A close investigation of aerial war and atmospheric violence through artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan's newly commissioned audio and video installation. This publication documents the creation of a new work by artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan (b. 1985) for the...

This is a fascinating window giving on the private thoughts of one of the great American writers of the twentieth century. It follows on Carcanet's publication of "Edgar Allan Poe and the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments", edited by...

For several years Sujata Bhatt has been working on two parallel projects, a new collection of poems to be called "Habitat" (her most recent book was "Poppies in Translation" in 2015) and her Appa stories, a move into prose. Appa is a physician, a fat...

Initially proposed for the US Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal, Buckminster Fuller's World Game was played for the first time in 1969 in New York. Over the next decade the World Game evolved and expanded. Across its different manifestations the World...

The end of the Cold War and the (then) receding threat of global nuclear conflagration were meant to usher in a 'peace dividend': concomitantly warfare would decline as states devoted themselves to making money and providing for their respective so...

A dynamic history of life in turn-of-the-century Warsaw through the eyes of a young woman and her Jewish family who converted to Catholicism. When Alicja Lewental's parents came of age in the middle of the nineteenth century, they believed they did...

A collection of essays that think with, against, and beside the intellectual questions that have engaged Michael Ann Holly throughout her storied career. American scholar Michael Ann Holly (b. 1944) has devoted a decades-long career to the historio...

How Russia's post-Soviet economy, engineered to stagnate, explains its conflict with Ukraine and divisions across Eurasia. "Fortress Russia" evokes a Kremlin standing strong against the West. But Moscow's ceaseless quest for safety from sanctions...

A moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti's fight for independence from French colonial rule. "My name has become a horror to all those who want slavery", declared Jean-Jacques Dessalines...