Is it any wonder so many artists self-destruct so spectacularly?

Johanna Hedva stuffs queer explosive into the cracks between identity and aspiration, between desire and art, and revels in the raining debris.

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From 1995, an era-defining, unique and provocative anthology of lesbian writing.

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Constance DeJong’s long-neglected 1977 novel is one thing made up of many.

Modern Love’s continuity is made of flow and motion; like an experience, it accumulates as you read, at that moment, through successive moments, right to the end.

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Refaat Alareer wrote a poem called “If I Die,” asking people to fly a kite in his name if he’s killed to give hope to orphaned children.

He wrote it for his daughter, Shaima.

Israel killed him. Months later Shaima had a baby.

Israel killed Shaima.

And her husband and baby.

BOYCOTT FOR GAZA, BOYCOTT FOR HUMANITY.

It is your humanitarian duty to refrain from supporting those who fund the Israeli military responsible for the genocide.

What do you mean you haven't read Riddley Walker?

Russell Hoban's 1980 post-apocalyptic masterpiece is more urgent than ever.

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The number of homes-per-capita has been modestly growing over the last 20 years. What has changed is the nature of landlordism. It is a boom industry: two million new landlords have been created since the end of the Thatcher govt.

Nick Bano
Verso Books
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Federico Campagna explores the twilight of our contemporary notion of reality, and the fading of the cosmological story that belonged to the civilisation of Westernised Modernity.
How can we help the creation of new worlds out of the ruins of our own?

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Raman Mundair was born in Ludhiana, India and came to live in the UK at the age of five.

Her poetic voice dances with her love for the language and life of the Shetland Islands through the anguish of war to the movement of people.

Peepal Tree Press
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Going down the magic and anthropoogy rabbit hole.

As stage magic established for itself a circumscribed realm of suspension of disbelief, colonial ethnographers drew on the language of that realm in describing native ritual performers.

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A significant part of her personal research was the invention of a machine that offered a new form of sound synthesis – the Oramics machine.

Genius pioneering sound woman.

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Thirteen-year-old Lora join's Premier Castro’s army of young literacy teachers in a coming-of-age journey from a sheltered life to a singular mission: teaching fellow Cubans of all ages to read and write.

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You won't believe what happened to the best minds of Allen Ginsberg's generation!

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A young man arrives in the anarchic city of Bellona, in a near future USA.
He begins to write a novel called Dhalgren that begins where it ends.
Dhalgren is about the possibilites of fiction and about the special demands and pleasures of youth culture.
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Jean Genet turned his experiences of life amongst pimps, whores, thugs and other fellow social outcasts into a poetic literature. His writing transforms degradations into an inverted moral code, where criminality and delinquency become heroic.

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A dazzling instant classic, Shola von Reinhold's decadent queer literary debut immerses readers in the pursuit of aesthetics and beauty while interrogating the removal and obscurement of Black figures from history.

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We have to be building a new world even as the old one tries to tear us apart. The Commoner's Catalog offers a way forward through system-change activism, creating an economics of sufficiency, a politics of fairness, and a culture of belonging.

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Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true? This little book proposes a communism that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism.

bini adamczak
The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social

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