en-US Wed, 09 Apr 2025 04:22:06 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 22317579 384 Ágota Kristóf 8806219308 Michael 5 italiano 4.34 1991
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Balle is hypnotic and masterful in her remixing of the endless recursive day, creating curious little folds of time and foreshadowings: her flashbacks light up inside the text like old flash bulbs.

The first volume’s gravitational pull―a force inverse to its constriction―has the effect of a strong tranquilizer, but a drug under which your powers of observation only grow sharper and more acute. Give in to the book's logic (its minute movements, its thrilling shifts, its slant wit, its slowing of time) and its spell is utterly intoxicating.

Solvej Balle’s seven-volume novel wrings enthralling and magical new dimensions from time and its hapless, mortal subjects. As one Danish reviewer beautifully put it, Balle’s fiction consists of writing that listens. “Reading her is like being caressed by language itself.”]]> 160 Solvej Balle 0811237257 Michael 0 to-read 3.91 2020
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]]> 18457058 Per decenni abbiamo guardato a quel periodo come al retroterra ideale, etico e storico della cultura antifascista della nazione. Ma una simile ricostruzione, mescolando celebrazione e rimozione, ha davvero raccontato i fatti per come si sono svolti? Oppure ha finito per alimentare una "vulgata" che ha resistito per anni sia alle crepe del tempo, sia alle domande scomode che gli studiosi hanno cominciato a porsi? Con un libro provocatorio sin dal titolo, Gianni Oliva racconta un altro 8 settembre: il giorno del silenzio, silenzio della morale, della ragione, della volontà.
Anche là dove brulicava la confusione di soldati che si muovevano senz'ordini o di cittadini che arraffavano nei depositi abbandonati, la scena era dominata dalla paralisi delle energie e dall'esaurimento psicologico. Ricostruendo ora per ora gli eventi drammatici del 1943-45 che "sconvolsero" l'Italia, Oliva racconta di un'atmosfera antieroica, dove l'elemento dominante fu in larga misura quello dell'attesa, "eterna psicologia italiana che aspetta dagli stranieri la salvezza" scriverà Piero Calamandrei.
Fu infatti la letteratura del dopoguerra - ancora prima che la storiografia - a maturare una lucida e concreta consapevolezza di quanto accaduto e a elaborare una memoria "più veritiera": scrittori e intellettuali come Cesare Pavese, Beppe Fenoglio, Curzio Malaparte, Mario Tobino, Corrado Alvaro, Italo Calvino fissarono con realismo tenace i tratti salienti di una frattura etica e generazionale. Agli occhi del lettore contemporaneo, che non interpreta più i fatti con la sola lente deformante dell'ideologia, sono loro i testimoni "dissacranti" di una pagina livida e amara del nostro passato.
Per questo dobbiamo continuare a domandarci se la Resistenza è stata davvero un'esperienza palingenetica della nostra storia o non, piuttosto, l'alibi attraverso cui l'Italia e gli italiani hanno evitato di fare i conti con le proprie responsabilità. Ma non solo: la nostra democrazia repubblicana è ancora abbastanza solida per non avere più bisogno di legittimazioni storiche? Oppure è così disorientata e confusa proprio perché si è fondata su legittimazioni estremamente fragili? Sulla base di queste premesse Gianni Oliva ridisegna con scrupolo e attenzione i termini di un dibattito storiografico e culturale che non smette di alimentare accese polemiche e sterili contrapposizioni ideologiche. Che, come sempre accade, allontanano dalla verità.]]> 204 Gianni Oliva 880462700X Michael 0 to-read 4.00 2013
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]]> 36141000 178 Alain Mabanckou 8896538904 Michael 0 to-read 3.57 2006
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]]> 16004181
Vanja skickas till det avlägsna samhället Amatka. De människor hon möter där ruskar om i hennes sorg och ensamhet. Hon gör häpnadsväckande upptäckter, som förändrar inte bara henne, personligen. I en instabil värld kan en förändring spridas hur långt som helst.

Amatka är Karin Tidbecks makalöst välskrivna debutroman. Tidigare har hon utkommit med novellsamlingen Vem är Arvid Pekon?.]]> 224 Karin Tidbeck 9186843540 Michael 0 to-read 3.77 2012
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]]> 104662377 510 Giordano Ferrari 234308422X Michael 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 94654 Coldness and Cruelty, Gilles Deleuze provides a rigorous and informed philosophical examination of the work of the late 19th-century German novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Deleuze's essay, certainly the most profound study yet produced on the relations between sadism and masochism, seeks to develop and explain Masoch's "peculiar way of 'desexualizing' love while at the same time sexualizing the entire history of humanity." He shows that masochism is something far more subtle and complex than the enjoyment of pain, that masochism has nothing to do with sadism; their worlds do not communicate, just as the genius of those who created them - Masoch and Sade - lie stylistically, philosophically, and politically poles a part. Venus in Furs, the most famous of all of Masoch's novels was written in 1870 and belongs to an unfinished cycle of works that Masoch entitled The Heritage of Cain. The cycle was to treat a series of themes including love, war, and death. The present work is about love. Although the entire constellation of symbols that has come to characterize the masochistic syndrome can be found here - fetishes, whips, disguises, fur-clad women, contracts, humiliations, punishment, and always the volatile presence of a terrible coldness - these do not eclipse the singular power of Masoch's eroticism.]]> 296 Gilles Deleuze 0942299558 Michael 0 to-read 4.06 1967
author: Gilles Deleuze
name: Michael
average rating: 4.06
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]]> 33917107
On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible: the election of Donald Trump as president. Against all predictions, one of the most-disliked presidential candidates in history had swept the electoral college, elevating a man with open contempt for democratic norms and institutions to the height of power.

Timothy Snyder is one of the most celebrated historians of the Holocaust. In his books Bloodlands and Black Earth, he has carefully dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. With Twenty Lessons, Snyder draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first. As he writes, “Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism and communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.��

Twenty Lessons is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.]]> 127 Timothy Snyder 0804190119 Michael 0 to-read 4.24 2017
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]]> 60436678 0 Luciano. Berio 8822261100 Michael 0 currently-reading 0.0
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]]> 16054161
Tidbeck is a rising star in their native country, having published a collection there in Swedish, won a prestigious literary grant, and just sold their first novel to Sweden’s largest publisher. A graduate of the iconic Clarion Writer’s Workshop at the University of California, San Diego, in 2010, their publication history includes Weird Tales, Shimmer Magazine, Unstuck Annual and the anthology Odd.]]> 142 Karin Tidbeck 0985790423 Michael 0 currently-reading 4.08 2011
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]]> 210223811 Two graduate students must set aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul, perhaps at the cost of their own.

Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality—her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world—that is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.

Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands, and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams. Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the same conclusion.]]> 400 R.F. Kuang Michael 0 to-read 4.12 2025
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]]> 123013011 ���ձ�> 364 Porpora Marcasciano 1978835795 Michael 0 to-read 4.40
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]]> 62919847 A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.

