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Constructing a Nervous System
cultural Reckonings
2022 || Paperback || Margo Jefferson || Granta
The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and acclaimed author of Negroland boldly and brilliantly fuses cultural analysis and memoir to probe race, class, family and art. Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female body could be - as incarnated by trailblazing Black dancers and athletes - Harriet Beecher Stowe's Topsy reimagined in the artworks of Kara Walker, white supremacy in the novels of Willa Cather, and more, this breathtakingly...
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Novelist as a Vocation
2022 || Hardcover || Haruki Murakami || Harvill
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels.
Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the sparks of creativity that inspire other writers...
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On Being Ill
2021 || Paperback || Virginia Woolf e.a. || uitgeverij HetMoet
The subtle complexities of Virginia Woolf’s essay ‘On Being Ill’ will no doubt continue to be resonant for a new generation of readers today.
Certainly for both Woolf and Plath, the politics of illness are never far away.
“Illness”, Woolf writes, “makes us disinclined for the long campaigns that prose extracts”.
On Being Ill is a valuable book for everybody who wants to connect with illness through art and literature, and look at it from a different perspective. With the poignan...
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The lines of landscape
2019 || Paperback || Niña Weijers e.a. || Uitgeverij Architectura & Natura
The Anthropocene Reviewed (Heruitgave)
essays on a Human-Centered Planet
2023 || Paperback || John Green || Dutton
“Masterful. The Anthropocene Reviewed is a beautiful, timely book about the human condition—and a timeless reminder to pay attention to your attention.” —Adam Grant, #1 bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast Re:Thinking
The instant #1 bestseller from John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down, is now available in paperback with two brand-new essays!
“Gloriously personal and life-affirming. The perfect book for right now.” —People
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Post-Comics
2020 || Paperback || Sébastien Conard || het balanseer
‘Post-comics are much more than just another way of making or telling comics. What post-comics are doing is transferring the art of comics to different fields, different contexts, if not different artistic, cultural, technological and industrial worlds. These new environments may challenge post-comics the same way they themselves have challenged their initial comics setting.’ Jan Baetens
Coproduction with KASK School of Arts