SOME NEW RELEASES WE THINK YOU'LL LIKE
Warm and sharp, Camp's poems step easily from the domestic to the universal yet never stray from the personal, which gives them such buoyancy, such vigour and compassion.
The cat, Bruno, takes life as it comes. When it is too rainy to go outside, he rustles up an inside picnic with his friends. When he meets a fish swimming in the air, he follows it. Why not! When the canary forgets how to sing, Bruno helps out. Six delightful stories - a new favourite!
How short can an essay be? What seems at first an assortment of aphorisms on life, failure, &c, builds cumulative force into a kind of thesis on (or even novel-in-potentia of) life, failure, &c.
"A Proustian minimalist on the order of Lydia Davis.” - Kirkus Reviews
>> Here's a sample!
“It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.” - Alfred Jarry
What is the relationship between freakishness and art? Is creativity the deliberate courting of chaos to the verge of destruction? What else must be unleashed to unleash the new?
"Charlie Fox writes about scary and fabulous monsters, but he really writes about culture, which is the monster’s best and only escape. He is a dazzling writer, unbelievably erudite, and this book is a pleasure to read. Domesticating the difficult, he invites us as his readers to become monsters as well." — Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick
>> Read a sample: 'Self-Portrait as a Werewolf'.
A fascinating and sensitive portrait of two obsessive writers: one the author of tens of thousands of urgently written pages found thrown into a skip, the other Masters himself, unable to rest in his fourteen-year search for the identity and real history of the diarist known only as "I".
"Approaches something ineffable, the span of a soul across the arc of time; the radiant, baffling grandeur of other people." - The New Yorker
“I worship at the altar of this book. Somehow Michelle Tea has managed to write a hilarious, scorching, devastatingly observed novel about addiction, sex, identity, the 90s, apocalypse, and autobiography, while also gifting us with an indispensable meditation on what it means to write about those things—indeed, on what it means to write at all. A keen portrait of a subculture, an instant classic in life-writing, a go-for-broke exemplar of queer feminist imagination, a contribution to crucial, ongoing conversations about whose lives matter, Black Wave is a rollicking triumph.” — Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts
In 1994, economist Prue Hyman published Women and Economics, an overview of the status of women in the New Zealand economy. Much has changed since then - but how much?
Acerbic yet compassionate, ironic yet provocative, mordant yet generous, wide-ranging yet with a nose for minutiae, Gill was one of the outstanding journalists of our times. Some of his best work of the last five years is collected in this book.
>> We also have Gill's own account of his pickled life, Pour Me.
Understanding how democracies can fall, often by popular accord, into absolutism may help us to recognise the warning signs that similar forces threaten dearly held ideals. Can an understanding of the past prevent it from being repeated?
A very appealing cookbook, packed with the delicious, fresh, approachable food characteristic of the Tuscan coast, together with plenty of information and anecdote.
In an age of populist politics, media demagogues and policy determined by opinion polls, is there a place for a longer and more considered view?
When a tiny stray kitten turns up on the doorstep, Hina and her mother take the kitten in. Hina makes a home for her and learns all about caring for a living creature. Then one day the kitten goes missing. Beautifully illustrated.
Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943) was a German-Jewish artist primarily remembered as the creator of an autobiographical series of paintings 'Life? or Theater?', consisting of 769 individual works painted between 1941 and 1943 in the south of France, while Salomon was in hiding from the Nazis. In October 1943 she was captured and deported to Auschwitz, where she and her unborn child were gassed to death by the Nazis soon after her arrival. Her life forms the basis of Foenkinos's beautiful, indignant book.
>>Some of her work can be seen here.
Who lived in the shadows of the City of Light? Sante does an excellent job of introducing us to the denizens on whom the back of history is most usually turned.
Vast, sprawling and incisive, Musil's unfinished, unfinishable, incomparable masterwork (the first part of which appeared in 1930) is a multilayered fractalising exploration of what it is like to be a human being in the modern world. Translated by Sophie Wilkins, and with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem. Intellectually, aesthetically and ultimately emotionally enthralling.
Why are there no mirrors in Thomasine's Great-Great-Aunt's old and melancholy house? One day her cousin makes a discovery: a cupboard which contains all the mirrors, through which the children reach a world where one can discover not what one most desires but perhaps what one most needs.
Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus, Heidegger et al meet at cafes to resolve and enlarge the discrepancies between their lives and their philosophies. Lively and informative and now in soft cover.
"A wonderfully readable combination of biography, philosophy, history, cultural analysis and personal reflection." - Independent
Thi Bui's family fled to America following the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s. Her graphic memoir is a story of identity, family, longing and home.
"A book to break your heart and heal it." - Viet Thanh Nguyen
An interesting survey of current New Zealand poetry practice, with representation from the establishment, from the fringes and from emerging voices. The featured poet is Elizabeth Morton, whose collection Wolf will be published later this year.
An obsessive love affair has long-lasting repercussions for two writers and a poet. From the author of the remarkable memoir What Lies Beneath.
Inconceivably large (actually it's 110 times the size of the earth), immeasurably hot (actually, it's 15,000,000 degrees), quite far away (even though Earth lies within its atmosphere), the sun affects everything in our lives. Although it is too bright to look at, Lucie Green shows us the wonder at the centre of our solar system.
>>Is there a sun behind the sun?
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