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Will Ashon
An original and profound portrait of contemporary Britain told through the testimonies of its inhabitants.
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Will Ashon spent a day hitching around the motorways of England, chatting to whoever picked him up about their lives, dreams, aspirations, fears and favourite foods. The resulting transcripts, presented…
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A book about a forest, which is like a forest. A story of tangled pathways and surprising encounters; magic and madness, litter and loss. A book about getting lost, and…
Each of these chambers contains wonders of history, destiny, and mythology. Chamber Music is hip hop as race and class politics, as music and as poetry on the move. Through…
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A book about one of the most important albums of all time, which reinvents music writing in the awesome scope of its exploration.
Will Ashon orchestrates a series of unique encounters with David Hockney’s captivating photo-collage My Mother, Bolton Abbey. Taking transcripts from interviews about the artwork conducted with ten women, Ashon makes…
Amariah Ashon
Ever wondered what life is really about or why you were even born? Well …
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Ashon Nyanuttara
When researching and presenting their studies on Burma, most scholars of Southeast Asian studies have traditionally overlooked a critical chapter in Burmese history. The majority of texts pertaining to Burma…
Ashon Ruffins
In the aftermath of Goliath's murder spree in New Orleans, Nola Maor has committed herself to becoming a more skilled hunter in order to cope with the bloodshed in her…
In Meditation on Abolition, Ashon Crawley discusses how the spiritual community of his youth, Blackpentecostalism, gave him a way into abolition as a practice of concern, as a practice of…
James Corbin is an ambitious high school history teacher who resides in the lively, yet dangerous city of New Orleans. He suffers from severe depression and anxiety and is on…
Ashon T. Crawley
The Lonely Letters is an epistolary blackqueer critique of the normative world in which Ashon T. Crawley meditates on the interrelation of blackqueer life, sounds of the black church, theology…
Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility investigates the relationship of aesthetic productions to modes of collective, social intellectual practice. Engaging black studies, queer theory, sound studies, literary theory, theological studies…
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Sales PointsA much anticipated first monograph by acclaimed filmmaker and photographer Shikeith
A visceral and haunting exploration of Black male vulnerability, joy, and spirituality
For fans of contemporary portrait photography…
Ashon T Crawley
In The Lonely Letters, A tells Moth: Writing about and thinking with joy is what sustains me, daily. It nourishes me. I do not write about joy primarily because I…
Ashon Crawley,Roberto Sirvent
Ashon Crawley won the 2021 nonfiction Lammy Award for The Lonely Letters Book features interventions and artwork from incarcerated writers and artists Speaks to those interested in connecting spiritual practices…
