Brevity Is Not The Soul Of Walt Whitman: New Books In Graduate Services In March

A pretty good study haul of books this month. You don’t believe me, take a look for youself. Just scroll down. Leaves some comments if you want. Enjoy.

 

barthes

Camera Lucida: Reflections On Photography by Roland Barthes with a forward by Geoff Dyer

cazeaux

The Continental Aesthetics Reader (Second Edition) Edited by Clive Cazeaux

debord

Society Of The Spectacle by Guy Debord translated by Ken Knabb

derrida

The Beast and the Sovereign Volume II by Jacques Derrida

derrida

Voice And Phenomenon: Introduction To The Problem Of The Sign In Husserl’s Phenomenology by Jacques Derrida

fitzgerald

The Cruise Of The Rolling Junk by F. Scott Fitzgerald

no more parades

Parade’s End: No More Parades by Ford Madox Ford

hemingway

In Our Time/De Nos Jours by Ernest Hemingway

iggers

Historiography In The Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity To The Postmodern Challenge: With A New Epilogue by Georg G. Iggers

isherwood

The Sixties: Diaries, Volume Two: 1960-1969 by Christopher Isherwood edited by Katherine Bucknell

jeffers

The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers With Selected Letters of Una Jeffers Volumes 1 and 2 edited by James Karman

kelman

Kieron Smith, Boy by James Kelman

koflosky

Evening’s Empire: A History Of The Night In Early Modern Europe by Craig Koslofsky

larkin

The Complete Poems by Philip Larkin edited by Archie Burnett

levenson'

The Cambridge Companion To Modernism (Second Edition) edited by Michael Levenson

nelson

Records Of Early English Drama: Inns Of Court v.1-3 edited by Alan H. Nelson and John R. Elliot, Jr.

nietzsche

Dawn: Thoughts On The Presumption Of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche

oates

The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates

paige

Before Fiction: The Ancien Regime Of The Novel by Nicholas D. Paige

updike

Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism by John Updike Edited by Christopher Carduff

virilio

The Futurism of the Instant: Stop-Eject by Paul Virilio

white

Early Christian Lives translated and edited by Carolinne White

williams

By Word Of Mouth: Poems From The Spanish, 1916-1959 by William Carlos Williams


Februready Or Not, Here We Come: New Books In Graduate Services In February

Like almost always, some great books made it to the Graduate Services shelves in February. And being February, the month of the valentine, why not come down and be a part of the letters of T.S. Elliot, Langston Hughes, and Gertrude Stein. You’re the reader, they are the writers, and with a little imagination these letters could be their valentines to you. Strike up a bond and in the process be woohooed. No need to limit yourself to books of letters though, jump on into any book here in Graduate Services and be a part of the February experience. Because like a valentine given needs a valentine given back to really be a worthwhile valentine, books need readers to really be worth their weight in dead treeness. Enjoy.

 

amis

Complete Stories by Kingsley Amis

barth

Every Third Thought: A Novel In Five Seasons by John Barth

conrad

Last Essays (The Cambridge Edition Of The Works Of Joesph Conrad) by Joseph Conrad edited by Harold Ray and J.H. Stape

eliot

The Letters Of T.S. Eliot Volume I: 1898-1922 (Revised Edition) edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton

foucault

Le Corps Utopique: Suivi de les Heterotopies by Michel Foucault

 

gray

How We Should Rule Ourselves by Alasdair Gray and Adam Tomkins

gray

1982, Janine by Alasdair Gray

hughes

Langston Hughes And The South African Drum Generation: The Correspondence edited by Shane Graham and John Walters

hoffman

The Politics of Sociability: Freemasonry and German Civil Society, 1840-1918 by Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

kennedy

What Becomes by A.L. Kennedy

lawrence

Quetzalcoatl (The Cambridge Edition Of The Letters and Works of D.H. Lawrence) by D.H. Lawrence edited by N.H. Reeve

mclaughlin

Syntactic Borrowing In Contemporary French: A Linguistic Analysis of News Translation (Research Monographs In French Studies 30) by Mairi McLaughlin

miller

Arthur Miller: A Descriptive Bibliography by George W. Crandell

pirillo

Filosofia Ed Eresia Nell’inghilterra Del Tardo Cinquecento: Bruno, Sidney E I Dissidenti Religiosi Italianai by Diego Pirillo

ranciere

Athusser’s Lesson by Jacques Ranciere

ranciere

The Emancipated Spectator by Jacques Ranciere

sim

The Routledge Comapnion to Postmodernism Third Edition edited by Stuart Sim

stein

The Letters Of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: Composition As Conversation edited by Susan Holbrook and Thomas Dilworth

stein

Stanzas In Meditation: The Corrected Edition by Gertrude Stein edited by Susannah Hollister and Emily Setina