Gracetown, Florida
June 1950

Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie’s journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory.

Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort to him after the loss of his mother has become a window to the truth of what happens at the reformatory. Boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, but the haints Robbie sees hint at worse things. Through his friends Redbone and Blue, Robbie is learning not just the rules but how to survive. Meanwhile, Gloria is rallying every family member and connection in Florida to find a way to get Robbie out before it’s too late.

The Reformatory is a haunting work of historical fiction written as only American Book Award–winning author Tananarive Due could, by piecing together the life of the relative her family never spoke of and bringing his tragedy and those of so many others at the infamous Dozier School for Boys to the light in this riveting novel.]]> 576 Tananarive Due 1982188340 Michael 0 to-read 4.44 2023
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]]> 39874447 ��
In this second edition of his popular guidebook, Paul Silvia offers fresh advice to help you overcome barriers to writing and use your time more productively. After addressing some common excuses and bad habits, he provides practical strategies to motivate students, professors, researchers, and other academics to become better and more prolific writers. Silvia draws from his own experience in psychology to explain how to write, submit, and revise academic work, from journal articles to books, all without sacrificing evenings, weekends, and vacations. The tips and strategies in this second edition have been updated to apply to academic writing in most disciplines. Also new to this edition is a chapter on writing grant and fellowship proposals.]]> 145 Paul J. Silvia 1433829738 Michael 4 4.11 2007
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average rating: 4.11
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rating: 4
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]]> 13456414
In this haunting existential novella, author, philosopher, and ecologist Steven L. Peck explores a subversive vision of eternity, taking the reader on a journey through the afterlife of a world where everything everyone believed in turns out to be wrong.]]> 110 Steven L. Peck 098374842X Michael 5 4.17 2011
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name: Michael
average rating: 4.17
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]]> 125076611
The period from 1933 to 1943 was one of the darkest and most chaotic in human history, as the Second World War unfolded with unthinkable cruelty. It was also a crucial decade in the dramatic, intersecting lives of some of history’s greatest philosophers. There were four women, in particular, whose parallel ideas would come to dominate the twentieth century—at once in necessary dialogue and in striking contrast with one another.

Simone de Beauvoir, already in a deep emotional and intellectual partnership with Jean-Paul Sartre, was laying the foundations for nothing less than the future of feminism. Born Alisa Rosenbaum in Saint Petersburg, Ayn Rand immigrated to the United States in 1926 and was honing one of the most politically influential voices of the twentieth century. Her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged would reach the hearts and minds of millions of Americans in the decades to come, becoming canonical libertarian texts that continue to echo today among Silicon Valley’s tech elite. Hannah Arendt was developing some of today’s most important liberal ideas, culminating with the publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism and her arrival as a peerless intellectual celebrity. Perhaps the greatest thinker of all was a classmate of Beauvoir�� Simone Weil, who turned away from fame to devote herself entirely to refugee aid and the resistance movement during the war. Ultimately, in 1943, she would starve to death in England, a martyr and true saint in the eyes of many.

Few authors can synthesize gripping storytelling with sophisticated philosophy as Wolfram Eilenberger does. The Visionaries tells the story of four singular philosophers—indomitable women who were refugees and resistance fighters—each putting forward a vision of a truly free and open society at a time of authoritarianism and war.]]> 399 Wolfram Eilenberger 0593297466 Michael 0 to-read 3.79 2020
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]]> 208931300 An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family—but especially love—from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.]]> 454 Sally Rooney 0374602638 Michael 0 to-read 3.88 2024
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]]> 19661852 ��
“A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide to learning new languages.”—Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist and author of the ��New York Times ��bestseller�� Guitar Zero
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At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn’t learn them in school—who does? Rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources—and here he wants to show others what he’s discovered.
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Starting with pronunciation, you’ll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds. You’ll retrain your tongue to produce those sounds accurately, using tricks from opera singers and actors. Next, you’ll begin to tackle words, and connect sounds and spellings to imagery rather than translations, which will enable you to think in a foreign language. And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you’ll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day.��
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This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.]]> 326 Gabriel Wyner Michael 5 4.07 2014
author: Gabriel Wyner
name: Michael
average rating: 4.07
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]]> 43317482 251 Carmen Maria Machado 1644450038 Michael 3 4.41 2019
author: Carmen Maria Machado
name: Michael
average rating: 4.41
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rating: 3
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]]> 18906281 The complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial.“An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numinous, and prophetic.”��—The New York TimesThe Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka’s stories, from the classic tales such as “The Metamorphosis,�� “In the Penal Colony,�� and “A Hunger Artist�� to shorter pieces and fragments that Max Brod, Kafka’s literary executor, released after Kafka’s death. With the exception of his three novels, the whole of Kafka’s narrative work is included in this volume.����“[Kafka] spoke for millions in their new unease; a century after his birth, he seems the last holy writer, and the supreme fabulist of modern man’s cosmic predicament.�� —from the Foreword by John Updike]]> 514 Franz Kafka 0307829456 Michael 5 4.26 1911
author: Franz Kafka
name: Michael
average rating: 4.26
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rating: 5
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]]> 11336254 664 Peter Sloterdijk 1584351047 Michael 0 to-read 4.32 1998
author: Peter Sloterdijk
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]]> 60585628
"Each precious thing I show you in this book is a holy relic from the night we both perished-the night when I combed you from my hair and watered the moon with your blood.

You've lost a lot of blood . . ."]]> 209 Eric LaRocca 1088025757 Michael 3 3.25 2022
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average rating: 3.25
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]]> 41976815 The Naked Woman was originally published in 1950, critics doubted a woman writer could be responsible for its shocking erotic content. In this searing critique of Enlightenment values, fantastic themes are juxtaposed with brutal depictions of misogyny and violence, and frantically build to a fiery conclusion.

Finally available to an English-speaking audience, Armonía Somers will resonate with readers of Clarice Lispector, Djuna Barnes, and Leonora Carrington.]]> 168 Armonía Somers 1936932431 Michael 0 to-read 3.79 1950
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]]> 2125233 400 Umberto Eco Michael 0 to-read 3.99 1964
author: Umberto Eco
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]]> 209357442
A sinister blues recording pressed on vinyl in blood conjures lethal shadows with its unearthly wails. In order to rescue Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn traverses the shifting horrors of the aptly named Dread Island. In the weird Wild West, Reverand Jebidiah Mercer rides into a possessed town to confront the unspeakable in the crawling sky. Legendary detective C. Auguste Dupin uncovers the gruesome secrets of both the blue lightning bug and the Necronomicon.

