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        Speculation

        Speculation

        Edited by Ed Pavlić and Ivelisse Rodriguez

        ISBN: 9781946511768

        Publisher: Boston Review

        Pub Date: April 11, 2023

        How can the literary imagination bring us closer to a better world?
        Strange Attractor Journal Five

        Strange Attractor Journal Five

        Edited by Mark Pilkington and Jamie Sutcliffe

        ISBN: 9781907222528

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: March 7, 2023

        The return of the Strange Attractor Journal, offering a characteristically eclectic collection of high weirdness from the margins of culture.
        Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths

        Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths

        A Realist's View of the Human Condition

        by Shimon Edelman

        ISBN: 9780262542784

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 28, 2022

        A guide for making sense of life—from action (good except when it's not) to thinking (depressing) to youth (a treasure).
        Repair

        Repair

        Edited by Ed Pavlić and Ivelisse Rodriguez

        ISBN: 9781946511683

        Publisher: Boston Review

        Pub Date: April 5, 2022

        How we can recover from terrible ruptures, the pandemic, toxic politics, racist horrors, class warfare, gendered violence, and ecological brinksmanship.
        Bee Reaved

        Bee Reaved

        by Dodie Bellamy

        ISBN: 9781635901573

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: October 19, 2021

        A new collection of essays from Dodie Bellamy on disenfranchisement, vulgarity, American working class life, aesthetic values, and profound embarrassment.
        World Brain

        World Brain

        by H. G. Wells

        Foreword by Bruce Sterling

        Introduction by Joseph Reagle

        ISBN: 9780262542562

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 3, 2021

        In 1937, H. G. Wells proposed a predigital, freely available World Encyclopedia to represent a civilization-saving World Brain.
        Ancestors

        Ancestors

        Edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Ed Pavlić and Ivelisse Rodriguez

        ISBN: 9781946511553

        Publisher: Boston Review

        Pub Date: March 23, 2021

        Some of today's most imaginative writers consider what it means to be made and fashioned by others.
        Doomed and Famous

        Doomed and Famous

        Selected Obituaries

        by Adrian Dannatt

        ISBN: 9780997567472

        Publisher: Sequence Press

        Pub Date: February 2, 2021

        An obituarist opens his archive to celebrate the obscure and the eccentric.
        Peter Friedl

        Peter Friedl

        Rehousing

        Edited by Kunsthalle Wien

        Foreword by Vanessa Joan Müller

        ISBN: 9783956795510

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: February 2, 2021

        Writers respond to the architectural true-to-scale models of Peter Friedl's Rehousing series.
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