I have learned many words for 'island': isle, atoll, eyot, islet, or skerry. They exist in archipelagos or alone, and always, by definition, I have understood them by their relation to water. But the Chinese word for island knows nothing of water. uk.bookshop.org/a/1484/9780349…

Thinking outside the critical-complicit and abstract-representational binaries that continue to haunt contemporary queer art, Simmons proposes a new kind of queer art writing, one that skirts the limits imposed by normative histories of art and film. uk.bookshop.org/a/1484/9783982…

To be working-class in a middle-class world is to be a ghost. Excluded, marginalised, and subjected to violence, the working class is also deemed by those in power to not exist. uk.bookshop.org/a/1484/9781912…

One night a satellite falls out of the sky and splits a girl in half. Disquiet Drive is a book scraped together from the shorn parts of a person who may no longer exist. Pilot Press uk.bookshop.org/a/1484/9781739…

The classic three volumes of Hebridean Folksongs, reissued simultaneously for the first time since their original publication (1969, 1977, 1981), contain 135 songs connected with the waulking of homespun tweed cloth in the Hebridean isles. uk.bookshop.org/a/1484/9781910…

This is the story of Corey Fah, a writer on the cusp of a windfall, courtesy of the Social Evils prize committee, for whom the actual gong - and with it the prize money - remains tantalizingly out of reach. Penguin Books UK uk.bookshop.org/a/1484/9780241…

‘In the early 21st century, a small but dedicated underground heavy metal movement flourished in Baghdad ... 1/5

The closure of Creative Scotland Open Fund for Individuals is yet another blow for Scotland's culture sector, this time cutting right at its heart with many artists, writers and producers unable to access the support they need need to sustain their practice buff.ly/3YOY4iQ

Chen's book is the first to bring the concept of animacy together with queer of color scholarship, critical animal studies, and disability theory. uk.bookshop.org/a/1484/9780822…

Had the terrorist attack witnessed in Lebanon in the past 48hrs occurred in Europe, western media would be following victims, telling the story of a boy who lost an eye, a girl who lost her life... but these are only brown people, so they celebrate Israel's ingenuity. Repulsive.

Rare and collectable... "Under Campbell’s fascinated scrutiny reality is as provisional as thought." aye-ayebooks.com/dir/product/st…

Israel killed 119 Palestinians in Gaza in the past 72 hours.

Hundreds of International Publishers Demand Frankfurt Book Fair Cut Ties with Israel publishersforpalestine.org/2024/09/23/pub…

An incisive analyst of the personal and public costs of remaining committed to the ideal and practice of democracy. aye-ayebooks.com/dir/product/so…

To clarify the relationship or non-relation between the Minimalist feature of the drone and musical meaning, three drone-related works are discussed with respect to their relative proximity to, or distance from, language and/or speech. aye-ayebooks.com/dir/product/su…

Good piece in The Skinny about Arika's Episode 11 programme which kicks off today and will be at Tramway until Sunday 👇 🔴🔴Arika🔴🔴

The Radical Bookfair 2024 organised by Red and Black Clydeside is around the corner. December 7th. Get it in the diary! 🟥⬛

Finally got this list up on our bookshop dot org page for Episode 11, for those who couldn't make it, or who want to catch up on the reading at their leisure. 🔴🔴Arika🔴🔴 uk.bookshop.org/lists/arika-ep…