Outside of a Dog

Where it's not too dark to read

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Recent Books

Katabasis (Hardcover, Finnish language, 2025, Teos)

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Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick. But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and - inconveniently - in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter Murdoch, is …

R. F. Kuang: Katabasis (Hardcover, 2025, Harper Voyager)

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Reetta Vuokko-Syrjänen: Harhakoto (Hardcover, Finnish language, 2025, Hertta Kustannus)

Harhakoto

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Reetta Vuokko-Syrjänen: Harhakoto (Hardcover, Finnish language, 2025, Hertta Kustannus)

Harhakoto

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R. F. Kuang: Katabasis (Hardcover, Finnish language, 2025, Suomalainen kirjakauppa)

Katabasis

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Lorraine Daston: Rules (Hardcover, 2022, Princeton University Press)

Rules

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"We are, all of us, everywhere, always, enmeshed in a web of rules and constraints. Rules fix the beginning and end of the working day and the school year, direct the ebb and flow of traffic on the roads, dictate who can be married to whom and how, place the …