Alphabet City is a series of annual hardcover anthologies originating from Toronto, Canada. Each volume in the series addresses a one-word topic of global concern and draws on the diverse perspectives of writers and artists from many cultures and disciplines. Each book is a graphically rich and textually surprising combination of images and texts that critically and imaginatively reinvents the topic at hand.
Publications 1 - 6 of 6
Food Edited by John Knechtel
As the slow food movement meets fast food nation and eating locally collides with on-demand arugula, our food habits are shifting: writers and artists examine and imagine these changes, from the idea of a farm in a skyscraper to a map of fruit that falls on public property, from the genealogy of an organic bento box to a tale of chop suey and egg rolls. Cloth / October 2007 Price $15.95 | ADD TO CART
Fuel Edited by John Knechtel
Writers and artists imagine the transition to a carbon-free future and the radical reinvention of energy that would make it possible. Cloth / October 2008 Price $15.95 | ADD TO CART
Subtitles On the Foreignness of Film
Edited by Atom Egoyan and Ian Balfour
Translating the experience of film: filmmakers, writers, and artists explore the elements of film that make us feel "outside and inside at the same time." Cloth / October 2004 Price $35.00 | ADD TO CART
Suspect Edited by John Knechtel
Essays, graphic novels, films, and commentary examine the figure of the suspect and the politics of suspicion in a post-9/11 world. Cloth / November 2005 Price $15.95 | ADD TO CART
Trash Edited by John Knechtel
Writers, artists, and filmmakers investigate the proposition that we are what we throw away. Cloth / October 2006 Price $15.95 | ADD TO CART
Water Edited by John Knechtel
Writers and artists offer new perspectives on water, with writings and projects that touch on subjects ranging from new water infrastructures to the bliss of bathing. Cloth / October 2009 Price $15.95 | ADD TO CART