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Uncanny Valley
Counterpoint 2011; US$ 26.00Shuttling between cultural comedies and political tragedies, Lawrence Weschler?s articles have throughout his long career intrigued readers with his unique insight into everything he examines, from the ordinary to the extraordinary. Uncanny Valley continues the page-turning conversation as Weschler collects the best of his narrative nonfiction... more...
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
University of California Press 2009; US$ 50.00When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist "who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it." Now expanded to include six additional chapters and twenty-four pages of color plates, Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees chronicles three decades of conversation... more...
A MIRACLE, A UNIVERSE
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 20.00In recent years as countries around the globe have begun to move from dictatorial to more democratic systems of governance, no more traumatic (or dramatic) ethical problem has arisen than what to do with the previous regime?s torturers. In most cases, the security and military apparatuses, responsible for the overwhelming majority of human-rights abuses,... more...
Vermeer in Bosnia
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 15.00From the master chronicler of the marvelous and the confounding?author of Mr. Wilson?s Cabinet of Wonder ?here is a much-anticipated new collection of more than twenty pieces from the past two decades, the majority of which have never before been gathered together in book form. Lawrence Weschler is not simply a superb reporter, essayist, and cultural... more...
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 14.95Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" that were the first museums and compels readers to examine the imaginative... more...
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