Exploring the darkest corners of the human psyche, here is a lethally entertaining journey through Joe Lansdale’s twisted landscape, where ancient evils lurk and sanity hangs by a rapidly fraying thread.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale
“The Bleeding Shadow��
Dread Island
“The Gruesome Affair of the Electric Blue Lightning��
“The Tall Grass��
"The Case of the Stalking Shadow"
“The Crawling Sky��
"Starlight, Eyes Bright"
In the Mad Mountains]]> 256 Joe R. Lansdale 1616964243 Michael 3 4.01 2024
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]]> 18003327 Iliade e nell'Odissea, gli eroi leggendari che hanno combattuto le battaglie più dure e vinto i nemici più agguerriti non temono di mostrarsi in lacrime. Per disperazione, dolore, rabbia, amore, nostalgia, essi piangono a viso aperto. Senza risparmiarsi. Senza mai provare vergogna. Singhiozzano, gridano, tremano, piangono fino a soffrire la fame, piangono per saziarsi del pianto. Perché in quelle lacrime, come racconta Matteo Nucci in un libro che è viaggio, studio e romanzo, risiede il germe di una passione indomabile. Soltanto gli uomini che hanno la forza di non nascondere le proprie debolezze possono vincere il nemico più odioso: la paura della propria mortalità.]]> 216 Matteo Nucci 8806214292 Michael 0 to-read 3.72 2013
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]]> 34227437 ��
In Deep Refrains , Michael Gallope draws together the writings of Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari in order to revisit the age-old question of music’s ineffability from a modern perspective. For these nineteenth- and twentieth-century European philosophers, music’s ineffability is a complex phenomenon that engenders an intellectually productive sense of perplexity. Through careful examination of their historical contexts and philosophical orientations, close attention to their use of language, and new interpretations of musical compositions that proved influential for their work, Deep Refrains forges the first panoptic view of their writings on music. Gallope concludes that music’s ineffability is neither a conservative phenomenon nor a pious call to silence. Instead, these philosophers ask us to think through the ways in which music’s stunning force might address, in an ethical fashion, intricate philosophical questions specific to the modern world.
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]]> 162570
Discussing expressionism / Ernst Bloch
Realism in the balance / Georg Lukacs
Against Georg Luckacs / Bertolt Brecht
Conversations with Brecht / Walter Benjamin
Letters to Walter Benjamin / Theodor Adorno
Reply / Walter Benjamin
Reconciliation under duress ; Commitment / Theodor Adorno

Reflections in conclusion / Fredric Jameson]]> 220 Theodor W. Adorno 184467570X Michael 4 reading-group 4.13 1977
author: Theodor W. Adorno
name: Michael
average rating: 4.13
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rating: 4
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]]> 219318577 170 Maura Gancitano 8806263137 Michael 0 to-read 3.70
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]]> 212299732 96 Amelia Rosselli 8892825488 Michael 0 to-read 3.00
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]]> 60424102 Q è l'esordio narrativo del rivoluzionario collettivo ora noto come Wu Ming.]]> 848 Luther Blissett 8806252534 Michael 0 to-read 4.16 1999
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name: Michael
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]]> 1762672 Roland Barthes 0809083809 Michael 0 to-read 5.00 1971
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]]> 28408968 232 Lorenzo Renzi 8815237801 Michael 0 to-read 3.20
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]]> 20813135 Ich denke, also bin ich109 Jahre nach dem Ende des Dritten Weltkriegs leben nur noch fünf Menschen. Sie hausen in unterirdischen Stollen, immer am Rande des Verhungerns, und werden jede Minute ihres Lebens von einem Supercomputer gefoltert, der ein Bewusstsein erlangt hat �� und mit ihm unendlichen Hass auf seine Erbauer. Es gibt nur einen einzigen Ausweg für die gequälten Menschen �� doch welcher von ihnen wird stark genug sein, ihn zu wählen? Die Kurzgeschichte „Ich muss schreien und habe keinen Mund�� erscheint als exklusives E-Book Only bei Heyne und ist zusammen mit weiteren Stories von Harlan Ellison auch in dem Sammelband „Ich muss schreien und habe keinen Mund�� enthalten. Sie umfasst ca. 22 Buchseiten.]]> 20 Harlan Ellison Michael 0 to-read 3.72 1967
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]]> 59794400
Largier illuminates how devotional practices are invested in the creation of possibilities, and this investment has been a key element in a wide range of experimental engagements in literature and art from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, and most recently in forms of "new materialism." Read as a history of the senses and emotions, the book argues that mystical and devotional practices have long been invested in the modulating and reconfiguring of sensation, affects, and thoughts. Read as a book about practices of figuration, it questions ordinary protocols of interpretation in the humanities, and the priority given to a hermeneutic understanding of texts and cultural artifacts.]]> 320 Niklaus Largier 1503631052 Michael 0 to-read 3.00
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]]> 35930393
Music at Hand explores these questions with a distinctive blend of music theory, psychology, and philosophy. Practicing an instrument, of course, builds bodily habits and skills. But it also develops connections between auditory and motor regions in a player's brain. These multi-sensory links are grounded in particular instrumental interfaces. They reflect the ways that an instrument converts action into sound, and the ways that it coordinates physical and tonal space. Ultimately, these connections can shape listening, improvisation, or composition. This means that pianos, guitars, horns, and bells are not simply tools for making notes. Such technologies, as creative prostheses, also open up possibilities for musical action, perception, and cognition.

Throughout the book, author Jonathan De Souza examines diverse musical case studies-from Beethoven to blues harmonica, from Bach to electronic music-introducing novel methods for the analysis of body-instrument interaction. A companion website supports these analytical discussions with audiovisual examples, including motion-capture videos and performances by the author. Written in lucid prose, Music at Hand offers substantive insights for music scholars, while remaining accessible to non-specialist readers. This wide-ranging book will engage music theorists and historians, ethnomusicologists, organologists, composers, and performers-but also psychologists, philosophers, media theorists, and anyone who is curious about how musical experience is embodied and conditioned by technology.]]> 205 Jonathan De Souza 0190271132 Michael 5 4.75
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Seriously excellent work. To anyone with an interest in composition, pedagogy, phenomenology, and music in general, I absolutely recommend this surprisingly approachable book.
]]> 24777102 160 Jhumpa Lahiri 8823510120 Michael 4 3.84 2015
author: Jhumpa Lahiri
name: Michael
average rating: 3.84
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rating: 4
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]]> 765336 Cinema 2: The Time-Image brings to completion Gilles Deleuze's work on the theoretical implications of the cinematographic image. In Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, Deleuze proposed a new way to understand narrative cinema, based on Henri Bergson's notion of the movement-image and C.S. Pierce's classification of images and signs. In Cinema 2, he explains why, since World War II, time has come to dominate film: the fragment or solitary image, in supplanting narrative cinema's rational development of events, illustrates this new significance of time.

