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The Madman's Guide to Stamp Collecting

by Robert Irwin ...

**A fascinating, one-of-a-kind journey through the obsessive world of collecting (and stamps) by maverick historian and cult writer Robert Irwin.“[A] delightful mishmash of quotations, digressions, obscure facts, arcane anecdotes and playful romps.” — Literary Review**Why do we collect? Is it to rescue objects from oblivion? Is it a kind of desire—or even a kind of madness?Robert Irwin—novelist, ... Read more

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**A fascinating, one-of-a-kind journey through the obsessive world of collecting (and stamps) by maverick historian and cult writer Robert Irwin.“[A] delightful mishmash of quotations, digressions, obscure facts, arcane anecdotes and playful romps.” — Literary Review**Why do we collect? Is it to rescue objects from oblivion? Is it a kind of desire—or even a kind of madness?Robert Irwin—novelist,
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The Arabian Nightmare

A Novel

by Robert Irwin ...

A cult classic that "combines the genres of travelogue, fable, dream narrative, novel and confessional into one beguiling whole" ( Publishers Weekly ).The hero and guiding force of this epic fantasy is an insomniac young man who, unable to sleep, guides the reader through the narrow streets of Cairo—a mysterious city full of deceit and trickery.He narrates a complex tangle of dreams and imaginings ... Read more

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A cult classic that "combines the genres of travelogue, fable, dream narrative, novel and confessional into one beguiling whole" ( Publishers Weekly ).The hero and guiding force of this epic fantasy is an insomniac young man who, unable to sleep, guides the reader through the narrow streets of Cairo—a mysterious city full of deceit and trickery.He narrates a complex tangle of dreams and imaginings
... Read more
Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh

A Novel

by Robert Irwin ...

The author of The Arabian Nightmare spins "a wryly subversive and darkly erotic fable" ( The Sunday Times).The virginal hero of the tale, Prince Orkhan, escapes from the Cage of the Imperial Harem, in which the sons of the sultan are imprisoned, and finds himself hailed by the Harem's concubines as their new Sultan. He is immediately caught up in the excesses and perversions of the Harem. But evil ... Read more

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The author of The Arabian Nightmare spins "a wryly subversive and darkly erotic fable" ( The Sunday Times).The virginal hero of the tale, Prince Orkhan, escapes from the Cage of the Imperial Harem, in which the sons of the sultan are imprisoned, and finds himself hailed by the Harem's concubines as their new Sultan. He is immediately caught up in the excesses and perversions of the Harem. But evil
... Read more
Exquisite Corpse

A Novel

by Robert Irwin ...

This "off-beat, brisk and darkly comic" historical novel about an artist's romantic obsession with his muse is "consistently clever and inventive." ( The New York Times)Set in London, Paris, and Munich in the 1940s and 1950s, Exquisite Corpse is, like Robert Irwin's cult classic, The Arabian Nightmare, a novel about the strange and ever-morphing powers of the imagination. At once a love story, a ... Read more

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This "off-beat, brisk and darkly comic" historical novel about an artist's romantic obsession with his muse is "consistently clever and inventive." ( The New York Times)Set in London, Paris, and Munich in the 1940s and 1950s, Exquisite Corpse is, like Robert Irwin's cult classic, The Arabian Nightmare, a novel about the strange and ever-morphing powers of the imagination. At once a love story, a
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The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights

Volume 1

Series Book 1 - The Arabian Nights
Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king stories of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages ... Read more

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Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king stories of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages
... Read more
The Annotated Arabian Nights

Tales from 1001 Nights

Translated by Yasmine Seale ...

by Robert Irwin ...

Series series The Annotated Books
**“[A]n electric new translation . . . Each page is adorned with illustrations and photographs from other translations and adaptations of the tales, as well as a wonderfully detailed cascade of notes that illuminate the stories and their settings. . . . The most striking feature of the Arabic tales is their shifting registers—prose, rhymed prose, poetry—and Seale captures the movement between them ... Read more

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**“[A]n electric new translation . . . Each page is adorned with illustrations and photographs from other translations and adaptations of the tales, as well as a wonderfully detailed cascade of notes that illuminate the stories and their settings. . . . The most striking feature of the Arabic tales is their shifting registers—prose, rhymed prose, poetry—and Seale captures the movement between them
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Night & Horses & The Desert

An Anthology of Classic Arabic Literature

Edited by Robert Irwin ...

This collection of Arabic literature is "a joy to read. . . . a journey through eleven centuries of a lost world, with a surprise on almost every page" ( Financial Times).Spanning the fifth to the sixteenth centuries, from Afghanistan to Spain, Night & Horses & The Desert includes translated extracts from all the major classics in an invaluable introduction to the subject of classical Arabic ... Read more

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This collection of Arabic literature is "a joy to read. . . . a journey through eleven centuries of a lost world, with a surprise on almost every page" ( Financial Times).Spanning the fifth to the sixteenth centuries, from Afghanistan to Spain, Night & Horses & The Desert includes translated extracts from all the major classics in an invaluable introduction to the subject of classical Arabic
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The Limits of Vision

A Novel

by Robert Irwin ...

