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Under the pavements of Paris there lies buried an ancient river, the Bièvre. For years, Lucy Frost has walked along these streets, unaware of the water and history under her feet, on her way to clean the apartments of Paris’s academic class. As she begins to study and transcribe the inherited notebooks and papers of her great-aunt, a teacher and researcher who disappeared(...)
Riverwork
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Under the pavements of Paris there lies buried an ancient river, the Bièvre. For years, Lucy Frost has walked along these streets, unaware of the water and history under her feet, on her way to clean the apartments of Paris’s academic class. As she begins to study and transcribe the inherited notebooks and papers of her great-aunt, a teacher and researcher who disappeared years earlier, she commits to continuing her aunt’s youthful research on the Bièvre, mining the river’s documentary traces in the works of Rousseau, Rabelais, Hugo, Chateaubriand, and the like. She uncovers a history of industry: paper mills, dyeing workshops, tanneries, and textile manufacturers – and laundries. She finds resonances of her own labour in the history of the river’s laundresses. On stolen time at work, and in her insomniac hours of nightwriting, she fills notebooks with these woven stories and descriptions of obsolete sites, textiles, cosmologies, and voices, constructing her own forms of relation with the lost. ''Riverwork'' unearths not just an urban river but also a philosophy of research and the archive, a politics of hydrology, an ontology of ageing and belatedness, and a consideration of the unrepresented labour of women, past and present. Along the way it brings to life, in pyrotechnic prose, a long-gone Paris and both its domestic workers and its writers.
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Your name here
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A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff weave together America’s "War on Terror," countless years of literary history, authorial sleight of hand, Scientology, dream analysis, multiple languages, emails, images, graphs, into(...)
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A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff weave together America’s "War on Terror," countless years of literary history, authorial sleight of hand, Scientology, dream analysis, multiple languages, emails, images, graphs, into something wondrous and unique. A metafictional Pygmalion story reminiscent of Charlie Kaufman‘s Oscar-nominated Adaptation, or Italo Calvino’s "If on a winter’s night a traveler"; "Your name here" is a rare work of art that captures the process of becoming itself. A reminder that a masterpiece and a doomed voyage look the same at the start.
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Arbre pleure
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C’est une colère qui monte de tout un pays. Une insurrection des choses, des êtres, des plantes, de la terre. C’est la sève des hévéas de la plantation. C’est l’esprit-araignée du roi-chaman qui envahit les pensées des colons. En entremêlant les perspectives des travailleuses et travailleurs indigènes, des colons, des animaux, des végétaux, Thi Colas nous invite à une(...)
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C’est une colère qui monte de tout un pays. Une insurrection des choses, des êtres, des plantes, de la terre. C’est la sève des hévéas de la plantation. C’est l’esprit-araignée du roi-chaman qui envahit les pensées des colons. En entremêlant les perspectives des travailleuses et travailleurs indigènes, des colons, des animaux, des végétaux, Thi Colas nous invite à une expérience sensorielle et spirituelle singulière, entre prose et poésie, mêlant la douceur et la rage.
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Housekeeping
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''Housekeeping'' is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, the same lake(...)
Housekeeping
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''Housekeeping'' is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a town "chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere." Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience.
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The wife of Bath
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Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s ''Canterbury Tales'', the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few literary characters have led such colourful lives or matched her influence or capacity for reinvention in(...)
The wife of Bath
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Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s ''Canterbury Tales'', the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few literary characters have led such colourful lives or matched her influence or capacity for reinvention in poetry, drama, fiction, and film. In ''The Wife of Bath'', Marion Turner tells the fascinating story of where Chaucer’s favourite character came from, how she related to real medieval women, and where her many travels have taken her since the fourteenth century, from Falstaff and Molly Bloom to #MeToo and Black Lives Matter.
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For more than four decades, Peter Miller has run a design bookshop that shares his name in Seattle. He has also written three of his own books, manuals about cooking and about food and about eating together. In this love letter to his day job, Miller writes for the first time about his other love: shopkeeping. Miller crafts stories from the bookshop floor with wry(...)
