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The Well-Played Game

A Player's Philosophy

by Bernard De Koven

ISBN: 9780262553988

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 2, 2025

The return of a classic book about games and play that illuminates the relationship between the well-played game and the well-lived life.

Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007

by J. G. Ballard

Edited by Mark Blacklock

Foreword by Tom McCarthy

ISBN: 9780262553940

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 7, 2025

J. G. Ballard's collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation.

Fierce Dancing

Adventures in the Underground

by C. J. Stone

ISBN: 9781917674089

Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

Pub Date: October 7, 2025

A vividly personal journey tracing the legacy of 1960s counterculture into the free parties, road protests, and traveler movements of 1990s Britain.

The Saucerian

UFOs, Men in Black, and the Unbelievable Life of Gray Barker

by Gabriel Mckee

ISBN: 9780262049542

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 22, 2025

The strange, but true biography of the colorful founder of Saucerian Books, a central purveyor and promoter of flying saucer and conspiracist knowledge in the mid-twentieth century.

Playing at the World, 2E

Three Pillars of Role-Playing Games

by Jon Peterson

ISBN: 9780262552318

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 8, 2025

The second volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World, which charts the vast and complex history of role-playing games.