Yes, it is intersession time again, and sadly Graduate Services will not be open our usual hours. From August 15th to the 24th our hours will be abbreviated like a text message conversation. We will only be open from 10am-5pm Monday through Friday. But chipper up, Graduate Services will be like a good, long, old fashioned telephone conversation before you know it, as normal hours return August 25th.

What a month July was! Look at all these books that arrived! Can you believe it! I think July 2011 will be remembered more for how many books arrived here in Graduate Services than this past July 4th you can't remember or forget (the conundrum of a very good time). Though I can't remember what the record was to verify this fact, the amount of books coming in to Graduate Services must be a new monthly record! Agamben, Barthes, Blanchot, Baudrillard, Auden, Badiou, Berry, Bishop, Bly, Kristeva, Kennedy, Mamet, Latour, Rorty, Rich, Pound, Oates. And then there are books by UC Berkeley faculty memebers Abel, Alter, Chandra, Hass, Fudge, Reed, Kaes, Sas, Vernon, Nylan, Largier, as well as a book of essays in honor of Jan de Vries. I'm dropping names like they are rocks and I'm looking down a great big well. And you know what. Maybe I am. A great big well of knowledge right here on the Graduate Services new book shelves. And now my time is up and I didn't even get to mention that the first books from Alasdair Gray, the newest member of the Modern Authors Collection, arrived in July too. Drop his name and see what happens.

Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow by Elizabeth Abel

Nudities by Giorgio Agamben

Democracy In What State? edited by Giorgio Agamben

The Art of Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter

Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible by Robert Alter

The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue by W.H. Auden

The Communist Hypothesis by Alain Badiou

Tom Stoppard: A Bibliographical History by William Baker and Gerald N. Wachs

Incidents by Roland Barthes

Mourning Diary: October 26.1977-September 15, 1979 by Roland Barthes

The Agony of Power by Jean Baudrillard

The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford by Wendell Berry

Elizabeth Bishop And The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence edited by Joelle Biele

Poems by Elizabeth Bishop

Prose by Elizabeth Bishop

Political Writings, 1953-1993 by Maurice Blanchot

Talking into the Ear of a Donkey by Robert Bly

Oxford Dictionary of Critical Theory by Ian Buchanan

Heisenberg in the Atomic Age: Science and the Public Sphere by Cathryn Carson

Love and Longing in Bombay: Stories by Vikram Chandra

Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad: Suspense, A Novel edited by Gene M. Moore

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad: Youth, Heart of Darkness, and The End of the Tether edited by Owen Knowles

The Birth of Modern Europe: Culture and Economy, 1400-1800: Essays in Honor of Jan de Vries edited by Laura Cruz and Joel Mokyr

Spirit of Resistance: Dutch Clandestine Literature During the Nazi Occupation by Jeroen Dewulf

Theodore Dreiser: Political Writings edited by Jude Davies

The Journals and Diaries of E.M. Forster v.1-3 edited by Philip Gardner

Renaissance Beasts: Of Animals, Humans, and Other Wonderful Creatures edited by Erica Fudge

Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray

A Life in Pictures by Alasdair Gray

Unlikely Stories Mostly by Alasdair Gray

On Teaching Poetry by Robert Hass

The Concept of Time: The First Draft of Being and Time by Martin Heidegger

Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life In North China by David Johnson

Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War by Anton Kaes

Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty by Paul W. Kahn

You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free by James Kelman

Indelible Acts by A.L. Kennedy

Looking For the Possible Dance by A.L. Kennedy

Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains by A.L. Kennedy

Original Bliss by A.L. Kennedy

Hatred and Forgiveness by Julia Kristeva

In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal by Niklaus Largier

Letters to Monica by Philip Larkin edited by Anthony Thwaite

On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods by Bruno Latour

The Gadamer Dictionary by Chris Lawn and Niall Keane

Race by David Mamet

Lives of Confucius: Civilization's Greatest Sage Through the Ages by Michael Nylan and Thomas Wilson

Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context by Tejaswini Niranjana

A Widow's Story by Joyce Carol Oates

On What Matters v.1-2 by Derek Parfit (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures)

New Selected Poems and Translations by Ezra Pound edited by Richard Sieburth

Ezra Pound to His Parents: Letters 1895-1929 edited by Mary De Rachewiltz, A. David Moody, and Joanna Moody

Mixing It Up: Taking On the Media Bullies and Other Reflections by Ishmael Reed

Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010 by Adrienne Rich

The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age by Harriet Ritvo

The Rorty Reader by Richard Rorty edited by Christopher J. Voparil and Richard J. Bernstein

Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return by Miryam Sas

Hunger: A Modern History by James Vernon

Death Likes It Hot by Gore Vidal writing as Edgar Box

Native Land: Stop Eject by Paul Virilio, Raymond Depardon, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan, and Ben Rubin

The Complete Short Story Omnibus by H.G. Wells

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf: Between the Acts edited by Mark Hussey

The UC Berkeley Library is trying to get a better understanding of how our patrons use our website (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/) and we need your help! We are looking for any current UC Berkeley students or faculty who would like to sit down with a Library staff member and show us how you use our site. Whether you use our site everyday, intermittently, or have never used it we're interested in speaking with you. In exchange for about an hour of your time we'll give you a $10 gift certificate to the FSM Cafe in Moffitt Library. We will record the session, but all recordings and data collected will only be used internally for website redesign purposes. If you are interested in helping us please email Matthew Prutsman at mprutsma@library.berkeley.edu by Thursday, July 21.

It's summertime, and although not many new books came in this June, that doesn't mean the summertime blues are hanging around here. No sir, that is not the case here in Graduate Services because the ten books we did get this June are ten great summertime reads. For example, the Fourth of July is coming up and you'll probably be saying the Pledge of Allegiance quite a bit, so why not come here a few days before and read Giorgio Agamben's latest book, The Sacraement of Language, which is an archaeology of the oath. Don't pledge blindly this Fourth of July holiday, pledge knowingly. Now, anyone one who knows anything knows nothing says summer fun like a manifesto, which is why kicking back in Graduate Services next to a window reading Alain Badiou's Second Manifesto for Philosophy is the perfect way to spend a summer afternoon. The heat from the warm sun and the energy from so much proclaming just warms up those butterflys in your stomach. But don't worry, it doesn't get hot enough for them to curdle. And finally, if you are longing for those long discourses with faculty members you're used to engaging in from August to May, well, we have a few books here from Lyn Hejinian and Ishmal Reed to get you engaged. A book of poetry, a book of essays about poetry, and a novel from these two should make you feel like the spring semester never ended and the summer one never began. Enjoy.

The Sacrament of Language: An Archaeology of the Oath (Homo Sacer II, 3) by Giorgio Agamben

Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe by Caroline Walker Bynum

Second Manifesto For Philosophy by Alain Badiou

Sunflower by Jack Collom and Lyn Hejinian

The Etiquette of Freedom: Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and The Practice of the Wild edited by Paul Ebenkamp

The Cold of Poetry by Lyn Hejinian

Juice! by Ishmael Reed

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Dictionary of Visual DIscourse: A Dialectical Lexicon of Terms By Barry Sandywell

Historical Dictionary of Heidegger's Philosophy 2nd Edition edited by Frank Schalow and Alfred Denker

It's the month of May. The month that celebrates that wonderful auxiliary verb we all love. It expresses possibility as well as the ability and capacity to do something. And with that in mind, may  I introduce you to A.L. Kennedy. She is a writer, a comedian, and now she is a part of the Modern Authors Collection in Graduate Services. Three of her books are here now (So I Am Glad, Everything You Need, On Bullfighting) with more on the way in the coming months. After learning about being glad everything you need is bullfighting, may I suggest some other new titles for you to look into? The new one from UC Berkeley Emeritus professor Maxine Hong Kingston is ready to be read. A collection of Antonio Negri's plays is here for your mind to perform. And if you really want to do some mental aerobics, there's Hegel and Maurice Merleau-Ponty here to be your trainers. Add a little Ford Maddox Ford, Hanif Kureishi, Peter Matthiessen, and W.B. Yeats to the equation, and it looks like May may have the capicty to equal good days spent reading new books in Graduate Services. So gear up for getting down here to Graduate Services. You may like what you find.

Parade's End Volume One: Some Do Not...by Ford Madox Ford edited by Max Saunders

Encyclopedia of the Phiosophical Sciences in Basic Outline, Part I: Science of Logic by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Everything You Need by A.L. Kennedy

On Bullfighting by A.L. Kennedy

So I Am Glad by A.L. Kennedy

I Love A Broad Margin To My Life by Maxine Hong Kingstone

Gabriel's Gift by Hanif Kureishi

Love in a Blue Time by Hanif Kureishi

...isms: Understanding Art by Stephen Little

Are We There Yet?: A Zen Journey Through Space and TIme by Peter Matthiessen and Peter Cunningham

Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can): Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution by Peter Matthiessen

Institution and Passivity: Course Notes From The College de France (1954-1955) by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Trilogy of Resistance by Antonio Negri

At the Hawk's Well and The Cat and the Moon: Manuscript Materials (The Cornell Yeats) by W.B. Yeats edited by Andrew Parkin