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Sex Is No Emergency

Adventures in a Post Punk Wonderland

by Dorothy Max Prior

ISBN: 9781913689810

Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

Pub Date: May 20, 2025

Further adventures in psychedelic rock, ball room dancing, performance art, and parenting in 1980s Britain.

Airless Spaces, new edition

Airless Spaces

by Shulamith Firestone

Introduction by Chris Kraus

Afterword by Susan Faludi

ISBN: 9781635902518

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: February 25, 2025

Short stories set among the disappeared and darkened sectors of New York City, about characters who fall prey to an increasingly bureaucratized poverty.

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.

Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Beyond

The Life of Astronomer Vera Rubin

by Ashley Jean Yeager

ISBN: 9780262547239

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 15, 2023

How Vera Rubin convinced the scientific community that dark matter might exist, persevering despite early dismissals of her work.

Reading My Mother Back

A Memoir in Childhood Animal Stories

by Timothy C. Baker

ISBN: 9781913380472

Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

Pub Date: September 13, 2022

An innovative memoir connecting ideas of grief, memory, and animals to illustrate the importance of storytelling.

Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, new edition

Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

Collected Stories

by Cookie Mueller

Introduction by Olivia Laing

Edited by Hedi El Kholti, Chris Kraus and Amy Scholder

ISBN: 9781635901665

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: April 26, 2022

The first collected edition of legendary writer, actress, and adventurer Cookie Mueller's stories, featuring the entire contents of her 1990 book Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, alongside more than two dozen others, some previously unpublished.

Breaking Out

An Indian Woman's American Journey

by Padma Desai

ISBN: 9780262019972

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 13, 2013

The brave and moving memoir of a woman's journey of transformation: from a sheltered Indian upbringing to success and academic eminence in America.

Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age

by Kurt W. Beyer

ISBN: 9780262517263

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 10, 2012

The career of computer visionary Grace Murray Hopper, whose innovative work in programming laid the foundations for the user-friendliness of today's personal computers that sparked the information age.