THE RAW AND THE COOKED: INTRODUCTION TO A SCIENCE OF MYTHOLOGY by Claud Lévi-Strauss
First edition (!) English printing of a foundational work from the father of structural anthropology. Harper Torchbooks
(1970—first edition!)
THE DIARY OF ANAIS NIN VOL. 3 + 4
First edition (!) printings of volumes 3 and 4 of the personal diaries of the French-American giant of erotic fiction.Harvest
(1969—first edition!)
DELTA OF VENUS by Anais Nin
The atmospheric and electrifying cornerstone of Nin’s erotic oeuvre ;-)Harcourt
(1977 [1969])
MISS LONELYHEARTS & THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West
A newspaper advice columnist undone by drinking, despair, and sex under capitalist alienation. Use it as a personal guidebook, if you must.New Directions
(1969 [1933])
FALLEN BODIES: POLLUTION, SEXUALITY, & DEMONOLOGY IN THE MIDDLE AGES by Dyan Elliot
Sex, pollution, demons. Turns out medieval clerics and eco punks have a lot in common.UPenn
(1999—rare find!)
CALIBAN AND THE WITCH: WOMEN, THE BODY AND PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION by Silvia Federici
How’s a witch supposed to survive capitalism???Autonomedia
(2008 [2004])
ODD GIRLS AND TWILIGHT LOVERS: A HISTORY OF LESBIAN LIFE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA by Lillian Faderman
The history behind your recent decision to Uhaul it.Penguin
(1991)
GALATEA 2.2 by Richard Powers
If Her and Ex Machina had a literary baby conceived by a Nobel Prize winning author.Picador
(1995)
THE DOOR by Magda Szabó
Did you know how good Hungarian literature is? You do now, thanks to the NYRB translation of this haunting portrait of feminine intimacy.NYRB
(2005 [1987])
……AND THE DOGS WERE SILENT by Aimé Césaire
A lost play by a founder of the Negritude movement found new life through its rediscovery in 2008. Parallel English-French printing.Duke
(2008 [1947])
SEDUCED BY STORY: THE USE AND ABUSE OF NARRATIVE by Peter Brooks
Find out why you’re so obsessed with that fictional anime boy.NYRB
(2022)
FATEFUL TRIANGLE: THE UNITED STATES, ISRAEL, AND THE PALESTINIANS by Noam Chomsky
Chomsky on a defining issue of our lives.Haymarket
(2014 [1999])
THE LOFT GENERATION: FROM THE DE KOONINGS TO TWOMBLY: PORTRAITS AND SKETCHES, 1942-2011 by Edith Schloss.
A memoire of the Manhattan art scene before it became insufferable.FSG
(2021, first ed.)