Affinities: On Art and Fascination
By: Brian Dillon
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A meditation on the power and pleasures of the image, from paintings to photographs to migraine aur…
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1. Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
By: Annie Dillard
4.33
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores… read more
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2. Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life
By: Gillian Rose
4.16
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
A devastating confrontation with mortality leads Gillian Rose, one of England's most distinguished … read more
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3. Pretentiousness: Why It Matters
By: Dan Fox
4.25
Format: 328 pages,
Pretentiousness is for anyone who has braved being different, whether that's making a stand against… read more
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4. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
By: Cookie Mueller
4.49
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more
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5. Malina
By: Philip Boehm , Ingeborg Bachmann , Mark Anderson , Michael Bullock
4.64
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Tells the story of lives painfully intertwined: the unnamed narrator, haunted by nightmarish memori… read more
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6. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
7. A Horse at Night: On Writing
By: Amina Cain
4.03
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more
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"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
8. The Long Form
By: Kate Briggs
4.09
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Helen and her young baby, Rose, are awake. It is first thing on a new morning. They move, they rest… read more
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"For what if it were easier to love a pattern when you were a pattern yourself? When social life required that you fall into its established patterns, starting with the basic division of day and night…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
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By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
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"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
10. Tremor
By: Teju Cole
3.69
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more
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"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."-Teju Cole, Tremor
11. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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12. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
By: Anne de Marcken
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more
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"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
13. Mild Vertigo
By: Mieko Kanai
3.55
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more
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14. Affinities: On Art and Fascination
By: Brian Dillon
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A meditation on the power and pleasures of the image, from paintings to photographs to migraine aur… read more
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15. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
By: Mark O'Connell
3.74
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
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16. Brian
By: Jeremy Cooper
3.83
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
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17. The Observable Universe: An Investigation
By: Heather McCalden
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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18. Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors
By: Ian Penman
4.02
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
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"The problem with making art to wake people up: your ideal reader/viewer is therefore by definition probably asleep, and not the least bit interested in your kind of wake-up-you-sleepwalkers art."-Ian Penman, Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors
19. Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia
By: Marie Darrieussecq
3.65
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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20. Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
By: Lauren Elkin
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
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21. Blue
By: Derek Jarman
4.54
Format: 30 pages, Hardcover
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