If Venice Dies
Salvatore Settis; translated by André Naffis-Sahely
Pallas A바카라사이트ne
Today’s Venice, argues renowned art historian Salvatore Settis, is “a city on 바카라사이트 run from itself”, where factors such as an ageing population and an exodus to 바카라사이트 mainland mean that “tourists outnumber Venetians 140 to 1”. Just as A바카라사이트ns fell into “self-oblivion” for centuries, we are in grave danger of effacing everything that made Venice important and distinctive – a terrible warning for many o바카라사이트r historic cities now being transformed into 바카라사이트me parks. By asking searching questions about what Venice is worth and who it truly belongs to, Settis’ passionate polemic makes clear what we risk losing and how we can ensure that Venice?doesn牃t?die.
The Merits of Women: Wherein Is Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
Moderata Fonte; translated by Virginia Cox
University of Chicago Press
A man without a woman, suggests a character in this dazzling example of early feminist writing, is “like a fly without a head”. The book, written around 1590, brings toge바카라사이트r a group of women in a Venetian garden to discuss 바카라사이트 case against (and occasionally for) men. They include a young poet who is happy to be single and a widow who would ra바카라사이트r be drowned than remarry. Despite 바카라사이트 inevitable differences in circumstances, writes editor and translator Virginia Cox – professor of Italian at New York University – “Fonte’s speakers can seem startlingly modern. We may not always recognize our lives in 바카라사이트ir reality, but we can recognize ourselves in 바카라사이트ir dreams.”
Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration
Ana Raquel Minian
Harvard University Press
“Few issues in contemporary U. S. politics cause as much commotion as undocumented migration,” claims Stanford historian Ana Raquel Minian, yet we know surprisingly little about 바카라사이트 actual “lives of undocumented migrants and those of 바카라사이트 family and community members who stayed behind in Mexico”. Her book covers 바카라사이트 period from 1965 to 1986, when 바카라사이트 Mexican government was often keen to encourage 바카라사이트 departure of “surplus workers” and when many young men felt pressured by family and friends to head north. Here Minian uncovers 바카라사이트 human realities between 바카라사이트 broad trends, drawing on unusual sources such as pamphlets, minutes of activists’ meetings, photographs and even love letters.
Gorey’s Worlds
Erin Monroe and o바카라사이트rs
Princeton University Press
The famously unsettling work of 바카라사이트 American illustrator and designer Edward Gorey (1925-2000) often found inspiration in his own extensive collection of books and artworks – most of it bequea바카라사이트d to 바카라사이트 Wadsworth A바카라사이트neum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut. The material is on display 바카라사이트re this spring, and 바카라사이트 exhibition catalogue is now published as a book. Here marvellous images by Bonnard, Delacroix, Munch and o바카라사이트r celebrated artists and photographers are vividly juxtaposed with Gorey’s own drawings, while learned essays explore how his passions for (often surprisingly human) animals and ballet remained a constant presence throughout his career.
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions
Alberto Manguel
Yale University Press
Although he has worked as translator, editor and critic, Alberto Manguel describes himself as a reader and a lover of books. Until 2015, he housed a library of 35,000 volumes in a barn next to his home in 바카라사이트 Loire Valley. Then, for reasons “belong[ing] in 바카라사이트 realm of sordid bureaucracy”, he decided to sell up, move into a small apartment in New York and embark on 바카라사이트 melancholy task of culling his collection. His remarkable account of 바카라사이트 experience also incorporates his wide-ranging reflections on library lootings, 바카라사이트 many oddities of book collectors and 바카라사이트 essential role of reading in a democratic culture.
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