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Biography & Memoires

Strength of Soul

Enright Naomi Raquel

ISBN: PB: 9781940939728, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, April 2019
166 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Naomi Raquel Enright's "Strength of Soul" proposes tangible strategies and ideas on how to challenge systemic racism through naming and resisting the ideology of racial difference and of the white supremacy at its root. Enright explores racism and th...

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Contemporary Art

Sadie Benning Shared Eye

Filipovic Elena, Mehring Christine, Corbett John, Ovstebo Solveig

ISBN: PB: 9780941548700, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, March 2019
184 pp., 25.4x19.6 cm, 72 colour plates

This richly illustrated volume offers an in-depth look into artist Sadie Benning's exhibition "Shared Eye", presented at the Renaissance Society and the Kunsthalle Basel. The forty mixed-media panels in "Shared Eye" defy easy categorization: they inc...

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Literary Criticism

Samizdat Past & Present

Glanc Tomas

ISBN: PB: 9788024640334, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2019
250 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Much of what we now consider the canon of twentieth-century Czech literature – the work of authors like Bohumil Hrabal, Ludvik Vaculik, and Jachym Topol, among many others – has, in fact,...

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Poetry

Satan and His Daughter, the Angel Liberty Selected Verses

Hugo Victor

ISBN: PB: 9780997228731, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, March 2019
124 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Victor Hugo spent years in political exile off the coast of Normandy. While there, he produced his masterpiece, "Les Miserables" – but that wasn't all: he also wrote a book-length poem, "La Fin de Satan", left unfinished and not published until after...

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Contemporary Art

Some Kind of Duty

Rodrigues Widholm Julie

ISBN: PB: 9780996235006, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, March 2019
100 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 40 colour plates

"Some Kind of Duty" features all new handmade weavings by Chicago-based artist Karolina Gnatowski, known as kg. In monumental and small-scale tapestries, kg, anAmerican artist who was born in Poland incorporates references ranging from Polish immigra...

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Literary Criticism

Gender Studies

Someone The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities, from Colette to Herve Guibert

Lucey Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226606217, ISBN: HB: 9780226606187, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Imagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words. What if the mere attempt at expression was bound to misfire, to efface the truth of that ineluctable something? In "Someone", Michael Lucey conside...

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History

Spanish Disquiet The Biblical Natural Philosophy of Benito Arias Montano

Portuondo Maria M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226592268, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 1 line drawing

In this book, historian Maria M. Portuondo takes us to sixteenth-century Spain, where she identifies a community of natural philosophers and biblical scholars. They shared what she calls the "Spanish Disquiet" – a preoccupation with the perceived sho...

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Literary Criticism

States of Terror History, Theory, Literature

Simpson David

ISBN: PB: 9780226600222, ISBN: HB: 9780226600192, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philology of terror, tracking the concept's long, complicated history across literature, philosophy, politic...

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Literary Criticism

Street Players Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground

Nishikawa Kinohi

ISBN: PB: 9780226586915, ISBN: HB: 9780226586885, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

The uncontested center of the black pulp fiction universe for more than four decades was the Los Angeles publisher Holloway House. From the late 1960s until it closed in 2008, Holloway House specialized in cheap paperbacks with page-turning narrative...

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Reference

Education

Student's Guide to Writing College Papers Fifth Edition

Turabian Kate L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226430263, ISBN: HB: 9780226494562, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 17 line drawings, 6 tables

Students of all levels need to know how to write a well-reasoned, coherent research paper – and for decades Kate L. Turabian's "Student's Guide to Writing College Papers" has helped them to develop this critical skill. For its fifth edition, Chicago...

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