Some Tricky Treats: New Books In Graduate Services In October

Trick or Treat? How about some books that might be a little tricky, but after some time spent with them turn out to be treats? Because Graduate Services has got these for your costume clad identity to scope out. So, take a gander at what’s below and then come on in to get on down. Wear a costume if you like, but just remember to bring your UCB ID card with you to get inside. Enjoy.

 

badiou

Wittgenstein’s Antiphilosophy by Alain Badiou

chandra

Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra

empson

Selected Letters of William Empson edited by John Haffenden

fitzgerald

A Short Autobiography by F. Scott Fitzgerald

gokturk

Germany In Transit: Nation and Migration, 1955-2005 edited by Deniz Gokturk, David Gramling, and Anton Kaes

huxly

Aun Aprendo: A Comprehensive Bibliography of the Writings of Aldous Leonard Huxley compiled by David J. Bromer

inalacik

An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, vols. 1-2 edited by Halil Inalcik and Donald Quataert

jackson

Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics by Shannon Jackson

kennedy

Tea and Biscuits by A.L. Kennedy

kureishi

The World and The Bomb by Hanif Kureishi

miller

Collected Plays: 1944-1961 by Arthur Miller

olson

The Principle of Measure in Composition by Field: Projective Verse II by Charles Olson

rushdie

The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie

rushdie

BFI Film Classics: The WIzard of Oz by Salman Rushdie

todorov

In Defence of the Enlightenment by Tzvetan Todorov

walker

The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting With The Angels Who Have Returned WIth My Memories, Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splender, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses, & Babe: A Memoir by Alice Walker

woolf

Translations From the Russian by Virginia Woolf and S.S. Koteliansky

yeats

W.B. Yeats and George Yeats: The Letters edited by Ann Saddlemyer

yeh

Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China, 1843-1949 by Wen-Hsin Yeh


Three’s Company Performed By The Royal Shakespeare Company: New Books In Graduate Services In November

The third times a charm must mean three is a very lucky number. Well, what do you know, but Graduate Services received three books in November. A lucky month for those Hemingway scholars and Egyptian history buffs, as well as for those French reading philosophical cinephiles. And if you have found some way to synthesize the scholarship in these three books then you have turned three’s a crowd into three’s company. Shakespeare by way of Mister Furley. Enjoy.

 

grissom

Ernest Hemingway: A Descriptive Bibliography by C. Edgar Grissom

mikhail

Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History by Alan Mikhail

montebello

Deleuze, Philosophie et Cinema by Pierre Montebello


The Notebooks of Robert Frosty the Snowman: New Books In Graduate Services In December

A Santa’s bag full of books arrived here in Graduate Services before Christmas this year. I am talking a good haul for the month of December my friend. Just scroll on down and take a look see. I bet there are a few down there you hope wind up in your stocking the morning of the 25th. I’m fired up for the second volume of the Letters of Samuel Beckett myself. I just hope my stocking can hold it up without falling into the fire place, as these letters do not look to be minimal in the least. Hey, I love the Graduate Services collection, but sometimes I need to read at home. And not only can you not take books out of Graduate Services–no, not even me–but Graduate Services will be closed for this last week of December. You remember that earlier post don’t you? Well, they will all be here when Graduate Services opens up again January 2nd, 2012. Enjoy them then and enjoy your time off from the library between now and then.

 

badiou

Five Lessons On Wagner by Alain Badiou

beckett

The Letters of Samuel Beckett Volume II: 1941-1956 edited by Lois More Overbeck

bowen

Elizabeth Bowen’s Selected Irish Writings edited by Eibhear Walshe

de cluny

Vita Sancti Geraldi Auriliacensis by Odon de Cluny edited by Anne-Marie Bultot-Verleysen