Shopkeeping: Stories, advice, and observations
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For more than four decades, Peter Miller has run a design bookshop that shares his name in Seattle. He has also written three of his own books, manuals about cooking and about food and about eating together. In this love letter to his day job, Miller writes for the first time about his other love: shopkeeping. Miller crafts stories from the bookshop floor with wry humor and skillful storytelling. Readers are taken on a shopkeeping journey and will come to understand along the way that small shops characterize our towns and cities, making them unique, special, and worth visiting and living near. This essay collection is for shop lovers everywhere and captures the art and heart of running a local shop treasured by the community that surrounds it.
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James Baldwin was one of America’s most powerful analysts of the psychology of white supremacy. In this speech he offers a devastating, but also strikingly empathetic, account of the role played by racism in American society.
The American Dream is at the expense of the American negro
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James Baldwin was one of America’s most powerful analysts of the psychology of white supremacy. In this speech he offers a devastating, but also strikingly empathetic, account of the role played by racism in American society.
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The invisible collection
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An ostensibly whimsical story about the adventures of a Berlin art dealer, Stefan Zweig’s ''The Invisible Collection'' is a powerful evocation of the condition of Germany between the wars. When Zweig’s anonymous narrator sets out for the provinces in search of a lucrative bargain, he finds himself caught up in the slow unfolding of a family tragedy—and is confronted with(...)
The invisible collection
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An ostensibly whimsical story about the adventures of a Berlin art dealer, Stefan Zweig’s ''The Invisible Collection'' is a powerful evocation of the condition of Germany between the wars. When Zweig’s anonymous narrator sets out for the provinces in search of a lucrative bargain, he finds himself caught up in the slow unfolding of a family tragedy—and is confronted with a unique reminder of the power of art…
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Problèmes de localisation
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En sortant de l'école d'art, Elise Legal parcourt un monde de crises économiques, d'absurdités politiques et d'angoisses écologiques. Un monde dans lequel elle doit désormais légitimer sa démarche artistique dans des dossiers qui en font une fiction. Problèmes de localisation contient sept textes, composés d'analyses critiques, de récits personnels et de poèmes, qui(...)
Problèmes de localisation
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En sortant de l'école d'art, Elise Legal parcourt un monde de crises économiques, d'absurdités politiques et d'angoisses écologiques. Un monde dans lequel elle doit désormais légitimer sa démarche artistique dans des dossiers qui en font une fiction. Problèmes de localisation contient sept textes, composés d'analyses critiques, de récits personnels et de poèmes, qui racontent cette entrée dans un environnement où circulent les corps, les marchandises, les informations et les capitaux. Elise Legal s'y déplace en voiture, en co-voiturage, en train, en bus ou en avion, découvrant ce que ce monde de transaction et de fluidité fait au langage. Elle cherche à comprendre comment il est incarné, échangé et habité dans les voix des pilotes d'avion, des startupers ou du président de la République, dans les textes de loi, les formulaires de demandes de bourses, la parole de ses enseigant·es, dans les textes de théorie critique comme dans la poésie des banquiers.
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Dans ce journal d'un jardin au fil des saisons, la poétesse Anne Rothschild nous dit son enchantement pour la beauté buissonnière, la vie surgissante des fleurs, la douceur des pluies estivales, la bienveillance des arbres, les maraudes de ses chats ou le dialogue des oiseaux.... On y respire la vie, on y savoure les poètes et les textes sacrés qui égrènent leurs vers et(...)
Conversations avec mes arbres : Journal d'un jardin à travers les saisons
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Dans ce journal d'un jardin au fil des saisons, la poétesse Anne Rothschild nous dit son enchantement pour la beauté buissonnière, la vie surgissante des fleurs, la douceur des pluies estivales, la bienveillance des arbres, les maraudes de ses chats ou le dialogue des oiseaux.... On y respire la vie, on y savoure les poètes et les textes sacrés qui égrènent leurs vers et leurs mots secrets au tournant des pages..
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