Product Description: Originally published in book form in French in 1887, Joris-Karl Huysmans' A Dilemma remains a particularly nasty little tale, a mordantly satiric and cruel account of bourgeois greed and manipulation that holds up as clear a mirror to today's neoliberalist times as it did to the French fin-de-siècle...read more

Product Description: Are people nothing more than their physical capital--what their bodies can produce and provide? This philosophical treatise examines the idea of mutational bodies as it has appeared in fiction and cinema since the industrial era, theorizing that capitalism and other modern collective systems require transformations both literal and figurative for the individual to survive...read more

Product Description: Beloved, controversial, influential, the creator of such fascinating and award-winning films as My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, Elephant, and Milk, Gus Van Sant stands among the great international directors, equally at home in Hollywood and the avant-garde...read more

Product Description: In this collection of thematically related stories, celebrated Belgian author Fran?ois Emmanuel shows his indebtedness to the great poetic iconoclasts of the French language--not least Charles Baudelaire, after whose famous poem this book was named.

Product Description: In recent decades, male bisexuality has become a recurring topic in international cinema, as filmmakers and their works challenge our ideas about sexual freedom and identity. In all of these films, more than a dozen of which are covered here, bisexuality is treated both as an actual practice and a complex metaphor for a number of things, including the human need to adapt to changing environments, the questioning of rigidly traditional male roles and identities, the breakdown and regeneration of family structures, the limitations of monogamy, and the stubborn affirmation of romantic love...read more

Product Description: Poetry. LGBT Studies. "Justin Vicari is instantly recognizable as one of those scarce and certifiably gifted lunatics of The Real Thing—from the first line you know you are in the presence of someone who is capable of thinking in poetry...read more