"Acclaimed travel writer Rick Antonson sets his adventurous compass on Mount Ararat, exploring the region's long history, religious mysteries, and complex politics. Mount Ararat is the most fabled mountain in the world. For millennia this massif in eastern Turkey has been rumored...
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"In 2007, Pitchfork writer Rob Mitchum described the indie rock band Wilco's new work as "an album of unapologetic straightforwardness. Sky Blue Sky nakedly exposes the dad-rock gene Wilco has always carried but courageously attempted to disguise." The "dad rock" descriptor hit a...
In this autobiographical novel, spiritually hungry writer Paulo embarks on a pilgrimage that eventually leads him to Moscow. There he meets Hilal, a young woman violin virtuoso, who joins him on an epic journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Translated from Portuguese.
"From the acclaimed author of horror sensation Boys Weekend, a vibrant new graphic novel about a timid academic sent out from the walled dystopian security territory of New York City to investigate a cult in the wilds of the Catskill Mountains. In 1977, a group called The Spiritu...
"'Femme' describes a constellation of queer, gendered expressions that uproot expectations of what it means to be feminine. Transfeminists take their experiences of desire, belonging and harm to create collective power through femininity, fighting for marginalised and non-conform...
"More than ten years after the New York Times unmasked Savannah Knoop as the face of the mysterious author JT LeRoy, her story continues to fascinate. To some, it was a compelling experiment with authorship and identity. To others, it was an unforgivable deception. In Girl Boy Gi...
When Jonathan Harker visits Trans-ylvania to help Count Dragula purchase a London house, he makes some horrifying discoveries in his client's castle (including the wearing of espadrilles without irony) and the local area, where people insist on behaving bizarrely, festooning him ...
"In 2007, Pitchfork writer Rob Mitchum described the indie rock band Wilco's new work as "an album of unapologetic straightforwardness. Sky Blue Sky nakedly exposes the dad-rock gene Wilco has always carried but courageously attempted to disguise." The "dad rock" descriptor hit a...