ASAP/Journal Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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ASAP/Journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that explores new developments in post-1960s visual, media, literary, and performance arts.

Parallel Public: Experimental Art in Late East Germany
Sara Blaylock
Kimber Chewning reviews Sara Blaylock's "Parallel Public: Experimental Art in Late East Germany": "Blaylock addresses artist-created media and practices that formed communities state socialism failed to facilitate." Read more now on ASAP/J. https://t.co/bcNXFC5IcS
Hardcover, 2022
$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction Volume 50
David Farrier
"'I wanted to make climate change fun,' Grimes explained, as her then-partner sent rockets into space. '…It’s going to be super tight.'" Read @mollymacv review of David Farrier’s, "Anthropocene Poetics" now on ASAP/J. https://t.co/jAZB4091Bx
Paperback, 2019
$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature & Art
Marisel C. Moreno
.@LukeUrbain on Marisel C. Moreno’s monograph 'Crossing Waters' (2022): "Moreno, borders are often spaces of exception, not all of which coincide with a land-based boundary." Read the whole review now on ASAP/J. https://t.co/cWzJZzhLgk
Paperback, 2022
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics
Cajetan Iheka
In the new "Provocations", Comfort Chioma Azubuko-Udah, Jeanne-Marie Jackson, and Rebecca S. Oh explore Cajetan Iheka’s "African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics". Read now on ASAP/J! https://t.co/5W7dFu0QwT
Hardcover, 2021
$107.95$82.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Breathing Aesthetics
Jean-Thomas Tremblay
In the latest "Uncanny Juxtapositions", Laurel V. McLaughlin reviews Jemison's 'A Rock A River A Street' and Tremblay's 'Breathing Aesthetics': "For Tremblay and Jemison, breathwork is not a given, but it is precarious labor." Read more now on ASAP/J. https://t.co/j8Ec48ezBf
Paperback, 2022
$25.95$12.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Crisis Style: The Aesthetics of Repair
Michael Dango
In the latest "Books in Conversation", our own @michaeldango and Patricia Stuelke speak about their recent monographs "Crisis Style: The Aesthetics of Repair" (Stanford UP, 2021) and "The Ruse of Repair" (Duke UP, 2021). Read more now on ASAP/J. https://t.co/mCO0PI9emH
Paperback, 2021
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Adapting Gender: Mexican Feminisms from Literature to Film
Ilana Dann Luna
Anthony Gottlich reviews Dann Luna's "Adapting Gender": “Dann Luna … proposes a new rubric for analyzing film adaption as a ‘feminist strategy’… [to] deconstruct the relationship between storytelling and national mythmaking.” Read more now on ASAP/J. https://t.co/3orXGSu8g1
Paperback, 2019
$36.95$18.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age
Jessica Pressman
"I think we are experiencing a moment of rethinking and appreciating books anew. That is what 'Bookishness' is really trying to do", says @jesspres in conversation with Tina Lumbis. Read the third part of 'Summer Books in Conversation' now on ASAP/J. https://t.co/HOzSPZ0ET4
Paperback, 2020
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Novels of Displacement: Fiction in the Age of Global Capital
Marco Codebò
Václav Paris reviewed @thegreatkellino's EXTRATERRITORIAL along with Marco Codebò’s NOVELS OF DISPLACEMENT. 3/5 https://t.co/vopuW5z2AH
Hardcover, 2020
$79.95$54.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
In "Losing Edges", @SarahMDowling1 explores "reclining figures in two artworks", the soft edge between Rebecca Belmore’s photograph "Fringe" (2007) and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s novel "Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies" (2020). https://t.co/oP8Hz1jIpq
Paperback, 2022
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book