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The Interpreter by Alice Kaplan
Booksplease Price: $37.65"No story of World War II" is more triumphant than the liberation of France, made famous in countless photos of Parisians waving American flags and kissing GIs as columns of troops paraded down the... -
States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic by Professor Alice Kaplan
RRP: $38.08Booksplease Price: $31.06States of Plague examines Albert Camus's novel The Plague as a palimpsest of our own pandemic life, its account of the psychology and politics of quarantine uncannily relevant to our time. One of... -
States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic by Alice Kaplan 9780226833309
RRP: $30.94Booksplease Price: $29.30States of Plague examines Albert Camus's novel as a palimpsest of pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a public health crisis. As one of the most discussed... -
Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis by Alice Kaplan 9780226054872
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On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses by Professor Louis Althusser
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $41.32Louis Althusser's renowned short text "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" radically transformed the concept of the subject, the understanding of the state and even the very frameworks of... -
Critics at Work: Interviews 1993-2003 by Jeffrey J. Williams 9780814793909 [USED COPY]
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $7.14Featuring interviews with nineteen leading U.S. literary and cultural critics, Critics at Work offers a unique picture of recent developments in literary studies, critical theory, American studies,... -
Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World by Albert Camus
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $32.82Albert Camus's lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South America in the 1940s, available again in a new translation. In March 1946, the young Albert Camus crossed from... -
Frail Riffs: The Rules of the Game, Volume 4 by Michel Leiris 9780300264852
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $33.13The fourth and final volume of Michel Leiris's renowned autobiography, now available in English for the first time, translated by Richard Sieburth "Reading Frail Riffs, appearing in English nearly... -
Critics at Work: Interviews 1993-2003 by Jeffrey J. Williams 9780814793893 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $20.47Featuring interviews with nineteen leading U.S. literary and cultural critics, Critics at Work offers a unique picture of recent developments in literary studies, critical theory, American studies,... -
The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris Jonathan Kirsch 9780871407405
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $29.27On the morning of November 7, 1938, Herschel Grynszpan, a desperate seventeen-year-old Jewish refugee, walked into the German embassy in Paris and shot Ernst vom Rath, a Nazi diplomat. Two days later... -
Algerian Chronicles by Albert Camus 9780674416758
RRP: $42.72Booksplease Price: $37.46More than fifty years after Algerian independence, Albert Camus' Algerian Chronicles appears here in English for the first time. Published in France in 1958, the same year the Algerian War brought... -
The Difficulty of Being a Dog by Roger Grenier 9780226308289
Booksplease Price: $37.65The forty-three lovingly crafted vignettes within The Difficulty of Being a Dog dig elegantly to the center of a long, mysterious, and often intense relationship: that between human beings and dogs... -
Fable for Another Time by Mary Hudson 9780803264243
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $41.03Fable for Another Time is one of the most significant and far-reaching literary texts of postwar France. Composed in the tumultuous aftermath of World War II, largely in the Danish prison cell where... -
The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism by Diane P. Freedman 9780822312857 [USED COPY]
RRP: $223.72Booksplease Price: $2.45For a long time now, readers and scholars have strained against the limits of traditional literary criticism, whose precepts-above all, "objectivity"-seem to have so little to do with the highly... -
Friend and Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both by Adam D. Galinsky
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.16Is it in our best interest to compete or to cooperate?Some have argued that humans are fundamentally competitive and that pursuing our self-interest is the best way to get ahead. Others believe that... -
Bequest and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent's Death by Nancy K. Miller
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.82"In a book that will change the ways we think about autobiography and criticism, Nancy K. Miller produces poignant revelations about what it means to live with a dying parent-as a son or daughter, as... -
The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas by Robert Zaretsky 9780226549330
Booksplease Price: $52.34Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders," Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In... -
American Born: An Immigrant's Story, a Daughter's Memoir by Rachel M. Brownstein 9780226823065
RRP: $38.08Booksplease Price: $31.58An incisive memoir of Rachel M. Brownstein's seemingly quintessential Jewish mother, a resilient and courageous immigrant in New York. When she arrived alone in New York in 1924, eighteen-year-old... -
The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France by James McAuley
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $29.27A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destruction "The depths of French anti-Semitism is the stunning subject that Mr... -
The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas by Robert Zaretsky
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $22.02Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders," Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In... -
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz 9781035900046
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $46.48Frantz Fanon was born in Martinique, a French colony, in 1925. As a young man, he volunteered to fight in de Gaulle's army for the liberation of France, and trained to become a doctor and... -
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon Adam Shatz 9781035900053
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.40Longlisted for The Baillie Gifford Prize 2024 Frantz Fanon was born in Martinique, a French colony, in 1925. As a young man, he volunteered to fight in de Gaulle's army for the liberation of...