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Jonas mekas, shiver of memory
The texture of memory and the ability of art and film to bear witness to traumatic events are delicately approached in this book-length essay by a Mekas cinephile. For years, filmmaker Peter Delpeut has had Jonas Mekas's Movie Journal within easy reach of his desk. Since his student days, he has ...
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Malva
The abandoned daughter of Pablo Neruda speaks through “incandescent poetic prose full of magical realism, biographical details and psychological insight.”
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Verklempt
Linked stories expose generational conflicts, broken relationships and Jewish insecurity post-Holocaust. Darkly humorous, absurd, sometimes tragic and erotic.
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The ghetto swinger
Jazz in Nazi-era and postwar Germany, as lived by a Jewish prodigy who survived the horrors of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz.
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Three tearless histories
Stirring, poignant stories humanize great historical tragedies with interviews and accounts of individuals affected by European and South American fascism.
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Red wave
A memoir by an American who almost single-handedly introduced Soviet rock to the free world, [...] Stingray, who wrote this memoir with her daughter, Madison, nicely captures her daring amid an atmosphere of liberation and fear, and she's a study in moxie and enthusiasm.—Kirkus ReviewsAs one of t...
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The private adolf loos
Lively, snapshot-like vignettes form an intimate, literary portrait of the infamously eccentric and influential modern architect Adolf Loos.
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Escape home
The riveting family memoir of a Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice begins in Nazi-occupied Europe and journeys "home" to American modernism.
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Ludwig wittgenstein's tractatus odyssey
Charts Wittgenstein’s intellectual development, personal struggles, and movements from Vienna to Cambridge and Norway, and to the battlegrounds of WWI, where he completed what was destined to become the most influential philosophy book of the 20th century.Ludwig Wittgenstein’s way to the Tractatu...
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Even when fall is here
A conversation about creation, change, and loss in the California border-landscape with a gardener who has nurtured it for decades.
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The vél d'hiv raid
A micro-history of anti-Semitism, xenophobia, police brutality, and terror.
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Movements: liat yossifor
Named an "Artist to Watch" in 2016 by Modern Painters Magazine, this is Israeli born, LA-based Liat Yossifor's first monograph.
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Sting in the tale
An illustrated survey of artist hoaxes, including impersonations, fabula, cryptoscience, and forgeries, researched and written by an expert “fictive-art” practitioner. In her groundbreaking book, internationally recognized multimedia artist and writer Antoinette LaFarge reflects on the most urgen...
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Mentors
A surprising and revealing memoir populated with art historians, art influencers, and the former lover and lifelong friend of Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood.
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Dancing on thin ice
Exiled Russian journalist colorfully narrates his passage into dissent and his work on behalf of persecuted Christians in 1970s USSR.
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The chosen few
Just a game? This intriguing visual title looks deep into the underbelly of football (soccer) fandom, featuring a vast photographic archive of fans' graffiti and street art captured by a pioneering ‘graffitologist’. At the intersection of the street and sport we find themes of the day: how racial...
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Operation yellow star / black thursday
A damning inquiry of French-Nazi collaboration by an investigative journalist who survived the largest roundup of Jews in France.
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The lost architecture of jean welz
A deserted Paris house holds the mystery of a brilliant Viennese modernist who worked alongside Le Corbusier and Adolf Loos before vanishing.Wyeth takes readers on a deeply personal and revelatory journey. This research process, which readers experience vicariously, makes Wyeth’s prose exhilarati...
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The consequences
This award-winning, raucous debut novel follows young Minnie Panis, performance artist and existentialist, as she tries to refuse success and fame.
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The last days of mankind
The Great War drama by Viennese satirist Karl Kraus, restaged by Sengl in "stunning display" of taxidermied rat-actors, with commentary.
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A room with a darker view
A daughter breaks the family silence about her mother's schizophrenia, reframing hospitalizations, paranoia, illness, and caregiving through a feminist lens.
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A stranger at my table
A biracial son of a subcontinental, migrant family searches for his estranged father’s story and ultimately rewrites his own.
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The artist, the censor and the nude
A unique commentary/critique combining art history, feminism, painting and observations about the culture of censorship in Iran and the West.
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The abolition of species
After mankind’s near-extermination, a kingdom of animals harnessing biotechnology wages a multi-planetary war against a new form of artificial intelligence.
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Paul t. frankl | autobiography
The never-before published memoir of design pioneer Paul T. Frankl, known for his Skyscraper furniture and work for Hollywood elite.
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Ukrainian vignettes
Ukraine at war in a unique chronicle that examines expressions of the Ukrainian people on the street, in graffiti, murals, and quotidian life.On his travels to wartime Ukraine, where even the feeling of relaxation is dangerous, Mitja Velikonja observed thousands of images of the culture of war in...
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Critical conditions
As seen and heard on 60 Minutes, This American Life, and in The New York Times — a frontline eyewitness account of the Syrian Revolution from prizewinning journalist and activist Hadi Abdullah."This is Hadi al-Abdullah. A few years ago, he was studying to be a nurse. But when war broke out in Syr...
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I am oum ry
“The story of the legendary martial arts fighter and kickboxer Oum Ry is by turns pulse-pounding, disturbing, and powerful. His is an astonishing life told beautifully by his daughter Zochada Tat and Addi Somekh. The book will grip you from its first pages and not let you go."—Jeff Chang, author ...
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Hitler, stalin and i: an oral history
The oral history of a renowned Czech writer, whose optimism and faith in people survived grueling experiences under authoritarian regimes.
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