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These varied essays explore the language of racial misrecognition (a.k.a.

Guillermo Gómez-Peña has spent many years developing his unique style of performance-activism; his theatricalizations of postcolonial theory.

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings.

How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes.

Freud swore by it. Heidegger swore at it. Kierkegaard swore off it. In our everyday lives we can't live without it. It's just talk. Before media, before the Internet there was talk.

A selection of non-fiction writings composed of essays and reviews written between 1968 and 1985.