Pioneering Indian Muslim feminist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain wrote speculative fiction, manifestoes, radical reportage, and incisive essays that transformed her experience of enforced segregation into unique interventions against gender oppression everywhere.
Alongside her pathbreaking feminist science fiction story “Sultana’s Dream,” this volume features fresh and exciting new translations of Rokeya Hossain’s key Bengali writings and a superbly informative introduction to her life and work.
Cover and eight interior illustrations by Chitra Ganesh.
“In her groundbreaking work of science-fiction, ‘Sultana’s Dream,’ the pioneering Bengali writer, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, imagines a world where gender roles are reversed, and women hold leadership positions. With its emphasis on education, technological advancements, and the power of women’s leadership, Hossain’s work remains vitally relevant today. Kudos to Ben Baer for his fine translations of these important texts.”
—Amitav Ghosh, author, most recently, of Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories
Image Making by Shelley Rice
Image Making chronicles Shelley Rice’s skillful navigation of two pivotal moments when the art world opened its previously narrow confines to include the true diversity of image production: the pluralism of New York in the 1970s and the global outreach of digital networks in the 2010s. Rice’s work is indispensable reading for anyone interested in contemporary art, the role of criticism, and the deep interdependence of images and social, cultural, and political forces.
“The photo criticism of Shelley Rice evolved in the space that was once called New Journalism and is now a venerable and still exciting, hybrid place of the objective (for want of a better word) and the personal. In Image Making: Essays on Visual Culture, 1978–2018, Rice’s wide-ranging observations about the art of creating photographs and its relationship to her own life are vivid, original, and profound.
—Kenneth E. Silver, Silver Professor of Art History Emeritus, New York University
“A spectacularly inventive novel…Reading it is like walking the half-deserted streets of Eliot’s famous poem. It is an unforgettable experience.”
—Patrick R. Query, author of Ritual and the Idea of Europe in Interwar Writing
“Ashley’s delightfully playful novel reminds us that we are still learning to read the poem that made Eliot famous. She offers us fun, but smart fun.”
—Michael Coyle, Colgate University
To Murder and Create is an extraordinarily creative and engaging historical novel loosely structured around T. S. Eliot’s paradigm-bending modernist poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Set in Boston of 1915, an array of eccentric and eminently charming tenants inhabit a boardinghouse sternly governed by a rule-bound yet likable landlady…a captivating glimpse of an authentically rendered bygone world brimming with timeless questions of the heart and mind.
“Groovy, Man is a refreshing take on the countercultural memoir. From drug-dealing to Greenpeace activism to multiple marriages and divorces, Tussman offers a warts-and-all look at his relationships and life choices. It’s an absorbing story, amusing, poignant, and full of insight into the joys and tribulations of the sixties generation in California.”
—Frank Zelko, author of Make It a Green Peace
“David Tussman was on the scene when the Free Speech Movement erupted out of the San Francisco Bay area and not long after when Greenpeace eco-freaks were confronting Russian whalers on the high seas. In Groovy, Man Tussman offers telling glimpses behind the scenes of the intrigue and dalliances of would-be rabble-rousing warriors.”
—Jon Hinck is a lawyer in private practice and the former Campaign Director for Greenpeace International
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—The Guardian
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