More new books in Graduate Services this month. (No alarms and no surprises there.) The big names with the big brains are here–Deleuze, Derrida, and Jameson–along with the big hearts–Ashbery, Beckett, Baldwin, Wakoski, and Oates. But that’s not all, if you come in at all in the next month, you’ll find our new book shelf containes some distinguished UC Berkeley professors (well, books by them that is): Eric Naiman, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Ishmael Reed, and Mark Brillant (come read his book and see if the man lives up to the name). And if you can’t wait for the next event to be put on by the Townsend Center here at UC Berkeley, you can come on over to Graduate Services and read numbers 2 and 3 of the Townsend Papers in the Humanities series–No. 1 is already in our collection. It’s just like being there, but you’re here. February. What a month! Enjoy.
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare: A Longman Cultural Edition edited by Oliver Arnold
The Third Citizen: Shakespeare’s Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons by Oliver Arnold
The Townsend Papers in the Humanities No. 2: Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech by Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Saba Mahmood
John Ashbery: Collected Poems 1956-1987 by John Ashbery
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings by James Baldwin
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett with a preface by Mary Bryden
The Townsend Papers in the Humanities No.3: Art and Aesthetics After Adorno by J.M. Bernstein, Claudia Brodsky, Anthony J. Cascardi, Thierry de Duve, Ales Erjavec, Robert Kaufman, and Fred Rush
Random Possession by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Travels: Collected Writings, 1950-93 by Paul Bowles
The Color of America Has Changed: How Racial Diversity Shaped Civil Rights Reform in California, 1941-1978 by Mark Brilliant
Empiricism and Subjectivity: An Essay on Hume’s Theory of Human Nature by Gilles Deleuze
Athens, Still Remains: The Photography of Jean-Francois Bonhomme by Jacques Derrida
A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire by M. Sukru Hanioglu
Fin de Siecle Beirut: The Making of an Ottoman Provincial Captial by Jen Hanssen
Valences of the Dialectic by Fredric Jameson
Contingency in a Sacred Law: Legal and Ethical Norms in the Muslim Fiqh by Baber Johansen
Lean Tales by James Kelman, Agnes Owens, and Alasdair Gray
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East by Ussama Makdisi
School by David Mamet
Elsewhere, Within Here: Immigration, Refugeeism, and the Boundary Event by Trinh T. Minh-ha
Ottoman Warfare, 1500-1700 by Rhodes Murphey
Nabokov, Perversely by Eric Naiman
In Rough Country: Essays and Reviews by Joyce Carol Oates
A Companion to Portuguese Literature edited by Stephen Parkinson, Claudia Pazos Alonso, and T.F. Earle
The Plays by Ishmael Reed
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the America’s, 1900-2002 edited by Ishmael Reed
The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre by Jean-Paul Sartre edited by Robert Denoon Cumming
The Diamond Dog: Poems by Diane Wakoski
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems by Alice Walker