Deleuze ascribes this shift to the condition of postwar Europe: the situations and spaces 'we no longer know how to describe'—buildings deserted but inhabited, cities undergoing demolition or reconstruction—and the new race of characters who emerged from this rubble, mutants who 'saw rather than acted.' Deleuze discusses the films of Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini, Godard, Resnais, Antonioni, Pasolini, Rohmer, Ophuls, and many others, suggesting that contemporary cinema, far from being dead, is only beginning to find new ways to capture time in the image.]]> 362 Gilles Deleuze 0816616779 Michael 0 to-read 4.18 1985
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]]> 7726554 121 Leonardo Sciascia Michael 0 to-read 3.88 1974
author: Leonardo Sciascia
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average rating: 3.88
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]]> 38917002 237 Italo Calvino Michael 0 to-read 3.67 1984
author: Italo Calvino
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]]> 57635153
Or so the story goes. In truth, no one has ever seen the supposed Duncan Tape, presumably because it doesn’t exist. It’s a ghost story perpetuated on the forums and chat rooms of the internet, another handful of bytes scattered across the Information Superhighway at blistering 56K modem speeds.

For Robby and his friends, an urban legend is the last thing on their minds when a boring Friday night presents a chance to download porn. But the short clip they watch turns out to be something far more graphic and disturbing, and in the coming days, they’ll learn even the most outlandish urban legends possess a shred of truth…]]> 132 Todd Keisling 1943720584 Michael 3 3.77 2020
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name: Michael
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2020
rating: 3
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]]> 142392376 Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of all-new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the chilling reality of injustice that haunts our nation.

A cop begins seeing huge, blinking eyes where the headlights of cars should be that tell him who to pull over. Two freedom riders take a bus ride that leaves them stranded on a lonely road in Alabama where several unsettling somethings await them. A young girl dives into the depths of the Earth in search of the demon that killed her parents. These are just a few of the worlds of Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele’s anthology of all-new horror stories by Black writers. Featuring an introduction by Peele and an all-star roster of beloved writers and new voices, Out There Screaming is a master class in horror, and—like his spine-chilling films—its stories prey on everything we think we know about our world . . . and redefine what it means to be afraid.

Featuring stories by: Erin E. Adams, Violet Allen, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Maurice Broaddus, Chesya Burke, P. Djèlí Clark, Ezra Claytan Daniels, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, N. K. Jemisin, Justin C. Key, L. D. Lewis, Nnedi Okorafor, Tochi Onyebuchi, Rebecca Roanhorse, Nicole D. Sconiers, Rion Amilcar Scott, Terence Taylor, and Cadwell Turnbull.]]> 387 Jordan Peele 059324379X Michael 0 to-read 3.77 2023
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]]> 120995919 Tonight It’s a World We Bury explores a range of tendencies central to black metal and uncovers their potential as critiques of capitalism.

Tonight It's a World We Bury is a radical re-writing of the history and politics of black metal music.

Challenging the commonly-held perception that black metal is a genre of the right �� full of wannabe Vikings, Nazis, skinheads and other unsavoury characters �� Tonight It's a World We Bury looks at an array of black metal artists to re-affirm the genre as radically anticapitalist, revolutionary and left-wing.

Utilizing an eclectic range of black metal bands, including Darkthrone, Burzum, Liturgy and Deathspell Omega, and taking in the works of Marx, Nietzsche, Deleuze and more, Tonight It's a World We Bury is a book on black metal like no other.]]> 202 Bill Peel 1914420373 Michael 3 metal-punk-noise 3.74
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]]> 189610 356 György Lukács 0262120356 Michael 0 to-read 4.08 1923
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name: Michael
average rating: 4.08
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]]> 211424 English, German (translation) 176 Karl Korsch 0853451893 Michael 4 3.87 1923
author: Karl Korsch
name: Michael
average rating: 3.87
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rating: 4
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]]> 60209475 A new work of philosophical suspense.

Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life. She is resigned to the mundane rituals of old age, until things start to slip. Before her longtime partner passed away years earlier, provisions were made, unbeknownst to her, for a room in a unique long-term care residence, where Penny finds herself after one too many “incidents.��

Initially, surrounded by peers, conversing, eating, sleeping, looking out at the beautiful woods that surround the house, all is well. She even begins to paint again. But as the days start to blur together, Penny—with a growing sense of unrest and distrust—starts to lose her grip on the passage of time and on her place in the world. Is she succumbing to the subtly destructive effects of aging, or is she an unknowing participant in something more unsettling?

At once compassionate and uncanny, told in spare, hypnotic prose, Iain Reid’s genre-defying third novel explores questions of conformity, art, productivity, relationships, and what, ultimately, it means to grow old.]]> 289 Iain Reid 1982169354 Michael 4 3.76 2022
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average rating: 3.76
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]]> 60222807 A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes.

After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed, Viv is hanging up her sword for the last time.

The battle-weary orc aims to start fresh, opening the first ever coffee shop in the city of Thune. But old and new rivals stand in the way of success—not to mention the fact that no one has the faintest idea what coffee actually is.

If Viv wants to put the blade behind her and make her plans a reality, she won't be able to go it alone.

But the true rewards of the uncharted path are the travelers you meet along the way. And whether drawn together by ancient magic, flaky pastry, or a freshly brewed cup, they may become partners, family, and something deeper than she ever could have dreamed.]]> 296 Travis Baldree Michael 4 4.33 2022
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name: Michael
average rating: 4.33
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]]> 61884782 A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down.

They’ll scare you straight to hell.

Welcome to Neverton, Montana: home to a God-fearing community with a heart of gold.

Nestled high up in the mountains is Camp Damascus, the self-proclaimed “most effective�� gay conversion camp in the country. Here, a life free from sin awaits. But the secret behind that success is anything but holy.]]> 246 Chuck Tingle 1250874629 Michael 0 to-read 3.90 2023
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]]> 62610142 216 Junji Ito 882263585X Michael 3 4.05 2022
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average rating: 4.05
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rating: 3
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]]> 60656815
“We might think we see a mountain while it was a war; a forest can actually be an engine; a monument to workers might reflect the violence of a colonial empire.�� —extracted from Mussolini’s Nature

In this first environmental history of Italian fascism, Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo, and Wilko Graf von Hardenberg reveal that nature and fascist rhetoric are inextricable. Mussolini’s Nature explores fascist political ecologies, or rather the practices and narratives through which the regime constructed imaginary and material ecologies functional to its political project. The book does not pursue the ghost of a green Mussolini by counting how many national parks were created during the regime or how many trees planted. Instead, the reader is trained to recognize fascist political ecology in Mussolini’s speeches, reclaimed landscapes, policies of economic self-sufficiency, propaganda documentaries, reforested areas, and in the environmental transformation of its colonial holdings.

The authors conclude with an examination of the role of fascist landscapes in the country’s postwar Mussolini’s nature is still visible today through plaques, monuments, toponomy, and the shapes of landscapes. This original, and surprisingly intimate, environmental history is not merely a chronicle of conservation in fascist Italy but also an invitation to consider the socioecological connections of all political projects.]]> 208 Marco Armiero 0262544717 Michael 0 to-read 3.29
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]]> 23995368 An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.

Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end.

Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.]]> 336 Emily St. John Mandel 0804172447 Michael 4 4.14 2014
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name: Michael
average rating: 4.14
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rating: 4
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]]> 46041168 A New York Times Notable Book (2020)
A Guardian Best Book of 2020
A Literary Hub Favorite Book of 2020

The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse—by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals—propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village.

Like Roberto Bolano’s 2666��or Faulkner’s greatest novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled with mythology and violence—real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it’s a world that becomes more terrifying and more terrifyingly real the deeper you explore it.]]> 224 Fernanda Melchor 0811228037 Michael 0 to-read 3.93 2017
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average rating: 3.93
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]]> 9687560 284 Lemony Snicket 8884516358 Michael 3 4.05 2003
author: Lemony Snicket
name: Michael
average rating: 4.05
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]]> 60677843 The Black Maybe is one of those books.

This volume collects ten of his best tales in English for the first time, ranging from weird fiction like ‘In the Snow, Sleeping��, in which a couple’s vacation to a health spa erodes into a surreal nightmare, to folk horror like ‘Return to the Midnight School��, in which the things that emerge from the soil in one rural farming community are bizarre and horrific, to Lovecraft-inspired tales like ‘Multiplied by Zero��, written as a wry travelogue in which a man sets out on a deadly holiday tour to explore Lovecraftian landscapes. And in the title story ‘The Black Maybe��, which Steve Rasnic Tem calls ‘one of the weirdest tales I’ve read in years��, a girl and her family escape the bustling city to experience farm life, only to discover with unimaginable horror the truth of what is really being harvested there.

These stories are thrilling, frightening, sometimes blackly humorous, and totally unlike anything you have read before. As Tem writes in the introduction, ‘Given both the range and originality of his dark fiction, Attila Veres�� career is one to watch.�� After reading this book, we have no doubt that readers will agree.]]> 310 Attila Veres 1954321694 Michael 4 4.18 2022
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]]> 59924
In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately grasps the power George wields. Soon George must preserve reality itself as Dr. Haber becomes adept at manipulating George's dreams for his own purposes.

The Lathe of Heaven is an eerily prescient novel from award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin that masterfully addresses the dangers of power and humanity's self-destructiveness, questioning the nature of reality itself. It is a classic of the science fiction genre.]]> 176 Ursula K. Le Guin 0060512741 Michael 0 to-read 4.12 1971
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name: Michael
average rating: 4.12
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]]> 37510662
We don’t get visitors. Not out here. We never have.

In Iain Reid’s second haunting, philosophical puzzle of a novel, set in the near-future, Junior and Henrietta live a comfortable, solitary life on their farm, far from the city lights, but in close quarters with each other. One day, a stranger from the city arrives with alarming Junior has been randomly selected to travel far away from the farm...very far away. The most unusual part? Arrangements have already been made so that when he leaves, Henrietta won't have a chance to miss him, because she won't be left alone—not even for a moment. Henrietta will have company. Familiar company.

Told in Reid’s sharp and evocative style, Foe examines the nature of domestic relationships, self-determination, and what it means to be (or not to be) a person. An eerily entrancing page-turner, it churns with unease and suspense from the first words to its shocking finale.]]> 261 Iain Reid 150112742X Michael 3 3.70 2018
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average rating: 3.70
book published: 2018
rating: 3
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]]> 58724626 From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher."

When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruravia.

What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.

Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.]]> 165 T. Kingfisher 1250830753 Michael 0 to-read 3.86 2022
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]]> 59705725
Much to the chagrin of J, the cats won't get attached to him.

The difference between fear and comedy is paper thin. Here's a cat comedy from a horror manga author.]]> 120 Junji Ito Michael 4 He’s just like me 4.28 2009
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name: Michael
average rating: 4.28
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rating: 4
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He’s just like me
]]> 9832786 238 Lemony Snicket 8884515165 Michael 3 4.01 2002
author: Lemony Snicket
name: Michael
average rating: 4.01
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rating: 3
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]]> 252648 144 Jean-François Lyotard 0816611734 Michael 3 reading-group 3.84 1979
author: Jean-François Lyotard
name: Michael
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1979
rating: 3
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]]> 13238271
“The first time I heard rock music it was really exciting. I felt that this new music and vibe was really me. I remember going to bed and having dreams that I was performing this music and visualizing myself on stage, way before it actually happened�� What always appealed to me about rock music is the feeling of freedom, that I could finally be who I wanted to be and sing the music that I felt in my heart. Some black people that I met in the music industry felt that we could be stronger and better empowered if we all stayed within in the same box, but I had always relished the fact that I never belonged to any cliques, or any scenes…”—Skin, Skunk Anansie

“I wanted to find other black women like me: metal, hardcore, and punk fans and musicians that were rabid about the music and culture and adamant about asserting their rightful place as black women within those scenes. I wanted to find other women who put aside the cultural baggage that dictates that we must listen to certain musical styles, and simply enjoy the music that influenced us, not just as black women, but as individuals who grew up in an era when, thanks to technology, a large variety of music is accessible and available to everyone. I found many black women and have shared their stories, but I also realize there is still a lot of work to be done.”—Laina Dawes

CONTENTS:

“Who Put That Shaven-Headed Black Woman on the Stage?�� Foreword by Skin

Introduction, by Laina Dawes

I. Canadian Steel

II. Metal Can Save Your Life (or at Least Your Sanity)

III. I’m Here Because We Started It!

IV. So You Think You’re White?

V. “The Only One�� Syndrome

VI. Too Black, Too Metal, and All Woman

VII. The Lingering Stench of Racism in Metal

VIII. Remove the Barricades and Stagedive!

Epilogue

Appendix: “What Are You Doing Here?”—The Survey]]> 208 Laina Dawes 1935950053 Michael 0 to-read 3.77 2012
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]]> 433567 [sic �� ed.], a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women-thin, straight lines-are the lowliest of shapes, and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status.
Through strange occurrences that bring him into contact with a host of geometric forms, Square has adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions) and ultimately entertains thoughts of visiting a land of four dimensions—a revolutionary idea for which he is returned to his two-dimensional world. Charmingly illustrated by the author, Flatland is not only fascinating reading, it is still a first-rate fictional introduction to the concept of the multiple dimensions of space. "Instructive, entertaining, and stimulating to the imagination." �� Mathematics Teacher.]]> 96 Edwin A. Abbott 048627263X Michael 4 3.82 1884
author: Edwin A. Abbott
name: Michael
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1884
rating: 4
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]]> 4617457 268 Reza Negarestani 0980544009 Michael 0 to-read 3.87 2008
author: Reza Negarestani
name: Michael
average rating: 3.87
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]]> 992345 424 Niklas Luhmann 0804739072 Michael 0 to-read 4.00 1995
author: Niklas Luhmann
name: Michael
average rating: 4.00
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]]> 13166700
The book follows the form of Roget's Thesaurus. The back section lists, alphabetically, 99 popular ingredients, and suggests classic and less well known flavour matches for each. The front section contains an entry for every flavour match listed in the back section and is organised into 16 flavour themes such a Bramble & Hedge, Green & Grassy, and Earthy. There are 980 entries in all, with 200 recipes and suggestions embedded in the text.