An obsessive-compulsive housewife teeters on the edge of madness in this "immensely intelligent and delightful . . . dance of a book" ( The New York Times).The Limits of Vision is Robert Irwin's irrepressibly entertaining and imaginative novel about a young housewife named Marcia and the war she wages against dirt.Set over the course of a single day as Marcia goes about her quotidian activities ... Read more

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An obsessive-compulsive housewife teeters on the edge of madness in this "immensely intelligent and delightful . . . dance of a book" ( The New York Times).The Limits of Vision is Robert Irwin's irrepressibly entertaining and imaginative novel about a young housewife named Marcia and the war she wages against dirt.Set over the course of a single day as Marcia goes about her quotidian activities
... Read more
Wonders Will Never Cease

A Novel

by Robert Irwin ...

An Exhilarating, Magical Blend of History and Fantasy Set during the Original Game of Thrones.Beginning with the Palm Sunday battle of Towton, the bloodiest ever fought on English soil, Wonders Will Never Cease relates the fabulous adventures of one man and his noble family amid the chaos and political intrigue that beset England during the War of the Roses, when two great houses battled for ... Read more

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An Exhilarating, Magical Blend of History and Fantasy Set during the Original Game of Thrones.Beginning with the Palm Sunday battle of Towton, the bloodiest ever fought on English soil, Wonders Will Never Cease relates the fabulous adventures of one man and his noble family amid the chaos and political intrigue that beset England during the War of the Roses, when two great houses battled for
... Read more
The Arabian Nights

A Companion

by Robert Irwin ...

This literary companion guides the reader into the labyrinth of storytelling within The Arabian Nights.The Arabian Nights has become a synonym for the fabulous and the exotic. Every child is familiar with the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba. Yet very few people, even specialists in oriental literature, have a clear idea of when the book was written or what exactly it is.Far from ... Read more

$14.99 USD

This literary companion guides the reader into the labyrinth of storytelling within The Arabian Nights.The Arabian Nights has become a synonym for the fabulous and the exotic. Every child is familiar with the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba. Yet very few people, even specialists in oriental literature, have a clear idea of when the book was written or what exactly it is.Far from
... Read more
Memoirs of a Dervish

Sufis, Mystics and the Sixties

by Robert Irwin ...

In the summer of 1964, while a military coup was taking place and tanks were rolling through the streets of Algiers, Robert Irwin set off for Algeria in search of Sufi enlightenment. There he entered a world of marvels and ecstasy, converted to Islam and received an initiation as a faqir. He learnt the rituals of Islam in North Africa and he studied Arabic in London. He also pursued more esoteric ... Read more

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In the summer of 1964, while a military coup was taking place and tanks were rolling through the streets of Algiers, Robert Irwin set off for Algeria in search of Sufi enlightenment. There he entered a world of marvels and ecstasy, converted to Islam and received an initiation as a faqir. He learnt the rituals of Islam in North Africa and he studied Arabic in London. He also pursued more esoteric
... Read more
The Secession Talks

Exhibitions in Conversation 2011–2022

Translated by Marc Hiatt, Louise Pain, Gegensatz Translation Collective ...

by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, John Akomfrah, Diana Al-Hadid, Francis Alÿs, Edgar Arceneaux0, Lutz Bacher1, Nairy Baghramian2, Yael Bartana3, Hannes Böck4, Ulla von Brandenburg5, Gerard Byrne6, Vija Celmins7, Olga Chernysheva8, Chto Delat9, David Claerbout0, Attila Csörgő1, Alex Da Corte2, Svenja Deininger3, Liz Deschenes4, Peter Doig5, Heinrich Dunst6, Nicole Eisenman7, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster8, Anthea Hamilton9, Bakani Pick-Up0, Maria Hassabi1, Edi Hila2, Anthony Huberman3, Robert Irwin4, Tess Jaray5, Tillman Kaiser6, Bouchra Khalili7, Joseph Leo Koerner8, Moritz Küng9, Ferdinand Schmatz0, Pablo Lafuente1, Dustin Ericksen2, Hilary Lloyd3, Asier Mendizabal4, Thomas Locher5, Inés Lombardi6, Tala Madani7, Till Megerle8, Jean-Luc Moulène9, Rudolf Polanszky0, Lisl Ponger1, R. H. Quaytman2, Ed Ruscha3, Payam Sharifi4, Danh Vō5 ...

The Secession Talks is a collection of artist talks on exhibitions that took place at the Secession from 2011 to 2022. They contextualize the exhibition history of the Secession and allow for a new consideration and evaluation of the program. As a collection, these conversations between artists and well-known art critics, art historians, curators, and artist colleagues form a unique interface ... Read more

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The Secession Talks is a collection of artist talks on exhibitions that took place at the Secession from 2011 to 2022. They contextualize the exhibition history of the Secession and allow for a new consideration and evaluation of the program. As a collection, these conversations between artists and well-known art critics, art historians, curators, and artist colleagues form a unique interface
... Read more

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