Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
By: Rebecca Solnit
4.19
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books including the international bestseller Men E…
Want to Read $ 11.99"Cynicism is, first of all, a style of presenting oneself, and more than anything, cynics take pride in not being fooled and not being foolish. But in the forms in which I encounter it, cynicism is frequently both of those things."-Rebecca Solnit, Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
"Cynicism is, first of all, a style of presenting oneself, and more than anything, cynics take pride in not being fooled and not being foolish. But in the forms in which I encounter it, cynicism is frequently both of those things."-Rebecca Solnit, Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
"The current President's verbal abuse of language itself - with his slurred, sloshing semi-coherent word salad and his insistence that truth and fact are whatever he wants them to be, even if he wants them to be different from what they were yesterday, no matter what else he's serving, he's always serving meaninglessness."-Rebecca Solnit, Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
"The current President's verbal abuse of language itself - with his slurred, sloshing semi-coherent word salad and his insistence that truth and fact are whatever he wants them to be, even if he wants them to be different from what they were yesterday, no matter what else he's serving, he's always serving meaninglessness."-Rebecca Solnit, Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
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1. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
By: Toni Morrison
4.32
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensel… read more
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"What solicited my attention was whether the cultural associations of jazz were as important to Cardinal’s “possession"-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
"...Being simply illustrations, of how each of us reads, becomes engaged in and watches what is being read all at the same time."-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
"Der Afrikanismus ist das Vehikel, durch das sich das amerikanische Ich als nicht versklavt, sondern frei erfährt, als nicht abstoßend, sondern begehrenswert, nicht hilflos, sondern priviligiert und m…"-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
2. Possessed: The Secret of Myslotch
By: Witold Gombrowicz , J.A. Underwood
3.80
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
"Smuggling the most up-to-the-minute contraband in antiquated charabancs-that's what I like doing,"… read more
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3. My Year of Meats
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.02
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industri… read more
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"You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed."-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
"When I'd put enough distance between us, it occurred to me that I was probably the only person in the history of the world who has ever recalled Shōnagon in a strip joint in Texas. I liked that"-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
"Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the swell quickly subsides into the general glut of bad news over which we, as citizens, have so little…"-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
"I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If w…"-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
4. Animals Strike Curious Poses
By: Elena Passarello
3.80
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000 year old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian perm… read more
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- nonfiction
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"We seem programmed to work for a future which doesn’t concern us exactly, but that rather involves something that resembles us. We all walk through the woods, our bodies rushing at the atomic level t…"-Elena Passarello, Animals Strike Curious Poses
"As if every animal a human brain has ever seen, it has swallowed. We find their outlines, as if on Ouija boards, in mountains and in clouds. We scratch the arcs of their trunks in the dirt with our f…"-Elena Passarello, Animals Strike Curious Poses
5. The Journalist and the Murderer
By: Janet Malcolm , Ian Jack
3.84
Format: 135 pages,
In The Journalist And The Murderer, Janet Malcolm examines the psychopathology of journalism. She d… read more
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- nonfiction
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6. The Geek Feminist Revolution
By: Kameron Hurley
3.32
Format: 344 pages,
A powerful collection of essays on feminism, geek culture, and a writer's journey, from one of the … read more
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7. Abandon Me: Memoirs
By: Melissa Febos
3.64
Format: 221 pages,
For readers of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison, a fierce and dazzling personal narrative that expl… read more
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8. Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
By: bell hooks
3.81
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
bell hooks writes about the meaning of feminist consciousness in daily life and about self-recovery… read more
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10. Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them: When Loving Hurts and You Don't Know Why
By: Susan Forward , Joan Torres
3.34
Format: None pages, Paperback
Is this the way love is supposed to feel? * Does the man you love assume the right to control how y… read more
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11. Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
By: Alan Lightman
3.44
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams, an inspired, lyrical meditation on religion and sci… read more
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12. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
3.65
Format: 192 pages,
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategyis … read more
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13. The Colossus of New York
By: Colson Whitehead
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates… read more
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14. Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
By: Suzanne Scanlon
4.22
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once. When Su… read more
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"Only in retrospect might I say I loved it there. I didn't love it. It became familiar. I got used to it. I became dependent upon it. This is not love."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"I became a writer because I believe in that part of me who is not limited by age or gender or time or disability - yet still I am afraid to say it. Yes, I was ill."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"I myself have internalized the self-loathing that at times can make me feel ashamed to be writing this book. But I also believe that, as my heroes have shown me, this is where a writer must go."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"What if, instead of being diagnosed—being called mentally ill—what if I had been able to receive care for its own sake. To be in distress, to ask for care, to receive it. What if there were space in …"-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
