Richard ‘Rick’ Boothby is professor of philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. Boothby’s books include Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud (1995), Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan (2001), Sex on the Couch: What Freud Still has to Teach Us About Sex and Gender (2006) and Embracing the Void: Rethinking the Origin of the Sacred (2023). He lives in Baltimore.
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Twenty Shadows
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Twenty Shadows
Oct 2026
Twenty Shadows
Richard Boothby
Each substance of grief hath twenty shadows,
Which shows like grief itself, but is not so;
For sorrow’s eye, glazed with blinding tears,
Divides one thing entire to many objects;
Like perspectives which, rightly gazed upon,
Show nothing but confusion
—Shakespeare, Richard II
Which shows like grief itself, but is not so;
For sorrow’s eye, glazed with blinding tears,
Divides one thing entire to many objects;
Like perspectives which, rightly gazed upon,
Show nothing but confusion
—Shakespeare, Richard II
Twenty Shadows traces a father and philosopher’s spiritual transformation, following the suicide of his son by gunshot after a long addiction. Haunted by this loss and the unknown desire of his only child, Richard Boothby finds a form of expression that was hitherto impossible. He thinks and writes with an openness that verges on the mystic.
- 978-1-0684395-3-7
- 21.6 x 13.9 cm
- 300 pp.
- Paperback
- October 2026
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The Trip to the East of France
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The Trip to the East of Francetrans. Armine Kotin Mortimer
Mar 2027
The Trip to the East of France
Christine Angot
trans. Armine Kotin Mortimer
- 978-1-0684395-7-5
- 21.6 x 13.9 cm
- 120 pp.
- Paperback
- March 2027
The Collected Graces
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The Collected Graces
Jun 2027
The Collected Graces
Jackie Wang
- 978-1-0684395-6-8
- 21.6 x 13.9 cm
- 200 pp.
- Paperback
- June 2027