wortham

The Derrida Dictionary by Simon Morgan Wortham

feyerabend

Against Method: New Edition by Paul Feyerabend

frost

The Notebooks of Robert Frost edited by Robert Faggen

gray

The Ends of Our Tethers: 13 Stories by Alasdair Gray

gray

A History Maker by Alasdair Gray

grosz

The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely by Elizabeth Grosz

guare

A Free Man Of Color by John Guare

kelman

An Old Pub Near the Angel And Other Stories by James Kelman

kelman

If It Is Your Life by James Kelman

kennedy

Day by A.L. Kennedy

kureishi

Dreaming and Scheming: Reflections on Writing and Politics by Hanif Kureishi

sim

The Lyotard Dictionary edited by Stuart Sim

matthiessen

The Birds of Heaven: Travels With Cranes by Peter Matthiessen

matthiessen

Tigers in the Snow by Peter Matthiessen

orwell

George Orwell: Corresponance avec son traducteur Rene-Noel Raimbault

padilla

The Daring Flight of My Pen: Cultural Politics and Gaspar Perez de Villagra’s Historia de la Nueve, Mexico, 1610 by Genaro M. Padilla

pinsky

Selected Poems by Robert Pinsky

prickett

European Romanticism: A Reader edited by Stephen Prickett

ranciere

Aux Bords du Politique by Jacques Ranciere

ranciere

Malaise dans l’Esthetique by Jacques Ranciere

reed

Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media:  The Return of the Nigger Breakers by Ishmael Reed

rochberg

Babylonian Horoscopes by Francesca Rochberg

rublack

A Concise Companion to History edited by Ulinka Rublack

williams

Television: Technology and Cultural Form by Raymond Williams

zizek

The essential Zizek: The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology by Slavoj Zizek

zizek

First as Tragedy, Then as Farce by Slavoj Zizek


Putting The You In Usual: New Books In Graduate Services In September

New Books in Graduate Servcies. Like usual every month. Just sitting here on the shelves. Ready to be read. By you. There’s poetry: Ashbery turning a phrase of Rimbaud into Ashbery. Photography?: Derrida letting the spiel loose on the subject. Plays: Albee, Fry, Kureishi, and Williams have some words you can act out to. Playwright who hates himself: David Mamet’s has some secret knowledge you might not want to act on. UC Berkeley faculty publication: Beshara Doumani letting you know about academic freedom after September 11th now that it started fifth grade this fall. Another UC Berkeley faculty publication featuring philosophy: Suzanne Guerlac introducing you to Henri Bergson. More philosophy: Heidegger is going to do some introducing of his own–the world to thinking and poetizing. Still more philosophy: All eight volumes of the History of Continental Philosophy; and Lyotard is going to figure into all this discourse somehow. Modern Authors who are not playwrights or poets already mentioned above: Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, and Margret Drabble I present to you. Beckett: There’s always room for Beckett. Enjoy.

 

albee

Me, Myself and I by Eward Albee

ashbery

Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud translated by John Ashbery

beckett

Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose, 1950-1976 by Samuel Beckett

catanese

The Problem of the Color[blind]: Racial Transgression and the Politics of Black Performance by Brandi Wilkins Catanese

derrida

Copy, Archive, Signature: A Conversation on Photography by Jacques Derrida

doumani

Academic Freedom After September 11 edited by Beshara Doumani

drabble

A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories by Margaret Drabble

drabble

A Writer’s Britain by Margaret Drabble

feldman

Binding Words: Conscience and Rhetoric in Hobbes, Hegel, and Heidegger by Karen S. Feldman

fry

Plays 2: Venus Observed, The Dark is Light Enough, Curtmantle by Christopher Fry

gottreich

The Mella of Marrakesh: Jewish and Muslim Space in Morocco’s Red City by Emily Gottreich

gray

Collected Verses by Alasdair Gray

gray

A Gray Play Book: Of Long and Short Plays for Stage, Puppet-Theatre, Radio & Television, Acted Between 1956 adn 2009, With An Unused Opera Libretto, A Film Script of the Novel Poor Things and Excerpts From the Pictorial Storyboard of the Novel Lanark by Alasdair Gray

gray

Poor Things: Episodes From the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D. Scottish Public Health Officer by Alasdair Gray

guerlac

Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson by Suzanne Guerlac

heidegger

Introduction to Philosophy–Thinking and Poetizing by Martin Heidegger

iarocci

Properties of Modernity: Romantic Spain, Modern Europe, and the Legacies of Empire by Michael Iarocci