15. 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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"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
16. Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm
By: Emmeline Clein
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal cult… read more
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17. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
By: Geraldine DeRuiter
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more
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18. Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
By: Geena Rocero
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
“A moving chronicle of trans resilience and joy” (Vogue) from one of Out100’s Most Impactful and In… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Geena, you speak about transgender rights and FIlipino food with equal expertise."-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"That's the thing about trans joy: It can never be fully extinguished. People can try to narrow the possibilities for our lives, even end them, but our spirits will always expand to fill whatever spac…"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"I didn't need to come out ot her. I never said those declarative words - and I didn't even know them at the time. Vocabulary like trans would come much later in my life. All I needed was to hear the …"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"Despite the ubiquity of government-organized trans pageants in the Philippines, trans people themselves are not politically recognized. We are culturally visible but legally erased. To this day, tran…"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
19. Dykette
By: Jenny Fran Davis
2.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more
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20. The Jaguar
By: Sarah Holland-Batt
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
With electrifying boldness, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishi… read more
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21. I Am Bunny: How a "Talking" Dog Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About Being Human
By: Alexis Devine
4.14
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Social media stars of @WhatAboutBunny, Alexis Devine and Bunny the "talking" dog, deliver a memoir … read more
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22. How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir
By: Shayla Lawson
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Phenomenal.... A memoir that opens into the world, with brilliance, courage, and elegant prose....… read more
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23. Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
By: Rebecca Solnit
4.19
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books including the international bestseller Men E… read more
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- gender
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- social justice
- essays
- activism
- sociology
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"Cynicism is, first of all, a style of presenting oneself, and more than anything, cynics take pride in not being fooled and not being foolish. But in the forms in which I encounter it, cynicism is fr…"-Rebecca Solnit, Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
"The current President's verbal abuse of language itself - with his slurred, sloshing semi-coherent word salad and his insistence that truth and fact are whatever he wants them to be, even if he wants…"-Rebecca Solnit, Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
24. Toxische Weiblichkeit
By: Sophia Fritz
4.29
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
Sophia Fritz analysiert Weiblichkeit in all ihren Facetten. »Man lernt als Powerfrau so vieles aus … read more
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25. This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal
By: Octavia Bright
4.32
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
I kept putting myself in danger, and I couldn't make it stop. It rarely felt like a choice, though,… read more
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26. Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World
By: Laurence C. Smith
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
"This book about rivers is as fascinating as it's beautifully written."---Jared Diamond, Pulitzer P… read more
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27. The Laughter
By: Sonora Jha
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An aging white male college professor develops a dangerous obsession with his new Pakistani colleag… read more
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- audiobook
28. Around the World in 80 Books
By: David Damrosch
3.63
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works … read more
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- history
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29. The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
By: Anna Clark
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first full account of the Flint, Michigan, water scandal, an American tragedy, with new details… read more
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- social justice
- sociology
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30. The Sprawl: Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs
By: Jason Diamond
3.23
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness,… read more
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- politics
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- sociology
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31. There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness
By: M. Leona Godin
4.30
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Homer to Helen Keller, from Dune to Stevie Wonder, from the invention of braille to the scienc… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- sociology
- audiobook
"Because, let's face it, when sighted people are not accusing us of pretending to be blind, they are making jokes about our blindness."-M. Leona Godin, There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness
"Saunderson lectured on light, lenses, optics, the phenomenon of the rainbow, and other subjects connected with sight. He also helped to make Newton's theories of the Principia Mathematica and other w…"-M. Leona Godin, There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness
"Diderot ends his Letter with a fiction—an imagined scene of Saunderson on his deathbed, with a clergyman named Mr. Holmes trying to convert him. The sighted clergyman begins by pontificating on the w…"-M. Leona Godin, There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness
