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A Heart Afire

Helen Brooke Taussig's Battle Against Heart Defects, Unsafe Drugs, and Injustice in Medicine

by Patricia Meisol

ISBN: 9780262048521

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 12, 2023

A deeply compelling biography of the pioneering children's heart doctor Helen Taussig, who helped start heart surgery and became a global force against preventable suffering.

Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern

Architecture and the Black American Middle Class

by Jacqueline Taylor

ISBN: 9780262048347

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 28, 2023

The extraordinary life and work of architect Amaza Lee Meredith, and the role modernism and material culture played in the aspiring Black American middle class of the early twentieth century.

Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun

An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood

by Jackie Wang

ISBN: 9781635901924

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: November 21, 2023

The early writings of renowned poet and critical theorist Jackie Wang, drawn from her early zines, indie-lit crit, and prolific early 2000s blog.

The Claims of Life

A Memoir

by Diana Chapman Walsh

ISBN: 9780262048491

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 7, 2023

The engaging memoir of a legendary president of Wellesley College known for authentic and open-hearted leadership, who drove innovation with power and love.

Chapel Perilous

The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson

by Gabriel Kennedy

Foreword by Grant Morrison

Introduction by Douglas Rushkoff

ISBN: 9781913689568

Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

Pub Date: November 7, 2023

The first biography of the late countercultural novelist and underground philosopher Robert Anton Wilson.

Two-Headed Doctor

Listening For Ghosts in Dr. John's Gris-Gris

by David Toop

ISBN: 9781913689605

Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

Pub Date: November 7, 2023

A forensic investigation into a single LP: Dr. John, the night tripper's Gris-gris.

Earlier

by Sasha Frere-Jones

ISBN: 9781635901962

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: October 24, 2023

Sasha Frere-Jones's evolution as a writer and musician with the deceptively casual intelligence that marks all of his work.

Her Space, Her Time

How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe

by Shohini Ghose

ISBN: 9780262048316

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 17, 2023

An exciting new title in the vein of Hidden Figures, which tells the inspiring stories of long-overlooked women physicists and astronomers who discovered the fundamental rules of the universe and reshaped the rules of society.