The Second Body
By: Daisy Hildyard
3.63
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
Every living thing has two bodies. To be an animal is to be in the possession of a physical body, a…
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1. The Changeling
By: Thomas Middleton , William Rowley
3.61
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume Th… read more
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- british literature
"Let me feel how thy pulses beat."-Thomas Middleton, The Changeling
"Tis time to die, when 'tis a shame to live."-Thomas Middleton, The Changeling
"She that in life and love refuses me, In death and shame my partner she shall be."-Thomas Middleton, The Changeling
"FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy."-Thomas Middleton, The Changeling
2. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.05
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- essays
"[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"[C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon admixture and interbreeding."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"As an instrument of empowerment oil has been spectacularly effective in removing the levers of power from the reach of the populace. "No matter how many people take to the streets in massive marches,…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
3. The Hatred of Poetry
By: Ben Lerner
3.71
Format: 435 pages,
No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wr… read more
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5. News from Nowhere
By: William Morris , David Leopold
3.50
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
News from Nowhere(1890) is the best-known prose work of William Morris and the only significant Eng… read more
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6. Well
By: Lisa Kron
3.80
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
The acclaimed writer and performer Lisa Kron's newest work is all about her mom. It explores the dy… read more
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7. Woman on the Edge of Time
By: Marge Piercy
3.29
Format: None pages,
Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly s… read more
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8. Essayism
By: Brian Dillon
3.82
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
The essay is a venerable form that may well be the genre of the future. It has its origins in a mod… read more
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9. Pale Horse, Pale Rider
By: Katherine Anne Porter
3.96
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
First published in 1939, these three short novels secured the author's reputation as a master of sh… read more
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10. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"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
11. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
12. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
13. On Women
By: Susan Sontag
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on ag… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
"Dividing time into Past, Present, and Future suggests that reality is distributed equally among three parts, but in fact the past is the most real of all. The future is, inevitably, an accumulation o…"-Susan Sontag, On Women
14. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- british literature
"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
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"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
15. My Death
By: Lisa Tuttle
3.98
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more
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16. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
By: Olivia Laing
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in th… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you."-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around s…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"Fiction can do that: can make a space for reflecting, for generating novel ways of responding and reacting to lies and guns and walls alike. The mere act of cracking open a book, Smith thinks, is cre…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"These narratives are interesting in and of themselves, but Nelson isn’t just airing her feelings out. She’s bent on using these experiences as ways of prying the culture open, of investigating what i…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
17. Everything Under
By: Daisy Johnson
3.51
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
The dictionary doesn’t contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than… read more
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- british literature
"Death has worn you smooth as a stone."-Daisy Johnson, Everything Under
"The understanding pity of others is a hole."-Daisy Johnson, Everything Under
"Anything can be lost if you try hard enough."-Daisy Johnson, Everything Under
"Forgetting is, I think, a form of protection."-Daisy Johnson, Everything Under
18. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
19. Red Pill
By: Hari Kunzru
3.67
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the widely acclaimed author of White Tears, a bold new novel about searching for order in a w… read more
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"Now what I think of when I think of my “self"-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill
"You do strike me more as the secular type. A believer in progress, religion of the liberals."-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill
"Plot is the artificial reduction of life’s complexity and randomness. It is a way to give aesthetic form to reality."-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill
"Ο άνθρωπος μόνος του είναι κρέας για τους λύκους. Έτσι μας θέλουν. Απομονωμένους. Θηράματα. Άρα πρέπει να βρούμε ο ένας τον άλλον. Πρέπει να θυμόμαστε ότι δεν μπορούμε να υπάρξουμε μόνοι."-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill
20. 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
21. 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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22. Lovebug
By: Daisy Lafarge
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
The pathogen arrives anyway and takes a seat at the table. Conditioned to welcome damage, I am curi… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"The good dog leaves a dent but not a wound, a dent which nods toward the possibility of puncture and says I am not the wound, but I could be."-Daisy Lafarge, Lovebug
23. Of Cattle and Men
By: Ana Paula Maia
3.97
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated … read more
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- 21st century
- animals
"Senhor Milo knows cattlemen, he's cut from the same cloth. No one goes unpunished. They're men of cattle and blood."-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side and the mooing on the other distinguish the men from the ruminants."-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead. The cow stomps one hoof, wags its tail and snorts. Edgar shushes the animal a…"-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"For a few moments, Edgar Wilson yields to the late afternoon sun that has not yet fully set, but that is rushing headlong into a moonless, starless night. He knows how to listen in silence, even when…"-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
24. The Book of All Loves
By: Agustín Fernández Mallo
3.51
Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition
In the wake of the Great Blackout, faced with the near-extinction of humanity, a pair of lovers spe… read more
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- philosophy
25. Death by Landscape
By: Elvia Wilk
4.19
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
From the author of Oval, a collection of “fan nonfiction” that proposes new possibilities and genea… read more
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- environment
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
26. The Book of Ayn
By: Lexi Freiman
3.22
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An original and hilarious satire of both our political culture and those who rage against it, The B… read more
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"I met Ming at an old run-down bistro in Santa Monica. My friend had been writing her great McLuhanesque horror film for the last nine years—"The Medium Is the Monster." Each time she finished a draft…"-Lexi Freiman, The Book of Ayn
27. The Second Body
By: Daisy Hildyard
3.63
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
Every living thing has two bodies. To be an animal is to be in the possession of a physical body, a… read more
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- memoir
- british literature
- theory
- animals
- natural history
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- 21st century
- environment
28. This Little Art
By: Kate Briggs
4.35
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs’s This Little Art is a genre-bending s… read more
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- theory
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
29. Porn: An Oral History
By: Polly Barton
3.34
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the a… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
30. A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
By: Kathryn Yusoff
4.04
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene No geology is neutral, writes Kathryn Yusoff.… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- environment
31. Ill Feelings
By: Alice Hattrick
4.06
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Ill Feelings blends memoir, medical history, biography and literary non-fiction to uncover untold c… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"Every day that starts ‘let’s just try to have a better day than yesterday’ ends in a worse one. Who gave me this shitty advice - or did I make it up? Why am I setting myself such a high standard?"-Alice Hattrick, Ill Feelings
