Recent Books
Otium: An Anthropology of Work, Freedom, and Common Ground in the Global Economy
Gregor Dobler
In this ethnography of global labor, Gregor Dobler accompanies different groups of people in their attempts to find time autonomy and meaning in their everyday lives. He shows how moments of otium—moments when we feel free from the external constraints of work and capitalist definitions of productivity—can become productive in new ways.
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Spring in My Hometown / 아름다운 시절
Andrew David Jackson
The inaugural volume of the Cinemas of Asia series, this book offers a fresh perspective on South Korean director Lee Kwang-mo’s 1998 film Spring in My Hometown (아름다운 시절). his volume examines the industrial context in which Lee attempted to bring his film into production, the cinematic cycle from which it emerged, the unique style that captivated festival juries but divided audiences.
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Travels with Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde
Suzanne W. Churchill, Linda A. Kinnahan and Susan Rosenbaum
Artist and writer Mina Loy (1882-1966) traversed continents, participated in Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism, and depicted poetic and painterly vistas ranging from lunar landscapes to the gritty streets of the Bowery. Travels with Mina Loy offers an illustrated tour of Mina Loy’s long and varied career, contextualized with in-depth explorations of key places that shaped her life and work.
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Human* Being: On Otherkin Identity and Digital Community
Devin Proctor
Human* Being: On Otherkin Identity and Digital Community is an ethnographic exploration of the Otherkin—a technologically-mediated community of practice whose members identify as other-than-human—breaking down barriers of identity and calling into question assumptions about what it means to be a human.
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Lever Press announces membership in OIPA
OIPA recently welcomed Lever Press as an associate member of its organization
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Lever Press Publishes Its 50th Book
In April 2026, Lever Press published its 50th book!
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