Books

Hugh Ferriss and The Metropolis of Tomorrow: Where Imagination Meets Concrete
Hugh Ferriss’ shadowy sketches have influenced the imagination and aesthetics of cities from the 1920s to today, anticipating the dreams and fears of the city.

Is there a good end for doomers?
In “Doomed to Fail,” J.J. Anselmi provides a detailed examination of doom metal background, and cultural significance.

Makanin’s Asan: Dark myth of in Chechnia
Asan is less a book about Russia’s Chechen battles and more of an unsatisfied, jittery novel that shows how war pushes participants and observers to piece together narratives that explain or justify actions.

From father to son, immutable violence – on The son of the man by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
The Son of Man depicts violence transmitted from person to person without denouncing the paternal figure.

Clifford Harper: What is Government?
An extract from the anarchist graphics of Clifford Harper. (Text: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Confessions of a Revolutionary, 1849)

Mircea Cărtărescu to Receive Guadalajara’s Literature Prize
The 2022 edition of Guadalajara fair’s top literary award goes to the Bucharest-born Mircea Cărtărescu.

[Antonio Lobo Antunes] Incest and dictators
Act of the Damned offers readers another another look at Antunes’ complex, vile brilliance.

Le Seuil will publish Georges Perec’s unfinished Places
Forty years after the death of the writer, Editions du Seuil will publish on May 6 an unfinished project by George Perec entitled Lieux. The book will be available in bookstores, but also online, in its entirety.
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