kelman

“And the Judges Said…”: Essays by James Kelman

kureishi

Collected Stories by Hanif Kureishi

kureishi

The Mother by Hanif Kureishi

lyotard

Discourse, Figure by Jean-Francois Lyotard

mamet

The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture by David Mamet

orwell

A Life In Letters by George Orwell edited by Peter Davison

paperno

Suicide As A Cultural Institution In Dostoevsky’s Russia by Irina Paperno

schrift

The History of Continental Philosophy volumes 1-8 edited by Alan D. Schrift

veldhuis

Religion, Literature, and Scholarship: The Sumerian Composition Nanse and the Birds with a Catalogue of Sumerian Bird Names by Niek Veldhuis

de vries

The First Modern Economy: Success, Failure, and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500-1815 by Jan de Vries and Ad van der Woude

woolf

Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room: The Holograph Draft edited by Edward L. Bishop

williams

The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays by Tennessee Williams

yeats

The Resurrection: Manuscript Materials by W.B. Yeats edited by Jared Curtis and Selina Guinness


Like AXE For Your Brain: New Books in Graduate Services in August

Well, another school year is here and another batch of new books in Graduate Services waiting to greet you as you return from your drunken summer in Ibiza. Or was it Myconos? Anyway, it doesn’t matter. The important thing is you made it back and Graduate Services has books for you to sidle up to. Remember, they are what will help you get through this program and to that degree. I’m taking Fahrenheit here, not Celsius. But don’t sweat the dog days of summer this semester, just come on around and let the knowledge be attracted to you: Modern Persian Literature; the idea of communism; subjegated animals; Italian colonalism; the crisis of imprisonment; the Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian language; the power of religion in the public sphere; the literature of uncounted experience; or the Hegel dictionary. It’s your choice. You’re here. You’re the scholar. Graduate Services: It’s like AXE for your brain. Enjoy.

 

ahmadi

Modern Persian Literature in Afghanistan: Anomalous Visions of History and Form by Wali Ahmadi

alexander

Bosnian, Croatian,Serbian: A Grammer with Sociolinguistic Commentary by Ronelle Alexander

balibar

French Philosophy Since 1945: Problems, Concepts, Inventions edited by Etienne Balibar and John Rajchman with Anne Boyman

baudrillard

Carnival and Cannibal/Ventriloquous Evil by Jean Baudrillard

ben-ghiat

Italian Colonialism edited by Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Mia Fuller

berssenbrugge

Concordance by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Kiki Smith

butler

The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere by Judith Butler, Jurgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West

derrida

Parages by Jacques Derrida

douzinas

The Idea of Communism edited by Costas Douzinas and Slavoj Zizek

francois

Open Secrets: The Literature of Uncounted Experience by Anne-Lise Francois

goodman

The Paul Goodman Reader edited by Taylor Stoehr

gordon

Stanislavsky in America: An Actor’s Workbook by Mel Gordon

healey

The Ruins of the New Argentina: Peronism and the Remaking of San Juan After the 1944 Earthquake by Mark A. Healey

larkin

Al-Mutanabbi: Voice of the ‘Abbasis Poetical Ideal by Margaret Larkin

the hegel dictionary

The Hegel Dictionary by Glenn Alexander Magee

welty

What There Is To Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell edited by Suzanne Marrs

mclennan

The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941 by Rebecca M. McLennan

negri

Art & Multitude: Nine Letters on Art, Followed by Metamorphoses: Art and Immaterial Labor by Antonio Negri

negri

Diary of an Escape by Antonio Negri

paperno

Stories of the Soviet Experience: Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams by Irina Paperno

rochberg

The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture by Francesca Rochberg

de vries

The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present by Jan de Vries

wolloch

Subjugated Animals: Animals and Anthropocentrism in Early Modern European Culture by Nathaniel Wolloch

woolf

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf, The Waves edited by Michael Herbert and Susan Sellers


Dropping Names and Falling Higher: New Books In Graduate Services in July

What a month July was! Look at all these books that arrived! Can you believe it! I think July 2011 will be remembered more for how many books arrived here in Graduate Services than this past July 4th you can’t remember or forget (the conundrum of a very good time). Though I can’t remember what the record was to verify this fact, the amount of books coming in to Graduate Services must be a new monthly record! Agamben, Barthes, Blanchot, Baudrillard, Auden, Badiou, Berry, Bishop, Bly, Kristeva, Kennedy, Mamet, Latour, Rorty, Rich, Pound, Oates. And then there are books by UC Berkeley faculty memebers Abel, Alter, Chandra, Hass, Fudge, Reed, Kaes, Sas, Vernon, Nylan, Largier, as well as a book of essays in honor of Jan de Vries. I’m dropping names like they are rocks and I’m looking down a great big well. And you know what. Maybe I am. A great big well of knowledge right here on the Graduate Services new book shelves. And now my time is up and I didn’t even get to mention that the first books from Alasdair Gray, the newest member of the Modern Authors Collection, arrived in July too. Drop his name and see what happens.

