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Product: McSweeney's Issue 57 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Twenty-first Anniversary Edition (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, 57)
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Product: Religious Entrepreneurism in China’s Urban House Churches: The Rise and Fall of Early Rain Reformed Presbyterian Church (Routledge Studies in Religion)
Description: This book offers a unique historical documentation of the development of the ambitious religious entrepreneurism by leaders of the Early Rain church (and later Western China Presbytery leadership), in an effort to gain social influence in China through local institution-building and global public image management. It unravels the social processes of how this Christian community with a public image of defending religious freedom in China was undermined by an internal loss of moral authority.

Based on publicly available texts from Chinese social media that aren’t readily available in the West as well as in-depth interviews, it is framed by existing scholarship in social theories of the public sphere, charismatic domination in social transition, and the role of power in organizational behaviour. These churches’ stories show how Christianity, which has long been politically marginalized in communist China, has not only adapted and challenged the socio-political status quo, but how it was also ironically shaped by the political culture.

This is an insightful and critical ethnographic study of one of modern China’s most famous house churches. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of Religion in China as well as those working in Religious Studies, Asian studies, Chinese studies, and Mission Studies more generally.
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Product: A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Brand: Audible
Description: National Book Award Finalist

“A masterpiece” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), a “devastating” (The New York Times) meditation on Black performance in America from the MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow and bestselling author of Go Ahead in the Rain

Winner of the Gordon Burn Prize Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal Longlisted for The Pen/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award One of the Ten Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Publishers Weekly One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, Time, Esquire, BuzzFeed, NPR, Book Riot, Book Page, the Rumpus, Library Journal

“Gorgeous essays that reveal the resilience, heartbreak, and joy within Black performance.” (Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half)

At the March on Washington in 1963, Josephine Baker was 57 years old, well beyond her most prolific days. But in her speech she was in a mood to consider her life, her legacy, her departure from the country she was now triumphantly returning to. “I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too,” she told the crowd. Inspired by these few words, Hanif Abdurraqib has written a profound and lasting reflection on how Black performance is inextricably woven into the fabric of American culture. Each moment in every performance he examines - whether it’s the twenty-seven seconds in “Gimme Shelter” in which Merry Clayton wails the words “rape, murder,” a schoolyard fistfight, a dance marathon, or the instant in a game of spades right after the cards are dealt - has layers of resonance in Black and white cultures, the politics of American empire, and Abdurraqib’s own personal history of love, grief, and performance.

Abdurraqib writes prose brimming with jubilation and pain, infused with the lyricism and rhythm of the musicians he loves. With care and generosity, he explains the poignancy of performances big and small, each one feeling intensely familiar and vital, both timeless and desperately urgent. Filled with sharp insight, humor, and heart, A Little Devil in America exalts the Black performance that unfolds in specific moments in time and space - from midcentury Paris to the moon, and back down again to a cramped living room in Columbus, Ohio.
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Product: GO AHEAD IN THE RAIN: Notas para a tribe called Quest (ALPHA DECAY) (Spanish Edition)
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Product: The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America
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Product: A Fortune for Your Disaster
Brand: Tin House Books
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Product: The Crown Ain't Worth Much (Button Poetry)
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Product: Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami
Description: How did a loner destined for a niche domestic audience become one of the most famous writers alive? A "fascinating" look at the "business of bringing a best-selling novelist to a global audience" (The Atlantic)―and a “rigorous” exploration of the role of translators and editors in the creation of literary culture (The Paris Review).
Thirty years ago, when Haruki Murakami’s works were first being translated, they were part of a series of pocket-size English-learning guides released only in Japan. Today his books can be read in fifty languages and have won prizes and sold millions of copies globally. How did a loner destined for a niche domestic audience become one of the most famous writers alive? This book tells one key part of the story. Its cast includes an expat trained in art history who never intended to become a translator; a Chinese American ex-academic who never planned to work as an editor; and other publishing professionals in New York, London, and Tokyo who together introduced a pop-inflected, unexpected Japanese voice to the wider literary world.
David Karashima synthesizes research, correspondence, and interviews with dozens of individuals—including Murakami himself—to examine how countless behind-the-scenes choices over the course of many years worked to build an internationally celebrated author’s persona and oeuvre. His careful look inside the making of the “Murakami Industry" uncovers larger questions: What role do translators and editors play in framing their writers’ texts? What does it mean to translate and edit “for a market”? How does Japanese culture get packaged and exported for the West?
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Product: Prince: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series)
Brand: Melville House
Color: Multicolor
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Product: Electric Arches
Brand: Haymarket Books
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Product: Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
Brand: Graywolf Press
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Product: Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)
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Product: The Rainforest Race (2) (Go, Diego, Go!)
Brand: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
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Product: The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)
Brand: Grove Press
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Product: A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Brand: Vintage
Color: Orange
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Product: They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Brand: Two Dollar Radio
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