This Week’s Hot Reviews

Marrakech Noir
Edited by Yassin Adnan | Akashic Books | 9781617754739 | August 2018

“Thanks to all of this diversity and difference found in just one place, Marrakech supplies everyone with what they’re looking for. The work, as a whole, does a stellar job at showcasing the city’s importance, influence, and cultures . . . Whether you’ve been to Marrakech or not, this anthology promises to take you there.”—Asymptote Magazine

Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism
John Patrick Leary | Haymarket Books | 9781608465446 | January 2019

“As[Leary] explores what our language has looked like, and the ugliness now embedded in it, [he] invites us to imagine what our language could emphasize,what values it might reflect. . . . His book reminds us of the alternatives that persist behind these keywords: our managers may call us as ‘human capital,’but we are also workers. We are also people.”—The Outline

Finding Peace in the Holy Land
Lauren Booth | Kube Publishing | 9781847741202 | December 2018

“An absolutely fascinating read from beginning to end. . . . [A]n extraordinary story and a welcome contribution to our current national dialogue regarding Muslim beliefs and compatibility with western cultural values.”—Midwest Book Review

Permanent Exhibit
Matthew Vollmer | BOA Editions | 9781942683681 | September 2018

“While this brand of meditation might seem disastrously unfocused to the yogis among us, the disaster for readers is a delicious one—Vollmer leaps from thought to thought in an associative mode which is at once intimate and goofy, juxtaposing the warm and familiar against the inconceivably catastrophic. The result is a poignant, rapturous collection that speaks to a new generation of internet addicts—a group for whom attention is wandering and complex, as frustrating as it is beautiful.”—Los Angeles Review of Books

One Dirty Tree
Noah Van Sciver | Uncivilized Books | 9781941250273 | October 2018

“Van Sciver’s art continues to be hugely appealing, and some of the imagery here is among his best.”—The Comics Journal

We Are the Clash: Reagan, Thatcher, and the Last Stand of a Band that Mattered
Mark Anderson and Ralph Heibutzki | Akashic Books | 9781617752933 | July 2018

“One of the most rewarding music books you’ll come across this year . . . Great music books catalyze critical reconsiderations; We Are the Clash does one better, inviting readers to consider what matters to them: the creative commodities that artists produce? Or the ideals, however complexly and clumsily human they may be, that often compel artists to create in the first place.”Johns Hopkins Magazine

The Anarchist Who Shared My Name
Pablo Martín Sánchez, translated by Jeff Diteman | Deep Vellum Publishing | 9781941920718 | December 2018

“Afascinating immersion into historical documentation and imagined history.”—Words Without Borders

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