Oval, a novel
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In the near future, Berlin's real estate is being flipped in the name of "sustainability," only to make the city even more unaffordable; artists are employed by corporations as consultants, and the weather is acting strange. When Anja and Louis are offered a rent-free home on an artificial mountain - yet another eco-friendly initiative run by a corporation - they seize(...)
Oval, a novel
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In the near future, Berlin's real estate is being flipped in the name of "sustainability," only to make the city even more unaffordable; artists are employed by corporations as consultants, and the weather is acting strange. When Anja and Louis are offered a rent-free home on an artificial mountain - yet another eco-friendly initiative run by a corporation - they seize the opportunity, but it isn't long before the experimental house begins malfunctioning. After Louis's mother dies, Anja is convinced he has changed. At work, Louis has become obsessed with a secret project: a pill called Oval that temporarily rewires the user's brain to be more generous. While Anja is horrified, Louis believes he has found the solution to Berlin's income inequality.
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Guestbook: ghost stories
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A tennis prodigy collapses after his wins, crediting them to an invisible, not entirely benevolent presence. A series of ghosts appear at their former bedsides, some distraught, some fascinated, to witness their unfamiliar occupants. A woman returns from a visit to Alcatraz with an uncomfortable feeling. The spirit of a prisoner has attached himself to you, a friend tells(...)
Guestbook: ghost stories
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A tennis prodigy collapses after his wins, crediting them to an invisible, not entirely benevolent presence. A series of ghosts appear at their former bedsides, some distraught, some fascinated, to witness their unfamiliar occupants. A woman returns from a visit to Alcatraz with an uncomfortable feeling. The spirit of a prisoner has attached himself to you, a friend tells her. He sensed the sympathy you had for those men. In more than two dozen stories and vignettes, accompanied by an evocative curiosity cabinet of artifacts and images, “Guestbook beckons” us through the glimmering, unsettling evidence that marks our paths in life.
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In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France’s Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Packing up his enormous, 35,000-volume personal library, choosing which books to keep, store, or cast out, Manguel found himself in deep reverie on the nature of relationships between(...)
Packing my library: an elegy and ten digressions
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In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France’s Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Packing up his enormous, 35,000-volume personal library, choosing which books to keep, store, or cast out, Manguel found himself in deep reverie on the nature of relationships between books and readers, books and collectors, order and disorder, memory and reading. In this poignant and personal reevaluation of his life as a reader, the author illuminates the highly personal art of reading and affirms the vital role of public libraries.
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Written by a mathematician, a poet and a mathematician-poet, this 1969 guide to the ancient Japanese game of Go was not only the first such guide to be published in France (and thereby introduced the centuries-old game of strategy into that country) but something of a subtle Oulipian guidebook to writing strategies and tactics. Translated for the first time, this(...)
A short treatise inviting the reader to discover the subtle art of Go
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Written by a mathematician, a poet and a mathematician-poet, this 1969 guide to the ancient Japanese game of Go was not only the first such guide to be published in France (and thereby introduced the centuries-old game of strategy into that country) but something of a subtle Oulipian guidebook to writing strategies and tactics. Translated for the first time, this treatise outlines the history of Go, the rules for playing it, some central tactics and strategies for playing it and overcoming the threats posed by an opponent, general information and trivia, and a glossary that ranges from Atari (check) to Yose (the end of a match).
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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(...)
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 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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