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Trilogy of Resistance by Antonio Negri 9780816672943
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53With Trilogy of Resistance, the political philosopher Antonio Negri extends his intervention in contemporary politics and culture into a new medium: drama. The three plays collected for the first... -
Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika by Tony Kushner
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.75Part Two of the two-part Angels in America, Tony Kushner's epic drama set during the Reagan years in America - now recognised as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century. Perestroika... -
The Proof Stage: How Theater Reveals the Human Truth of Mathematics by Stephen Abbott 9780691243375
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $30.24How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of mathematics to life on the stageThe discovery of alternate geometries, paradoxes of the... -
Weimar Germany's Left-Wing Intellectuals: A Political History of the Weltbuhne and Its Circle by Istvan Deak
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $123.42The Germany between the two world wars, which produced some of the greatest literary lights of the century, also produced a forum worthy of them: the brilliantly edited, crusading, lef-oriented (but... -
Weimar Germany's Left-Wing Intellectuals: A Political History of the Weltbuhne and Its Circle by Istvan Deak 9780520305649
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $74.43The Germany between the two world wars, which produced some of the greatest literary lights of the century, also produced a forum worthy of them: the brilliantly edited, crusading, lef-oriented (but... -
Theaters of Justice: Judging, Staging, and Working Through in Arendt, Brecht, and Delbo by Yasco Horsman
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53What role do legal trials have in collective processes of coming to terms with a history of mass violence? How does the theatrical structure of a criminal trial facilitate and limit national... -
Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.75Part One of the two-part Angels in America, Tony Kushner's epic drama set during the Reagan years in America - now recognised as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century. Prior, visited... -
The Last Days of Mankind: The Complete Text by Karl Kraus
Booksplease Price: $27.73Kraus's iconic WWI drama, a satirical indictment of the glory of war, now in English in its entirety for the first time "[A] superb translation."-Bill Marx, Arts Fuse One hundred years after... -
The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.10The Emperor's Tomb is a magically evocative, haunting elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and to the passing of time and the loss of youth and friends. Prophetic and... -
Juja by Nino Haratischvili 9781914484018
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25Published for the first time in English, the sweeping debut novel set in bohemian Paris, by the author of international bestseller The Eighth Life. In 1953, a teenage girl, Jeanne Sare, jumps in... -
Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler's Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis Volker Ullrich 9781324095651
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $30.56As the great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography, written in exile, "I have a pretty thorough knowledge of history, but never, to my recollection, has it produced such madness... -
Two Plays of Weimar Germany: Youth Is a Sickness and Criminals by Ferdinand Bruckner 9780810137721
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.30If a theater-goer in Weimar Berlin were asked to name the best living German playwright, the answer would not be Bertolt Brecht or Georg Kaiser or Arnolt Bronnen. It would be Ferdinand Bruckner. ... -
Elder David J. Constantine 9781780370989
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39Like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, David Constantine's poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. Many of the poems in his latest collection spring from... -
Love, Sex, Death and Words: Surprising Tales From a Year in Literature Jon Sutherland 9781848311640
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $28.63Love, sex, death, boredom, ecstasy, existential angst, political upheaval - the history of literature offers a rich and varied exploration of the human condition across the centuries. In this... -
February 1933: The Winter of Literature by Wittstock
Booksplease Price: $77.45It all happened in a flash. February 1933 was the month in which the fate of German writers, as for so many others, was decided. In a tensely spun narrative, Uwe Wittstock tells the story of a demise... -
February 1933: The Winter of Literature by Uwe Wittstock 9781509525515
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.43It all happened in a flash. February 1933 was the month in which the fate of German writers, as for so many others, was decided. In a tensely spun narrative, Uwe Wittstock tells the story of a demise... -
The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume II: A Novel by Peter Weiss
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $29.50A major literary event, the publication of the second volume of Peter Weiss's three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature... -
Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World by Howard Pollack 9780190280239
Booksplease Price: $75.78A composer and lyricist of enormous innovation and influence, Marc Blitzstein remains one of the most versatile and fascinating figures in the history of American music, his creative output running... -
Angels in America (new edition) by Tony Kushner
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.32America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. Originally premiered in... -
Aleister Crowley: the Beast in Berlin: Art, Sex, and Magick in the Weimar Republic by Tobias Churton
Booksplease Price: $41.65Gnostic poet, painter, writer, and magician Aleister Crowley arrived in Berlin on April 18, 1930. As prophet of his syncretic religion "Thelema," he wanted to be among the leaders of art and thought,...