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.
Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow by Elizabeth Abel
Nudities by Giorgio Agamben
Democracy In What State? edited by Giorgio Agamben
The Art of Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter
Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible by Robert Alter
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue by W.H. Auden
The Communist Hypothesis by Alain Badiou
Tom Stoppard: A Bibliographical History by William Baker and Gerald N. Wachs
Incidents by Roland Barthes
Mourning Diary: October 26.1977-September 15, 1979 by Roland Barthes
The Agony of Power by Jean Baudrillard
The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford by Wendell Berry
Elizabeth Bishop And The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence edited by Joelle Biele
Poems by Elizabeth Bishop
Prose by Elizabeth Bishop
Political Writings, 1953-1993 by Maurice Blanchot
Talking into the Ear of a Donkey by Robert Bly
Oxford Dictionary of Critical Theory by Ian Buchanan
Heisenberg in the Atomic Age: Science and the Public Sphere by Cathryn Carson
Love and Longing in Bombay: Stories by Vikram Chandra
Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad: Suspense, A Novel edited by Gene M. Moore
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad: Youth, Heart of Darkness, and The End of the Tether edited by Owen Knowles
The Birth of Modern Europe: Culture and Economy, 1400-1800: Essays in Honor of Jan de Vries edited by Laura Cruz and Joel Mokyr
Spirit of Resistance: Dutch Clandestine Literature During the Nazi Occupation by Jeroen Dewulf
Theodore Dreiser: Political Writings edited by Jude Davies
The Journals and Diaries of E.M. Forster v.1-3 edited by Philip Gardner
Renaissance Beasts: Of Animals, Humans, and Other Wonderful Creatures edited by Erica Fudge
Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray
A Life in Pictures by Alasdair Gray
Unlikely Stories Mostly by Alasdair Gray
On Teaching Poetry by Robert Hass
The Concept of Time: The First Draft of Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life In North China by David Johnson
Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War by Anton Kaes
Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty by Paul W. Kahn
You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free by James Kelman
Indelible Acts by A.L. Kennedy
Looking For the Possible Dance by A.L. Kennedy
Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains by A.L. Kennedy
Original Bliss by A.L. Kennedy
Hatred and Forgiveness by Julia Kristeva
In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal by Niklaus Largier
Letters to Monica by Philip Larkin edited by Anthony Thwaite
On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods by Bruno Latour
The Gadamer Dictionary by Chris Lawn and Niall Keane
Race by David Mamet
Lives of Confucius: Civilization’s Greatest Sage Through the Ages by Michael Nylan and Thomas Wilson
Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context by Tejaswini Niranjana
A Widow’s Story by Joyce Carol Oates
On What Matters v.1-2 by Derek Parfit (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures)
New Selected Poems and Translations by Ezra Pound edited by Richard Sieburth
Ezra Pound to His Parents: Letters 1895-1929 edited by Mary De Rachewiltz, A. David Moody, and Joanna Moody
Mixing It Up: Taking On the Media Bullies and Other Reflections by Ishmael Reed
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010 by Adrienne Rich
The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age by Harriet Ritvo
The Rorty Reader by Richard Rorty edited by Christopher J. Voparil and Richard J. Bernstein
Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return by Miryam Sas
Hunger: A Modern History by James Vernon
Death Likes It Hot by Gore Vidal writing as Edgar Box
Native Land: Stop Eject by Paul Virilio, Raymond Depardon, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan, and Ben Rubin
The Complete Short Story Omnibus by H.G. Wells
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf: Between the Acts edited by Mark Hussey