Along with the requisite V-Day romances, there are books on the relationship between music and queer culture and a critical analysis of Abbas Kiarostami’s oeuvre.
Images from left: The Secret Public: How Music Moved Queer Culture From The Margins To The Mainstream by Jon Savage ; Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito ; Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza
Valentine’s Day might be just around the corner, but we’re keeping our book recommendations a little more general this month. There are romance novels in our picks , but we’ve also got some exciting new books of cultural criticism in the mix, too. In addition to these selections, you’ll find a few more February books in our: “It’s unfortunate that people can change something that was just pure, innocent fun into drama.
, scholar Hamid Dabashi critically examines Kiarostami’s body of work as a whole, proposing a new way of understanding Kiarostami’s films—and film philosophy in general., Nancy Johnson tells the intersecting stories of Freda, a Black woman attending Fisk University in 1959, and her daughter, Tulip, a rising public relations star in 1992 Chicago.
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