Series: Edition Noema

Joey Torino is a man who has tired of the busy, and dangerous, life he has led, and has simply decided to opt out. He is done with all that—the pressures of doing something that someone else wants him to do, the risks of doing things he questions, resents, or even disagrees with. And he has managed to escape that...

The whole Communist world is in the middle of a democratic revolution. Hall Gardner's novel depicts the protests taking place prior to the June 1989 Tiananmen Square repression—a subject still taboo in China. Hired to teach English, Mylex H. Galvin records his experience in his "Anti-Marco Polo" journal after he meets expats from around the world, while trying to come...

In Noche Triste, Robert Radin explores his struggles with anorexia in the 1980s. He also examines the history of self-starvation—its roots in rituals of religious purification, its development into an entertainment craze, its use as a tool of resistance—and, in the process, forces us to reconsider what it means to have anorexia. As his starving becomes an increasingly political act...