At the Edge of the Night – Friedo Lampe
The Hesperus Press edition of Friedo Lampe’s AT THE EDGE OF THE NIGHT raises the possibility that a lost German classic could well be overshadowed by its author’s extraordinary life story.
With the matched rise of the far-right and mass antifascism, there has been a critical need for scholarship that helps create a vital living history. A number of academics, journals, and publishers have started to take this seriously.
Because the story happens just the way it happens, chickens live on.
Some Girls Walk into the Country They Are From – Sawako Nakayasu
Through tongue-in-cheek revelries, “some girls” disturb the myths of origin, genre, and gender.
Warhol’s Mother’s Pantry: Art, America, and the Mom in Pop – M. I. Devine
The totality of Devine’s work is steeped in an American mythos to reclaim the synergy of pop songs, poetry, and photography for our own contemporary imagination.
Martin attempts to represent Branwell’s life, his marginalised existence, with the empathy and legitimacy that was tragically unavailable to Branwell in his lifetime.
The Society of Reluctant Dreamers – José Eduardo Agualusa
José Eduardo Agualusa takes on the herculean task of depersonalizing dreams in order to shed light on his home country’s simmering revolution.
Count Luna – Alexander Lernet-Holenia
The novel takes the study of the conscience that forms the basis of Eichmann in Jerusalem and mixes it with the blinding guilt of “A Tell-Tale Heart.”
A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo Bolshevism – Paul Hanebrick
The idea that communism is a Jewish plot for control, or a thoroughly Judaized ideology, is such a deep part of 20th and 21st Century antisemitism that it feels almost redundant to discuss it.
The Cheerful Scapegoat: Fables – Wayne Koestenbaum
Koestenbaum’s THE CHEERFUL SCAPEGOAT overturns the classical idea of the fable as containing a moral; his prose is amoral, and delights in playing with the language, destabilizing meaning, or common sense.