Results for "Turner, Lindsay"

An intimate look at a fiercely controversial topic in contemporary Western culture and politics: a garment-the niqab, or full-face veil-and the women who choose to wear it... Read More about The Niqab in France: Between Piety and Subversion

Searing in its energies and mysterious in its icy depths, Love is Colder than the Lake is a tour-de-force of the experimental French poet Liliane Giraudon's power and range.Love is Colder than the Lake weaves together stories dreamed and experienced, fragments of autobiographical trauma, and scraps ... Read More about Love Is Colder Than the Lake

Poetry that sings of southern Appalachian beauty and crisis.   Set in a landscape of red sunsets and wildfire smoke, Queen Anne’s lace on the roadsides, and toxic chemicals in the watershed, Lindsay Turner’s The Upstate is a book about southern Appalachia in a contemporary moment of change and ... Read More about The Upstate (Phoenix Poets)

What would we learn if animals could tell their own stories? ric Baratay, a pioneering researcher in animal histories in France, applies his knowledge of historical methodologies to give voice to some of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries' most interesting animals. He offers brief yet innovativ... Read More about Animal Biographies: Toward a History of Individuals (Animal Voices / Animal Worlds)

Winner, Prix Litt raire Paris-Li ge 2021 Winner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and Translation When we speak of mass killers, we may speak of radicalized ideologues, mediocrities who only obey orders, or bloodthirsty monsters. Who are these men who kill on a mass scale? What is... Read More about Living in Death: Genocide and Its Functionaries (Thinking from Elsewhere)

Living in Death descends into the ordinary life of people who execute hundreds every day, the same way others go to the office. Bringing philosophical sophistication to the ordinary, the book constitutes both an anthropology of mass killers and a challenge to the conditions that make genocide possib... Read More about Living in Death: Genocide and Its Functionaries (Thinking from Elsewhere)