It covers classic pairings such as pork & apple, lamb & apricot, and cucumber & dill; contemporary favourites like chocolate & chilli, and goat's cheese & beetroot; and interesting but unlikely-sounding couples including black pudding & chocolate, lemon & beef, blueberry & mushroom, and watermelon & oyster.

Beautifully packaged, The Flavour Thesaurus is not only a highly useful, and covetable, reference book that will immeasurably improve your cooking - it's the sort of book that might keep you up at night reading.]]> 344 Niki Segnit 160819874X Michael 0 to-read 4.22 2010
author: Niki Segnit
name: Michael
average rating: 4.22
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]]> 55480 320 Alain Robbe-Grillet 080215106X Michael 0 to-read 3.87 1959
author: Alain Robbe-Grillet
name: Michael
average rating: 3.87
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]]> 15682 A Happy Death is a fascinating first sketch for The Outsider, but it can also be seen as a candid self-portrait, drawing on Camus's memories of his youth, travels, and early relationships. It is infused with lyrical descriptions of the sun-drenched Algiers of his childhood - the place where, eventually, Mersault is able to find peace and die 'without anger, without hatred, without regret'.]]> 144 Albert Camus Michael 0 to-read 3.89 1971
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name: Michael
average rating: 3.89
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]]> 23258541
This new translation of Sud e Magia, his 1959 study of ceremonial magic and witchcraft in southern Italy, shows how De Martino is not interested in the question of whether magic is rational or irrational but rather in why it came to be perceived as a problem of knowledge in the first place. Setting his exploration within his wider, pathbreaking theorization of ritual, as well as in the context of his politically sensitive analysis of the global south’s historical encounters with Western science, he presents the development of magic and ritual in Enlightenment Naples as a paradigmatic example of the complex dynamics between dominant and subaltern cultures. Far ahead of its time, Magic is still relevant as anthropologists continue to wrestle with modernity’s relationship with magical thinking.


]]> 224 Ernesto de Martino 099050509X Michael 4 reading-group 4.00 1959
author: Ernesto de Martino
name: Michael
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1959
rating: 4
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]]> 15766600 360 Kier-la Janisse Michael 0 to-read 4.47 2012
author: Kier-la Janisse
name: Michael
average rating: 4.47
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]]> 9681956 238 Lemony Snicket 8884513251 Michael 3 italiano 3.96 2001
author: Lemony Snicket
name: Michael
average rating: 3.96
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rating: 3
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]]> 58659343
Moving through something that only resembles normal life, Miri comes to realize that the life that they had before might be gone. Though Leah is still there, Miri can feel the woman she loves slipping from her grasp.

Our Wives Under The Sea is the debut novel from Julia Armfield, the critically acclaimed author of Salt Slow. It’s a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life there is in the deep deep sea.]]> 240 Julia Armfield 152901722X Michael 0 to-read 3.75 2022
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]]> 43876216 208 Andrea Valle 3832544666 Michael 0 to-read 3.00
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]]> 12913570 327 Elena Ferrante Michael 0 to-read 4.25 2011
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name: Michael
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]]> 22502639
Originally published in 1992.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.]]> 326 Angela Dalle Vacche 0691609225 Michael 3 3.67 1992
author: Angela Dalle Vacche
name: Michael
average rating: 3.67
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rating: 3
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]]> 2031478 330 Angela Dalle Vacche 0292717113 Michael 0 to-read 3.83 2008
author: Angela Dalle Vacche
name: Michael
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2008
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Only after the disappearances of several other impoverished women does Monique hear the rumors. A taloned monster stalks the city’s underground and snatches victims into the dark.

Donna isn’t missing. She was taken.

To save the woman she loves, Monique must descend deeper than the known underground, into a subterranean world of enigmatic cultists and shadowy creatures. But what she finds looms beyond her wildest fears—a darkness that stretches from the dawn of time and across the stars.]]> 116 Hailey Piper 057877979X Michael 0 to-read 3.71 2020
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]]> 75417 Silence of the Lambs, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Candyman, Skin Shows understands the Gothic as a versatile technology, a means of producing monsters that is constantly being rewritten by historically and culturally conditioned fears generated by a shared sense of otherness and difference.
Deploying feminist and queer approaches to the monstrous body, Halberstam views the Gothic as a broad-based cultural phenomenon that supports and sustains the economic, social, and sexual hierarchies of the time. She resists familiar psychoanalytic critiques and cautions against any interpretive attempt to reduce the affective power of the monstrous to a single factor. The nineteenth-century monster is shown, for example, as configuring otherness as an amalgam of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Invoking Foucault, Halberstam describes the history of monsters in terms of its shifting relation to the body and its representations. As a result, her readings of familiar texts are radically new. She locates psychoanalysis itself within the gothic tradition and sees sexuality as a beast created in nineteenth century literature. Excessive interpretability, Halberstam argues, whether in film, literature, or in the culture at large, is the actual hallmark of monstrosity.
]]> 232 J. Jack Halberstam 0822316633 Michael 0 to-read 4.15 1995
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]]> 37975254 218 Rebekah J. Buchanan 1433123916 Michael 0 to-read 4.13
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]]> 61685822 From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, a passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of #MeToo, and of the link between genius and monstrosity.

In this unflinching, deeply personal book that expands on her instantly viral Paris Review essay, What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men? Claire Dederer asks: Can we love the work of Hemingway, Polanski, Naipaul, Miles Davis, or Picasso? Should we love it? Does genius deserve special dispensation? Is male monstrosity the same as female monstrosity? Does art have a mandate to depict the darker elements of the psyche? And what happens if the artist stares too long into the abyss? She explores the audience's relationship with artists from Woody Allen to Michael Jackson, asking: How do we balance our undeniable sense of moral outrage with our equally undeniable love of the work? In a more troubling vein, she wonders if an artist needs to be a monster in order to create something great. And if an artist is also a mother, does one identity inexorably, and fatally, interrupt the other? Highly topical, morally wise, honest to the core, Monsters is certain to incite a conversation about whether and how we can separate artists from their art.]]> 257 Claire Dederer 0525655115 Michael 0 to-read 3.75 2023
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]]> 41966116 192 Lemony Snicket Michael 3 italiano 4.07 2001
author: Lemony Snicket
name: Michael
average rating: 4.07
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rating: 3
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]]> 58371260 416 Missy Robbins 1984857002 Michael 5 cooking
To be honest, I hadn't heard of Missy Robbins before cracking open Pasta. I wanted a comprehensive introduction, and Robbins's book was new, well-reviewed, and on the more affordable side - the recipes themselves were only of secondary interest. The point is, I had no idea what I was doing when I bought Pasta, and working through this book has been a journey. Fresh pasta is now a casual weekday dinner option. I've now made egg and semolina dough countless times but also spinach and espresso doughs because why not? There are dozens of shapes, both hand-shaped and filled, along with the requisite straight cuts like tagliatelle and maccheroncini. I used the word "trofie" in front of an Italian Studies professor and I swear I could see admiration in her eyes. My own trofie maybe still leave something to be desired, but hey, it's a process.

