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A murderer who eluded him in Munich draws an aging Sherlock Holmes into a monstrous mystery in small-town Minnesota in 1920

Rare interviews, live reviews, little known stories, and close encounters: Prince in a time of crazy brilliant music and life

How and why, in a time of homophobia and closeted homosexuality, did two openly gay writers become mass-market celebrities?

Reckoning the unsettled relationship between aesthetics and politics

A fascinating look at the role of animals in human love through the ages

A frank and funny behind-the-scenes look at teaching from a hard-working and highly entertaining Teacher of the Year

Making sense of public identities, online and offline

Refocusing our lens on literature and history to lives beyond the human

A brilliant work of speculative fiction, blending science and metaphysics, by a Japanese master of the 1970s New Wave

The Beat Generation's best-known poet, in previously uncollected interviews, on reading and writing, poetry and politics

A rare, in-depth critique of federal land claims policy in Canada

A bold new approach to heritage conservation that embraces change and accommodates decay

The first architectural history of post-1967 Jerusalem, revealing the ways architectural modernism and Zionism have intertwined to imagine and reshape the city

How can cinema make us live time?

A playful and provocative call to stop playing videogames and begin making metagames

Rethinking the philosophical and anthropological basis of our ontology

The stock market is the background of how we begin to deal with the complex imbrication of humans, machines, and noise

Inspired by one of Nelson Mandela's recurring nightmares, Mandela's Dark Years offers a political reading of dream-life

Henry Willson was one of the quintessential power brokers in Hollywood during the late 1940s and 1950s when he launched the careers of Rock Hudson, Lana Turner, Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, and many others. He was also a true casting couch agent, brokering sex for opportunity on the silver screen. While this practice was rampant across Hollywood, for gay actors and film professionals the casting couch was a dangerous cliff: a public revelation could and would ruin a career. The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson is an incredible biography as well as a harrowing look into Hollywood at a time of great sexual oppression, roaming vice squads searching for gay and/or communist activity, and the impossibilities for gay actors of the era.

Anime and manga have longproposed alternative worlds-some created after catastrophe. Mechademia 10revolves around Japan's 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor crisesand considers a propensity for "world renewal."

The evolution and meaning of our love affair with Apple and its devices

Leading critic Ian Bogost posits that gamecritique is both serious cultural currency and selfparody. Noting that the termgames criticism once struck him as preposterous, Bogost observes that the idea,taken too seriously, risks balkanizing games writing from the rest of culture.

Animal tracks always tell a story. You just have to recognize the signs. As you follow the marks an animal left behind, you get to know it: where it goes, what it likes to eat, when it runs, and why. There are secrets to be learned in those signs in the snow, mysteries to be explored in the mud along the river’s edge.Tracks in the Wild introduces young naturalists to the tracks of bears, wolves, moose, otters, and other wild animals—thirteen in all. Betsy Bowen’s signature woodcut prints accompany poetic passages about each animal, along with life-size representations of their footprints. As it reveals some of the wonders of the natural world, it will also inspire awe and respect for all the wild, elusive creatures that inhabit Minnesota’s northwoods.Winner of a 1994 Minnesota Book Award, Tracks in the Wild is perfect reading for a family to share before and after a trek through their own woods.

Originally published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

Originally published by Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2007.

Since the early 1900s, blues and the guitar havetraveled side by side. From the first reported sightings of blues musicians tothe onset of the Great Depression, this is the most comprehensive and completeaccount ever written of the early stars of blues guitar-an essential chapter inthe history of American music.

Elusive Jannah is a remarkable portrait of thevery different experiences of Somali migrants in the UAE, South Africa, and theUnited States. Cawo M. Abdi clearly reveals the importance of immigrationpolicies in the migrant experience.

All Thoughts AreEqual is both an introductionto the work of French philosopher Francois Laruelle and an exercise in nonhumanthinking. John O Maoilearca examines how philosophy might appear when viewedwith non-philosophical and nonhuman eyes.

What does it mean to be awriter today? Is writing code for an app equivalent to writing a novel? Shouldwe change how we teach writing? Computing as Writing ponders both theimplications and contradictions of the common metaphor that equates computingand writing, from "notebook" computers to "writing" code.