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Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. …
Ends abruptly and infuriatingly. But otherwise it's a gripping read, the characters are textured and lovely, and it takes on the tired genre of zombie novels with some real freshness. I just want to know what happens next!!
A young Irish drama student in 1990s London makes new friends, establishes a place for …
A book about a girl getting over childhood sexual assault by sleeping with an older, wealthier man who also sexually assaults her? Fucking yawn. The only novel thing about this book is the prose, which is in some kind of stream of consciousness style. Rather than making the book better or more interesting, it makes it nigh-completely unreadable.
The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.
An audacious revision of …
It's early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side, and the alienation of Moshfegh's …
Gross, aspirational, liberatory, inspiring, and depressing all at the same time. I read this in one sitting.
Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. …
This book is mindblowing in the best way. A deeply necessary read for thinking about how gender & colonization & capital are intertwined. Also, taught me a lot about a period in history I know very little about!
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods …
March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis’ lifelong struggle for civil and human …
"Twin brothers struggle with the responsibilities of adulthood and family in the post-Katrina Mississippi Gulf …
What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet
Matsutake …
Complex, intelligent, and beautiful. This book focuses on a very particularized industry--the international trade in matsutake--but expands to think about forest ecology, the gig economy, life on the edges of capitalism, race, and geopolitics. It does so with a prose that is beautiful and poetic, and a lovely meandering structure.
Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since …
"In this stunning debut, poet José Olivarez explores the story, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that …
