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      A remarkable blood-soaked stranger upends the lives of two Lake District ramblers; a lonely tavern offers its guests something much more disturbing than...
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        Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her past, her practice...
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          At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle...
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                Terminal Boredom
                On a planet where men are contained in ghettoised isolation, women enjoy the fruits of a queer matriarchal utopia -- until a boy escapes and a young woman's...
                  The Conspiracy of Art: Manifestos, Interviews, Essays
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                    The Power Of Words
                    The philosopher and activist Simone Weil was one of the most courageous thinkers of the twentieth century. Here she writes, with honesty and moral clarity,...
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                          Weird WalkWanderings and Wonderings through the British Ritual Year
                          The first book by iconic zine creators and cultural phenomenon Weird Walk. This is a superbly designed guide to Britain's strange and ancient places, to...
                            What Is Existentialism?
                            How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity...
                              FemalesBy Andrea Long Chu
                              “Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.”So begins Andrea Long Chu’s genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless...
                                Notes on GriefBy Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
                                On 10 June 2020, the scholar James Nwoye Adichie died suddenly in Nigeria. In this tender and powerful essay, expanded from the original New Yorker text,...
                                  The City and Its Uncertain WallsBy Haruki Murakami
                                  When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he sets his heart on finding the imaginary city where her true self lives. His search will lead...
                                    Empire Roller DiscoPhotographs by Patrick D. Pagnano
                                    Brooklyn’s Empire Rollerdrome opened its doors in 1941 and soon became the borough’s premier destination for recreational and competitive roller skating....
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                                      A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society...
                                        The Markets Of LondonAlec Forshaw and Theo Bergström
                                        What a great book!Together with street maps (which pinpoint nearest bus and tube stops) and the superb photographs.
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