Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector
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"That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf," Clarice Lispector...
Richard III: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records
Keith Dockray and P.W. Hammond
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No English king has suffered wider fluctuations of reputation than Richard III, perhaps the most...
Vampires and Zombies: Transcultural Migrations and Transnational Interpretations
Dorothea Fischer-Hornung and Monika Mueller
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The undead are very much alive in contemporary entertainment and lore. Indeed, vampires and zombies...
The Modern Interior
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Through the impact of shops like Habitat and IKEA, and of the countless glossy magazines, books and...
Promises of Citizenship: Film Recruitment of African Americans in World War II
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Since the earliest days of the nation, US citizenship has been linked to military service. Even...
Cy Twombly
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The American artist Cy Twombly (1928-2011) was one of the seminal artists of the second half of the...
A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism
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Sun Ra said he came from Saturn. Known on earth for his inventive music and extravagant stage shows,...
Abandon Me: Memoirs
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For readers of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison, a fierce and dazzling personal narrative that...
The Market as God
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The Market has deified itself, according to Harvey Cox's brilliant exegesis. And all of the world's...
Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal
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In many ways, twentieth-century America was the land of superheroes and science fiction. From...