 

abel

Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow by Elizabeth Abel

agamben

Nudities by Giorgio Agamben

agamben

Democracy In What State? edited by Giorgio Agamben

alter

The Art of Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter

alter

Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible by Robert Alter

auden

The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue by W.H. Auden

badiou

The Communist Hypothesis by Alain Badiou

stoppard

Tom Stoppard: A Bibliographical History by William Baker and Gerald N. Wachs

barthes

Incidents by Roland Barthes

barthes

Mourning Diary: October 26.1977-September 15, 1979 by Roland Barthes

baudrillard

The Agony of Power by Jean Baudrillard

berry

The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford by Wendell Berry

bishop

Elizabeth Bishop And The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence edited by Joelle Biele

bishop

Poems by Elizabeth Bishop

bishop

Prose by Elizabeth Bishop

blanchot

Political Writings, 1953-1993 by Maurice Blanchot

bly

Talking into the Ear of a Donkey by Robert Bly

buchanan

Oxford Dictionary of Critical Theory by Ian Buchanan

carson

Heisenberg in the Atomic Age: Science and the Public Sphere by Cathryn Carson

chandra

Love and Longing in Bombay: Stories by Vikram Chandra

chandra

Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra

conrad

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad: Suspense, A Novel edited by Gene M. Moore

conrad

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad: Youth, Heart of Darkness, and The End of the Tether edited by Owen Knowles

cruz

The Birth of Modern Europe: Culture and Economy, 1400-1800: Essays in Honor of Jan de Vries edited by Laura Cruz and Joel Mokyr

dewulf

Spirit of Resistance: Dutch Clandestine Literature During the Nazi Occupation by Jeroen Dewulf

dreiser

Theodore Dreiser: Political Writings edited by Jude Davies

forster

The Journals and Diaries of E.M. Forster v.1-3 edited by Philip Gardner

fudge

Renaissance Beasts: Of Animals, Humans, and Other Wonderful Creatures edited by Erica Fudge

gray

Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray

gray

A Life in Pictures by Alasdair Gray

gray

Unlikely Stories Mostly by Alasdair Gray

hass

On Teaching Poetry by Robert Hass

heidegger

The Concept of Time: The First Draft of Being and Time by Martin Heidegger

johnson

Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life In North China by David Johnson

kaes

Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War by Anton Kaes

kahn

Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty by Paul W. Kahn

kelman

You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free by James Kelman

kennedy

Indelible Acts by A.L. Kennedy

kennedy

Looking For the Possible Dance by A.L. Kennedy

kennedy

Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains by A.L. Kennedy

kennedy

Original Bliss by A.L. Kennedy

kristeva

Hatred and Forgiveness by Julia Kristeva

largier

In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal by Niklaus Largier

larkin

Letters to Monica by Philip Larkin edited by Anthony Thwaite

latour

On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods by Bruno Latour

lawn

The Gadamer Dictionary by Chris Lawn and Niall Keane

mamet

Race by David Mamet

nylan wilson

Lives of Confucius: Civilization’s Greatest Sage Through the Ages by Michael Nylan and Thomas Wilson

niranjana

Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context by Tejaswini Niranjana

oates

A Widow’s Story by Joyce Carol Oates

parfit

On What Matters v.1-2 by Derek Parfit (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures)

pound

New Selected Poems and Translations by Ezra Pound edited by Richard Sieburth

pound

Ezra Pound to His Parents: Letters 1895-1929 edited by Mary De Rachewiltz, A. David Moody, and Joanna Moody

reed

Mixing It Up: Taking On the Media Bullies and Other Reflections by Ishmael Reed

rich

Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010 by Adrienne Rich

ritvo

The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age by Harriet Ritvo

rorty

The Rorty Reader by Richard Rorty edited by Christopher J. Voparil and Richard J. Bernstein

sas

Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return by Miryam Sas

vernon

Hunger: A Modern History by James Vernon

vidal

Death Likes It Hot by Gore Vidal writing as Edgar Box

virilio

Native Land: Stop Eject by Paul Virilio, Raymond Depardon, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan, and Ben Rubin

wells

The Complete Short Story Omnibus by H.G. Wells

woolf

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf: Between the Acts edited by Mark Hussey


