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I Am Dynamite!:
A Life of Nietzsche
by Sue Prideaux
Tim Duggan Books
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I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche by Sue Prideaux
By Maria Dimitrova
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The Nietzsche that emerges in the first pages of Sue Prideaux’s ambitious and stylistically accomplished biography is not the prodigy philologist or the ruthless diagnostician of modernity, but the fanboy. In a letter to a friend, he recounts getting ready to meet Wagner for the first time. Still a

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The Lonesome Bodybuilder:
Stories
by Yukiko Motoya
translation by Asa Yoneda
Soft Skull Press
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The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya
By Bradley Babendir
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At the beginning of the millennium, Japanese writer Yukiko Motoya emerged as something of a prodigy. In 2000, at twenty-one-years-old, she founded her own theater company in Tokyo. Six years later, she became the youngest playwright to win the Tsuruya Nanboku Memorial Award. Around this time, she

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This Mournable Body:
A Novel
by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Graywolf Press
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This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga
By Leah Mirakhor
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Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body follows a single, unemployed young black woman (Tambudzai), as she attempts to escape the entangled forces of neocolonialism, patriarchy, poverty, and history’s ever-present effect on daily life in modern-day Zimbabwe. Tambu, who also appeared in Dangarembga’s

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We Can Save Us All
by Adam Nemett
The Unnamed Press
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We Can Save Us All by Adam Nemett
By Ryan Chapman
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Adam Nemett's debut novel We Can Save Us All deserves points for ambition. In just under four hundred pages he's folded in the campus novel, socialist activism, toxic masculinity, psychopharmacology, communalism, American mythology, the anthropocene, and the apocalypse. All from the perspective of

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Silicon City:
San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley
by Cary McClelland
W. W. Norton & Company
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Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley by Cary McClelland
By Luisa Rollenhagen
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In his new book, Silicon City, Cary McClelland observes that San Francisco “has always been something of a funhouse mirror, reflecting a strange yet sublime potential self back to the rest of the nation.” The city was a myth machine, attracting pioneers, refugees, misfits, and artists—all of whom

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The Injustice Never Leaves You:
Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
by Monica Muñoz Martinez
Harvard University Press
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The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas by Monica Muñoz Martinez
By Andrew R. Graybill
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In the wee hours of January 28, 1918, the men of Texas Ranger Company B and a handful of local ranchers descended upon the tiny hamlet of Porvenir, hard against the boundary with Mexico. The police had come in search of alleged bandits who were hiding in the area, which, like much of the Texas border

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The Piranhas:
The Boy Bosses of Naples: A Novel
by Roberto Saviano
translation by Antony Shugaar
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The Piranhas by Roberto Saviano
By Molly McArdle
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In English, “novel” equals “fiction”—the meaning is unambiguous. In Italian, however, it’s a bit more complicated. The word romanzo describes a book-length prose narrative, but it does not distinguish between fact and fiction. In the work of Roberto Saviano—Italy’s most famous living writer save

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The Chapo Guide to Revolution:
A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason
by Chapo Trap House and Felix Biederman
Touchstone
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The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason
By Patrick Blanchfield
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In October 2004, the comedian Jon Stewart appeared on CNN’s debate show Crossfire and confronted hosts Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson with the charge that their program was “hurting America” and that Carlson was “a dick.” Two years later, at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner Roast, Stewart’s

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Football for a Buck:
The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL
by Jeff Pearlman
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Football for a Buck by Jeff Pearlman
By Andrew Schenker
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In Mike Tollin’s 2009 documentary Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?, he answers the question posed by the film’s subtitle in no uncertain terms. It was, he argues, none other than Donald J. Trump. That upstart entity, the United States Football League, which played eighteen games every spring from

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Dusty Pink (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)
by Jean-Jacques Schuhl
translation by Jeffrey Zuckerman
Semiotext(e)
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Dusty Pink by Jean-Jacques Schuhl
By Hannah Stamler
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If Millennial Pink captures something of 2018’s youth zeitgeist, then according to French author Jean-Jacques Schuhl, winner of the 2000 Goncourt Prize for his novel Ingrid Caven, the late 1960s and early 1970s might be characterized as the years of “dusty pink.” His cult classic of the same title,

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Web Exclusive

I Am Dynamite!:

A Life of Nietzsche

by Sue Prideaux

Tim Duggan Books

$30.00 List Price

For more info visit:Amazon • IndieBound • Barnes & Noble

By Maria Dimitrova

The Lonesome Bodybuilder:

Stories

by Yukiko Motoya

translation by Asa Yoneda

Soft Skull Press

$16.95 List Price

For more info visit:Amazon • IndieBound • Barnes & Noble

By Bradley Babendir

This Mournable Body:

A Novel

by Tsitsi Dangarembga

Graywolf Press

$16.00 List Price

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By Leah Mirakhor

We Can Save Us All

by Adam Nemett

The Unnamed Press

$18.99 List Price

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By Ryan Chapman

Silicon City:

San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley

by Cary McClelland

W. W. Norton & Company

$26.95 List Price

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By Luisa Rollenhagen

The Injustice Never Leaves You:

Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas

by Monica Muñoz Martinez

Harvard University Press

$35.00 List Price

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By Andrew R. Graybill

The Piranhas:

The Boy Bosses of Naples: A Novel

by Roberto Saviano

translation by Antony Shugaar

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

$27.00 List Price

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By Molly McArdle

The Chapo Guide to Revolution:

A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason

by Chapo Trap House and Felix Biederman

Touchstone

$25.00 List Price

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By Patrick Blanchfield

Football for a Buck:

The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL

by Jeff Pearlman

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

$28.00 List Price

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By Andrew Schenker

Dusty Pink (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

by Jean-Jacques Schuhl

translation by Jeffrey Zuckerman

Semiotext(e)

$14.95 List Price

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By Hannah Stamler

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