which smokers, banished from public places, must encounter one another as outlaws. Meanwhile, car exhausts and factory chimneys continue to(...)
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This illustrated work reflects on the cultural implications of smoking, and suggests, through a series of brilliantly inventive illustrations, that society's attitude to smoke is both paradoxical and intolerant. It portrays a world in which smokers, banished from public places, must encounter one another as outlaws. Meanwhile, car exhausts and factory chimneys continue to pollute the atmosphere. Smoke is a beautifully illustrated prose poem that lingers in the mind. "A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared you are both in that parenthesis. It's like a proscenium arch for a dialogue." - John Berger (in interview)
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In this electrifying and raw debut anthology, Maggie Nelson unpicks the everyday with the quick alchemy and precision of her later modern classics "The Argonauts and Bluets". The poems of "Shiner" experiment with a variety of styles—syllabic verse, sonnets, macaronic translation, Zen poems, walking poems—to express love, bewilderment, grief, and beauty. This book,(...)
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In this electrifying and raw debut anthology, Maggie Nelson unpicks the everyday with the quick alchemy and precision of her later modern classics "The Argonauts and Bluets". The poems of "Shiner" experiment with a variety of styles—syllabic verse, sonnets, macaronic translation, Zen poems, walking poems—to express love, bewilderment, grief, and beauty. This book, Nelson's first, heralded the arrival of a fully formed, virtuoso voice.
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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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Science fiction has historically been seen as a masculine domain, but from the very beginning women have made their mark. To the ranks of Mary Shelley and C. L. Moore, we should add Clare Winger Harris, whose pulp stories in the early twentieth century influenced the boom of modern writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood. In this new collection, author and(...)
The artificial man and other stories
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Science fiction has historically been seen as a masculine domain, but from the very beginning women have made their mark. To the ranks of Mary Shelley and C. L. Moore, we should add Clare Winger Harris, whose pulp stories in the early twentieth century influenced the boom of modern writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood. In this new collection, author and scholar Brad Ricca assembles ten of Harris's greatest short stories, including "The Fifth Dimension," "The Fate of the Poseidonia," "The Menace of Mars," and "The Vibrometer."
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Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition. The vestiges of secret tunnels, the ghosts of saints and lost poets lie buried by developments, the cycling revolution and Brexit.
The last London: true fictions from an unreal city
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Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition. The vestiges of secret tunnels, the ghosts of saints and lost poets lie buried by developments, the cycling revolution and Brexit.
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Sarcellopolis
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Durant l'hiver 1963, le romancier Marc Bernard est envoyé à Sarcelles par son éditeur. Sa mission : s'installer durant trois mois dans cette ville nouvelle, dans ce grand ensemble flambant neuf et en ramener un livre de témoignage. Ce sera Sarcellopolis. Un essai sociologique ? Un traité d'urbanisme ? Non, plutôt un récit de voyage dans un pays étrange, que Marc Bernard(...)
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Durant l'hiver 1963, le romancier Marc Bernard est envoyé à Sarcelles par son éditeur. Sa mission : s'installer durant trois mois dans cette ville nouvelle, dans ce grand ensemble flambant neuf et en ramener un livre de témoignage. Ce sera Sarcellopolis. Un essai sociologique ? Un traité d'urbanisme ? Non, plutôt un récit de voyage dans un pays étrange, que Marc Bernard découvre à travers ses habitants, Sarcellois de la première heure, croqués avec humour et tendresse. Même si l'auteur entrevoit déjà que l'avenir ne sera pas toujours rose à Sarcelles...
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Solution 257: complete love
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Ingo Niermann’s new novel imagines a Berlin alternative to the activist occupation of public spaces in 2011. The completists, gathered at Alexanderplatz, aspire for justice through intimacy. They believe that only when the redistribution of material wealth includes equal chances of finding sex and love—no matter how elderly, disabled, or ugly you are—communism will become(...)
Solution 257: complete love
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Ingo Niermann’s new novel imagines a Berlin alternative to the activist occupation of public spaces in 2011. The completists, gathered at Alexanderplatz, aspire for justice through intimacy. They believe that only when the redistribution of material wealth includes equal chances of finding sex and love—no matter how elderly, disabled, or ugly you are—communism will become real. This volume of the Solution series is an erotic fiction.
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The overstory
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The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of — and paean to — the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late(...)
The overstory
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The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of — and paean to — the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
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L'odeur de chlore
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En 1945, Le Corbusier invente une notion architecturale : Le Modulor, silhouette humaine standardisée servant à concevoir la structure et la taille des unités d’habitation dessinées par l’architecte. Plusieurs habitations furent conçues sur ce mode, comme La Cité radieuse à Marseille, ou La Maison radieuse de Rezé, près de Nantes. Parmi elles, l’Unité d’habitation de(...)
L'odeur de chlore
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En 1945, Le Corbusier invente une notion architecturale : Le Modulor, silhouette humaine standardisée servant à concevoir la structure et la taille des unités d’habitation dessinées par l’architecte. Plusieurs habitations furent conçues sur ce mode, comme La Cité radieuse à Marseille, ou La Maison radieuse de Rezé, près de Nantes. Parmi elles, l’Unité d’habitation de Firminy-Vert, près de Saint-Etienne. Le Corbusier décédé avant de faire aboutir ce projet, la piscine prévue pour l’Unité d’habitation de Firminy- Vert est finalement pensée et construite entre 1969 et 1971 par André Wogenscky, sur les mesures du Modulor. Cette piscine est le cadre de L’Odeur de chlore. "L’Odeur de chlore" est le récit d’une femme dont le corps grandit et évolue, année après année, dans cette piscine qu’elle fréquente assidûment et élaborée selon les standards de « l’homme parfait », Le Modulor.
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