Though the ins and outs of pasta making take up a substantial chunk of the physical book, the descriptions and recipes are what make it really shine. Half of the recipes are regional dishes divided geographically (Italian American and then Northern, Central, and Southern Italy) with the other half dedicated to equally-involved vegetable sides and Missy's own creations. None of the recipes are low effort, but they are absolutely delicious and distinct. I've definitely made compromises - I am several tax brackets away from a personal extruder or white truffle - but I've been impressed if not pleased with everything I've made so far from the book (exactly 41 dishes, many multiple times and with several more on the docket).

So what does this all mean? If this is your first foray into pasta then this book is a wonderful choice, though the dedication necessary to work through it borders on extreme - but the quality of the recipes and the knowledge you'll gain about the wide world of Italian pasta is worth it. For working through shapes, YouTube is will be your best friend (Pasta Grannies in particular, because it's helpful and precious). I've been enthusiastic about this book (my partner might use the word "obsessive") since I first got it and in return I have learned a tremendous amount about pasta - but I've also developed a much deeper appreciation for cheeses (yay caciocavallo, nay fiore sardo) and the miracle of anchovies. I think Bruna would be satisfied. If you're already practiced with making and shaping pasta, then you are that much closer to nailing Missy's brilliant recreations and recipes.

tl;dr: great intro to pasta with fantastic recipes]]> 4.52
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Before picking up this book, I'd only made pasta once and it was a bad time for everyone involved. It was in Milan at a cooking class, and instructor Bruna filled me in diplomatically on all of the ways in which I was a pastaio failure. I had a small crisis when faced with a mass of flour and egg yolks that was supposed to be a dough. My noodles were inconsistent. My ravioli were bloated. I also forgot a layer of ladyfingers for my tiramisu, which dashed any goals of becoming an amateur pâtissier. I needed redemption - for Bruna and for myself.

To be honest, I hadn't heard of Missy Robbins before cracking open Pasta. I wanted a comprehensive introduction, and Robbins's book was new, well-reviewed, and on the more affordable side - the recipes themselves were only of secondary interest. The point is, I had no idea what I was doing when I bought Pasta, and working through this book has been a journey. Fresh pasta is now a casual weekday dinner option. I've now made egg and semolina dough countless times but also spinach and espresso doughs because why not? There are dozens of shapes, both hand-shaped and filled, along with the requisite straight cuts like tagliatelle and maccheroncini. I used the word "trofie" in front of an Italian Studies professor and I swear I could see admiration in her eyes. My own trofie maybe still leave something to be desired, but hey, it's a process.

Though the ins and outs of pasta making take up a substantial chunk of the physical book, the descriptions and recipes are what make it really shine. Half of the recipes are regional dishes divided geographically (Italian American and then Northern, Central, and Southern Italy) with the other half dedicated to equally-involved vegetable sides and Missy's own creations. None of the recipes are low effort, but they are absolutely delicious and distinct. I've definitely made compromises - I am several tax brackets away from a personal extruder or white truffle - but I've been impressed if not pleased with everything I've made so far from the book (exactly 41 dishes, many multiple times and with several more on the docket).

So what does this all mean? If this is your first foray into pasta then this book is a wonderful choice, though the dedication necessary to work through it borders on extreme - but the quality of the recipes and the knowledge you'll gain about the wide world of Italian pasta is worth it. For working through shapes, YouTube is will be your best friend (Pasta Grannies in particular, because it's helpful and precious). I've been enthusiastic about this book (my partner might use the word "obsessive") since I first got it and in return I have learned a tremendous amount about pasta - but I've also developed a much deeper appreciation for cheeses (yay caciocavallo, nay fiore sardo) and the miracle of anchovies. I think Bruna would be satisfied. If you're already practiced with making and shaping pasta, then you are that much closer to nailing Missy's brilliant recreations and recipes.

tl;dr: great intro to pasta with fantastic recipes
]]> 6714608
The themes of the book include the emergence of Italy as the “world’s university�� (Goethe) and “mother of arts�� (Byron), the influence of Dante’s Commedia on Romantic autobiography, and the representation of the Italian body politic as a woman at home and abroad. Luzzi also provides a critical reevaluation of the three crowns of Italian Romantic letters—Ugo Foscolo, Giacomo Leopardi, and Alessandro Manzoni—profoundly influential writers largely undiscovered in Anglo-American criticism. Reaching out to academic and general readers alike, the book offers fresh insights into the influence of Italian literary, cultural, and intellectual traditions on the foreign imagination from the Romantic age to the present.]]> 304 Joseph Luzzi 0300123558 Michael 0 to-read 4.67 2008
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]]> 53968530 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

"Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well told...a worthy successor to its obvious inspiration, Michael Azerrad's 2001 examination of the '80s indie underground, 'Our Band Could Be Your Life.'"--New York Times Book Review

A raucous history of punk, emo, and hardcore’s growing pains during the commercial boom of the early 90s and mid-aughts, following eleven bands as they “sell out�� and find mainstream fame, or break beneath the weight of it all
��
Punk rock found itself at a crossroads in the mid-90’s. After indie favorite Nirvana catapulted into the mainstream with its unexpected phenomenon,��Nevermind, rebellion was suddenly��en vogue. Looking to replicate the band’s success, major record labels set their sights on the underground, and began courting punk’s rising stars. But the DIY punk scene, which had long prided itself on its trademark authenticity and anti-establishment ethos, wasn’t quite ready to let their homegrown acts go without a fight. The result was a schism: those who accepted the cash flow of the majors, and those who defiantly clung to their indie cred.
��
In��Sellout,��seasoned music writer Dan Ozzi chronicles this embattled era in punk. Focusing on eleven prominent bands who made the jump from indie to major,��Sellout��charts the twists and turns of the last “gold rush�� of the music industry, where some groups “sold out�� and rose to surprise super stardom, while others buckled under mounting pressures. Sellout��is both a gripping history of the music industry’s evolution, and a punk rock lover’s guide to the chaotic darlings of the post-grunge era, featuring original interviews and personal stories from members of modern punk’s most (in)famous bands:
Green Day
Jawbreaker
Jimmy Eat World
Blink-182
At the Drive-In
The Donnas
Thursday
The Distillers
My Chemical Romance
Rise Against
Against Me!]]> 400 Dan Ozzi 0358244307 Michael 0 to-read, metal-punk-noise 4.38 2021
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]]> 60784841 Mexican Gothic.