This Ain’t No Room for the Summertime Blues: New Books in Graduate Services in June

It’s summertime, and although not many new books came in this June, that doesn’t mean the summertime blues are hanging around here. No sir, that is not the case here in Graduate Services because the ten books we did get this June are ten great summertime reads. For example, the Fourth of July is coming up and you’ll probably be saying the Pledge of Allegiance quite a bit, so why not come here a few days before and read Giorgio Agamben’s latest book, The Sacraement of Language, which is an archaeology of the oath. Don’t pledge blindly this Fourth of July holiday, pledge knowingly. Now, anyone one who knows anything knows nothing says summer fun like a manifesto, which is why kicking back in Graduate Services next to a window reading Alain Badiou’s Second Manifesto for Philosophy is the perfect way to spend a summer afternoon. The heat from the warm sun and the energy from so much proclaming just warms up those butterflys in your stomach. But don’t worry, it doesn’t get hot enough for them to curdle. And finally, if you are longing for those long discourses with faculty members you’re used to engaging in from August to May, well, we have a few books here from Lyn Hejinian and Ishmal Reed to get you engaged. A book of poetry, a book of essays about poetry, and a novel from these two should make you feel like the spring semester never ended and the summer one never began. Enjoy.

 

agamben

The Sacrament of Language: An Archaeology of the Oath (Homo Sacer II, 3) by Giorgio Agamben

bynum

Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe by Caroline Walker Bynum

badiou

Second Manifesto For Philosophy by Alain Badiou

hejinian

Sunflower by Jack Collom and Lyn Hejinian

snyder

The Etiquette of Freedom: Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and The Practice of the Wild edited by Paul Ebenkamp

hejinian

The Cold of Poetry by Lyn Hejinian

reed

Juice! by Ishmael Reed

robinson

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

sandywell

Dictionary of Visual DIscourse: A Dialectical Lexicon of Terms By Barry Sandywell

heidegger's philosophy

Historical Dictionary of Heidegger’s Philosophy 2nd Edition edited by Frank Schalow and Alfred Denker


I Am Glad Everything You Need Is Bullfighting: New Books in Graduate Services for May

It’s the month of May. The month that celebrates that wonderful auxiliary verb we all love. It expresses possibility as well as the ability and capacity to do something. And with that in mind, may  I introduce you to A.L. Kennedy. She is a writer, a comedian, and now she is a part of the Modern Authors Collection in Graduate Services. Three of her books are here now (So I Am Glad, Everything You Need, On Bullfighting) with more on the way in the coming months. After learning about being glad everything you need is bullfighting, may I suggest some other new titles for you to look into? The new one from UC Berkeley Emeritus professor Maxine Hong Kingston is ready to be read. A collection of Antonio Negri’s plays is here for your mind to perform. And if you really want to do some mental aerobics, there’s Hegel and Maurice Merleau-Ponty here to be your trainers. Add a little Ford Maddox Ford, Hanif Kureishi, Peter Matthiessen, and W.B. Yeats to the equation, and it looks like May may have the capicty to equal good days spent reading new books in Graduate Services. So gear up for getting down here to Graduate Services. You may like what you find.

 

ford

Parade’s End Volume One: Some Do Not…by Ford Madox Ford edited by Max Saunders

hegel

Encyclopedia of the Phiosophical Sciences in Basic Outline, Part I: Science of Logic by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

kennedy

Everything You Need by A.L. Kennedy

kennedy

On Bullfighting by A.L. Kennedy

kennedy'

So I Am Glad by A.L. Kennedy

kingstone

I Love A Broad Margin To My Life by Maxine Hong Kingstone

kureishi

Gabriel’s Gift by Hanif Kureishi

kureishi

Love in a Blue Time by Hanif Kureishi

little

…isms: Understanding Art by Stephen Little

matthiessen

Are We There Yet?: A Zen Journey Through Space and TIme by Peter Matthiessen and Peter Cunningham

matthiessen

Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can): Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution by Peter Matthiessen

merleau-ponty

Institution and Passivity: Course Notes From The College de France (1954-1955) by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

negri

Trilogy of Resistance by Antonio Negri

yeats

At the Hawk’s Well and The Cat and the Moon: Manuscript Materials (The Cornell Yeats) by W.B. Yeats edited by Andrew Parkin