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We are invited to travel through Manhattan's playgrounds, from polyglot Queens to many-faceted Brooklyn, and from the resilient Bronx to the mystical kung fu hip-hop mecca of Staten Island. The contributors to this exquisitely designed and gorgeously illustrated volume celebrate New York City's unique vitality, its incubation of the avant-garde, and its literary history, but they also critique its racial and economic inequality, environmental impact, and erasure of its past.   Nonstop Metropolis allows us to excavate New York's buried layers, to scrutinize its political heft, and to discover the unexpected in one of the most iconic cities in the world. It is both a challenge and homage to how New Yorkers think of their city, and how the world sees this capital of capitalism, culture, immigration, and more. Contributors: Sheerly Avni, Gaiutra Bahadur, Marshall Berman, Joe Boyd, Will Butler, Garnette Cadogan, Thomas J. Campanella, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Teju Cole, Joel Dinerstein, Paul La Farge, Francisco Goldman, Margo Jefferson, Lucy R. Lippard, Barry Lopez, Valeria Luiselli, Suketu Mehta, Emily Raboteau, Molly Roy, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Luc Sante, Heather Smith, Jonathan Tarleton, Astra Taylor, Alexandra T. 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From Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Snedeker, and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro.      In the past decade, Rebecca Solnit—aided by local writers, artists, historians, urbanists, ethnographers, and cartographers—has compiled three stunning atlases that have radically changed the way we think about place. Each atlas provides a vivid, complex look at the multi-faceted nature of a city as experienced by its different inhabitants, replete with the celebrations and contradictions that make up urban life.      This three-volume paperback set contains: The original, gorgeously designed atlases—Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas; Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas; and Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas Three new and updated, full-color, fold-out posters for each city, including the popular “City of Women” mapA new and thoughtful essay by Rebecca Solnit reflecting on the project ten years after the publication of the first atlas   A stunning collection, this boxed set is a perfect treasury of imagination and insight, a rich people’s history of these infinite cities.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311784014197,"sku":"9780520314290","price":63.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780520314290_2c61cf2e-12c9-4a23-bd0e-f82d5f1cc419.jpg?v=1786013458"},{"product_id":"daylight-come","title":"Daylight Come","description":"\u003cb\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDaylight Come \u003c\/i\u003etakes us to places no biography in recent memory has . . . This book fills the heart and mind, and is essential reading for our times.” —Hilton Als\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA vibrant, revealing portrait of the \"King of Calypso,\" whose extraordinary performing career and activism helped remake America through the civil rights era and beyond\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEven three years after his death, Harry Belafonte is everywhere. You can’t go to a wedding, or to a sports arena, without hearing “Day-O,” “Jump in the Line,” or “Jamaica Farewell.” The Harlem-born son of Caribbean immigrants, Belafonte turned the folk music of the islands into American pop—and shaped the fantasy of Caribbean life that endures as an ideal and as a multibillion-dollar tourist industry. Belafonte released the first million-selling LP in history. He was America’s first Black movie star, the first Black person to produce a prime-time special on network TV, and the first to win an Emmy Award. He was once the highest-paid Black performer of all time, beloved by Black and white fans alike, even under segregation. His artistic career helped create the pop culture of the twentieth century—and his political activism reshaped the course of American history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this sparkling new biography, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro brings Belafonte’s personality and music vibrantly to life, following him from rags to riches and from Harlem to Jamaica to the March on Washington. Jelly-Schapiro takes us inside Belafonte’s lifelong brotherhood with Sidney Poitier, his friendship with Fidel Castro, his collaboration with Nelson Mandela, and the sometimes shocking therapeutic relationships his difficult upbringing necessitated. At the heart of the story is Belafonte’s bond with Martin Luther King Jr., whose cause Belafonte would champion for the rest of his life. That commitment to the greater good would sustain him and benefit untold numbers—and would come at a cost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe indelible story of an American icon—and a provocative study of authenticity, fame, and conviction—\u003ci\u003eDaylight Come \u003c\/i\u003eis, like Harry Belafonte himself, brimming with style and consequence.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481397567861,"sku":"9780593652701","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780593652701.jpg?v=1786089655"},{"product_id":"island-people","title":"Island People","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this fascinating travelogue, the product of almost a decade of travel and intense study, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro strips away the fantasy and myth to expose the real islands, and the real people, that make up the Caribbean.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57487767568757,"sku":"9781782115625","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781782115625.jpg?v=1786354993"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-joshua-jelly-schapiro.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}