When Jade Nguyen arrives in Vietnam for a visit with her estranged father, she has one goal: survive five weeks pretending to be a happy family in the French colonial house Ba is restoring. She’s always lied to fit in, so if she’s straight enough, Vietnamese enough, American enough, she can get out with the college money he promised.

But the house has other plans. Night after night, Jade wakes up paralyzed. The walls exude a thrumming sound, while bugs leave their legs and feelers in places they don’t belong. She finds curious traces of her ancestors in the gardens they once tended. And at night Jade can’t ignore the ghost of the beautiful bride who leaves her cryptic warnings: Don’t eat.

Neither Ba nor her sweet sister Lily believe that there is anything strange happening. With help from a delinquent girl, Jade will prove this house—the home her family has always wanted—will not rest until it destroys them. Maybe, this time, she can keep her family together. As she roots out the house’s rot, she must also face the truth of who she is and who she must become to save them all.]]> 352 Trang Thanh Tran 1547610816 Michael 0 to-read 3.36 2023
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]]> 18614764 276 Avery F. Gordon 1299919332 Michael 0 to-read 3.67 1997
author: Avery F. Gordon
name: Michael
average rating: 3.67
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]]> 25154 250 Junji Ito 1591160480 Michael 4 4.27 1999
author: Junji Ito
name: Michael
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1999
rating: 4
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]]> 25153 208 Junji Ito 1591160332 Michael 4 still unsettling 4.33 1999
author: Junji Ito
name: Michael
average rating: 4.33
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rating: 4
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still unsettling
]]> 25152 208 Junji Ito 1569317143 Michael 4 4.45 1998
author: Junji Ito
name: Michael
average rating: 4.45
book published: 1998
rating: 4
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Disquieting story with an anthology feel and some really wonderful art - there are so many great tattoo ideas here
]]> 9987566
And Cujo falls sick. Very sick.

What happens to Cujo, how he becomes a horrifying vortex inexorably drawing in all the people around him, makes for one of the most heatt-stopping novels Stephen King has written.]]> 304 Stephen King Michael 4 3.72 1981
author: Stephen King
name: Michael
average rating: 3.72
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rating: 4
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]]> 17245 You can find an alternative cover edition for this ISBN here and here.

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival.

In Dracula, Bram Stoker created one of the great masterpieces of the horror genre, brilliantly evoking a nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters and also illuminating the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.

This Norton Critical Edition includes a rich selection of background and source materials in three areas: Contexts includes probable inspirations for Dracula in the earlier works of James Malcolm Rymer and Emily Gerard. Also included are a discussion of Stoker's working notes for the novel and "Dracula's Guest," the original opening chapter to Dracula. Reviews and Reactions reprints five early reviews of the novel. "Dramatic and Film Variations" focuses on theater and film adaptations of Dracula, two indications of the novel's unwavering appeal. David J. Skal, Gregory A. Waller, and Nina Auerbach offer their varied perspectives. Checklists of both dramatic and film adaptations are included.

Criticism collects seven theoretical interpretations of Dracula by Phyllis A. Roth, Carol A. Senf, Franco Moretti, Christopher Craft, Bram Dijkstra, Stephen D. Arata, and Talia Schaffer.

A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included.]]> 488 Bram Stoker 0393970124 Michael 4 4.02 1897
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name: Michael
average rating: 4.02
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This book was my whole personality when I was in middle school
]]> 9681957 218 Lemony Snicket 8884511739 Michael 4 italiano 3.96 2001
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name: Michael
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2001
rating: 4
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]]> 34964455 ISBN# 9780156627801
Mr. Palomar, whose name purposely evokes that of the famous telescope, is a seeker after knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous. Whether contemplating a cheese, a woman’s breasts, or a gorilla’s behavior, he brings us a vision of a world familiar by consensus, fragmented by the burden of individual perception. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book]]> 144 Italo Calvino Michael 4 4.15 1983
author: Italo Calvino
name: Michael
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1983
rating: 4
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]]> 22613 Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step toward theorizing the postmodern. Moving away from the Marxist/Freudian approaches that had concerned him earlier, Baudrillard developed in this book a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure.

Baudrillard uses the concepts of the simulacra—the copy without an original—and simulation. These terms are crucial to an understanding of the postmodern, to the extent that they address the concept of mass reproduction and reproduceability that characterizes our electronic media culture.

Baudrillard's book represents a unique and original effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a new concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.

Sheila Glaser is an editor at Artforum magazine.]]> 164 Jean Baudrillard 0472065211 Michael 3 reading-group 4.01 1981
author: Jean Baudrillard
name: Michael
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1981
rating: 3
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]]> 60057229 A Woman Built by Man is a collage of 21 horror tales that seek to crawl under the skin and deconstruct the many ways women are built up and broken down by a patriarchal society. And the many ways they're finally saying, "Enough."]]> 277 S.H. Cooper Michael 0 to-read 4.35 2022
author: S.H. Cooper
name: Michael
average rating: 4.35
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]]> 37689688 240 Graham Harman 1509512683 Michael 3 3.76
author: Graham Harman
name: Michael
average rating: 3.76
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]]> 70241 Crash explores the disturbing potentialities of contemporary society's increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations.]]> 224 J.G. Ballard 0312420331 Michael 0 to-read 3.62 1973
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name: Michael
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]]> 133230 366 Rosalind E. Krauss 0262611058 Michael 0 to-read 4.06 1993
author: Rosalind E. Krauss
name: Michael
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1993
rating: 0
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]]> 55172226 Sonic Overload offers a new, music-centered cultural history of the late Soviet Union. It focuses on polystylism in music as a response to the information overload swamping listeners in the Soviet Union during its final decades. It traces the ways in which leading composers Alfred Schnittke and Valentin Silvestrov initially embraced popular sources before ultimately rejecting them.

Polystylism first responded to the utopian impulses of Soviet ideology with utopian impulses to encompass all musical styles, from high to low. But these initial all-embracing aspirations were soon followed by retreats to alternate utopias founded on carefully selecting satisfactory borrowings, as familiar hierarchies of culture, taste, and class reasserted themselves. Looking at polystylism in the late USSR tells us about past and present, near and far, as it probes the musical roots of the
overloaded, distracted present.

Based on archival research, oral historical interviews, and other overlooked primary materials, as well as close listening and thorough examination of scores and recordings, Sonic Overload presents a multilayered and comprehensive portrait of late-Soviet polystylism and cultural life, and of theBmusic of Silvestrov and Schnittke. Sonic Overload is intended for musicologists and Soviet, Russian, and Ukrainian specialists in history, the arts, film, and literature, as well as readers interested in twentieth- and twenty-first century music; modernism and postmodernism; quotation and collage; the intersections of high and low cultures; and politics and the arts.]]> 430 Peter J. Schmelz 0197541259 Michael 0 to-read 4.00 2020
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name: Michael
average rating: 4.00
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