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Year Zero to Economic Miracle
A close look at the work and influence of German architects Hans Schwippert and Sep Ruf.West German architecture underwent a phase of intense productivity from 1949 to 1964. In the…
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You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis
Poems in a range of forms that consider the queer body, chronic illness, and love amid rural plains landscapes. Set against a rural plains landscape of gas stations, wind,…
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You Had a Job for Life
A local story with profound national implications, now available as a paperback with a new preface by the author. Absentee owners. Single-minded concern for the bottom line. Friction between…
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Young Light
Paints a delicate portrait of a twelve-year-old boy named Julian growing up in a mining community in 1960s Germany.First Light covers only a few summer weeks, following young Julian’s gradual social…
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Yours, Purple Gallinule
Lyrical satire that imagines mental illnesses as various bird species. Ewa Chrusciel’s fourth book in English, Yours, Purple Gallinule, playfully explores health and illness as they are culturally constructed….
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Youssouf Bey
Yusuf Franko Kusa Bey (1856–1933), a high-ranking bureaucrat in fin-de-siècle Ottoman imperial administration, was also a talented caricaturist. Because of his duties in the Ottoman Foreign Ministry, and spending most…
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Zionism
Emotion lies at the heart of all national movements, and Zionism is no exception. For those who identify as Zionist, the word connotes liberation and redemption, uniqueness and vulnerability. Yet…
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