This is a book-length poem – a collage of water-stories, taken mostly from the Odyssey – about a minor character, abandoned on a stony island. It is not a translation, though, but a close inspection of the sea that surrounds him. There are several voices in the poem but no proper names, although its presiding spirit is Proteus, the shape-shifting sea-god. We recognise other myt...(展开全部)

Alec Soth’s reputation as one of the leading lights of contemporary photographic practice is largely predicated on the books he has published. This unusual catalogue accompanies a touring exhibition which uses the four major bodies of work which Soth has published as books since 2004 as the structural basis for both a mid-career retrospective and an investigation of Soth’s pres...(展开全部)

Alec Soth’s reputation as one of the leading lights of contemporary photographic practice is largely predicated on the books he has published. This unusual catalogue accompanies a touring exhibition which uses the four major bodies of work which Soth has published as books since 2004 as the structural basis for both a mid-career retrospective and an investigation of Soth’s pres...(展开全部)

渋谷・青山・麻布・銀座・新宿・湾岸…街から人がいなくなり、残されたのは建物だけ。人間が作ってきたものは何だったのか。自然との共存を拒否し、作っては壊し、壊しては作り、創造と破壊を繰り返してきた歴史がここに。

人形メンテナンスの仕事をするモドルは同僚ススムの丁寧な仕事ぶりに憧れていた。 二人きりの工房でススムがつぶやいたひと言は…。他描き下ろし作をプラスした業界注目ＳＨＯＯＷＡ初のＢＬカラフルラブ傑作集。

It’s autumn in Tokyo, and twelve-year-old Akira and his younger siblings, Kyoko, Shige and little Yuki, have just moved into a new apartment with their mother. Akira hopes it’s a new start for all of them, even though the little ones are not allowed to leave the apartment or make any noise, since the landlord doesn’t permit young children in the building. But their mother soon ...(展开全部)

It’s autumn in Tokyo, and 12-year-old Akira and his younger siblings Kyoko, Shige, and little Yuki have just moved into a new apartment with their mother. Akira hopes it’s a new start for all of them. But their mother soon begins to spend more and more time away from the apartment, and then one morning Akira finds an envelope of money and a note. She has gone away with her new ...(展开全部)

人形メンテナンスの仕事をするモドルは同僚ススムの丁寧な仕事ぶりに憧れていた。 二人きりの工房でススムがつぶやいたひと言は…。他描き下ろし作をプラスした業界注目ＳＨＯＯＷＡ初のＢＬカラフルラブ傑作集。

This book, Mark Z. Danielewski's experimental first novel, has been shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, which aims to recogise and reward new writing across fiction and non-fiction. A special report featuring reviews, extracts and online resources for all the titles, plus talkboards and an online poll can be found [online].