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The Elementary Particles

by Michel Houellebecq

An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence. Bruno and Michel …
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Disgrace

by J. M. Coetzee

In a novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, a fifty-two-year-old college professor who has lost his job for sleeping with a student tries to relate to his daughter, Lucy, who …
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Ride the Tiger

by Julius Evola

Julius Evola’s final major work, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absolute meaning to his or her life in a world of dissolution • Presents …
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Palestine

by Joe Sacco

A landmark of journalism and the art form of comics. Based on several months of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early …
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Against the Modern World

by Mark Sedgwick

Against the Modern World is a history of Traditionalism, an influential yet little-known twentieth century anti-modernist movement. Mark Sedgwick reveals how this pervasive intellectual movement helped shape major events in …
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Safe Area Goražde

by Joe Sacco

A graphic novel based on the author's 1995-96 visits to Gorazde, one of the U.N.-created "safe areas" in Eastern Bosnia, showing the brutality and humanity that coexisted there during the …
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Black Hole

by Charles Burns

“The best graphic novel of the year” (Time) tells the story of a strange plague devastating the lives of teenagers in mid-1970s suburban Seattle, revealing the horrifying nature of high …
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The Boone System

by Percy Kemp

An infamous Islamic militant defects and becomes British Intelligence's single most important source of information about global terrorism. But has he really defected? Exactly who is playing whom here? Beirut-based …
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Glamorama

by Bret Easton Ellis

" Ça commence par cent pages brillantes, drôles, méchantes, sur la journée de Victor Ward, un jeune Américain branché qui organise la soirée d'inauguration d'une boîte de nuit new-yorkaise. [...] …
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Homeland Earth

by Edgar Morin

Summary: Edgar Morin, one of the leading figures in European thought, challenges us to think differently about our past, our present, and our future. Morin points to the development of …