Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures)
By: Teju Cole
4.22
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A profound book of essays from a celebrated master of the form. “Darkness is not empty,” writes Tej…
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1. Going to Meet the Man
By: James Baldwin
4.37
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
This is an older edition of ISBN 9780679761792. "There's no way not to suffer. But you try all k… read more
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- literature
"There were pauses in the music for the rushing, calling, halting piano. Everything would stop except the climbing of the soloist; he would reach a height and everything would join him, the violins fi…"-James Baldwin, Going to Meet the Man
2. Sudden Death
By: Natasha Wimmer , Álvaro Enrigue
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas in the sixteenth century that co… read more
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- literature
- art
"Tal vez todos los libros se escriben sólo porque los malos juegan con ventaja y eso es insoportable."-Natasha Wimmer, Sudden Death
"Encuerados, solo deberían alborotarnos los monstruos, y sin embargo lo que nos trastorna es lo que se asemeja a un estándar"-Natasha Wimmer, Sudden Death
"Ya no era cosa de vida o muerte, sino de victoria y derrota--valores mucho más complejos y duros de llevar porque el que pierde un duelo a espada no tiene que vivir con ello."-Natasha Wimmer, Sudden Death
"It isn't a book about Caravaggio or Quevedo, though Caravaggio and Quevedo are in the book, as are Cortés and Cuauhtémoc, and Galileo and Pius IV. Gigantic individuals facing off. All fucking, gettin…"-Natasha Wimmer, Sudden Death
3. Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
By: Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The poetry and prose collected in Plainwaterare a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Ann… read more
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- literature
- nonfiction
- essays
4. Six Memos For The Next Millennium
By: Italo Calvino
3.71
Format: 656 pages,
Six Memos for the Millenniumis a collection of five lectures Italo Calvino was about to deliver at … read more
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- philosophy
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5. By Night in Chile
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.89
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more
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- literature
"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
6. Selected Stories
By: Robert Walser , Susan Sontag , Christopher Middleton
4.28
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
How to place the mysterious Swiss writer Robert Walser, a humble genius who possessed one of the mo… read more
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7. At the Bottom of the River
By: Jamaica Kincaid
3.29
Format: 368 pages,
Jamaica Kincaid's inspired, lyrical short stories Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, int… read more
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8. The Last Samurai
By: Helen DeWitt
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, … read more
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9. Nazi Literature in the Americas
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
Nazi Literature in the Americas was the first of Roberto Bolano's books to reach a wide public. Whe… read more
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10. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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11. 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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- literature
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
"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
12. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
13. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- criticism
- essays
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
14. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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- literature
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
15. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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- nonfiction
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
16. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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- nonfiction
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
17. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
18. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
19. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
20. The Pole
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.69
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
A psychologically probing, compulsively readable novel about dogged love and the unpredictability o… read more
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- literature
21. 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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"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
22. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
By: Dipo Faloyin
4.43
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more
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- africa
- nonfiction
- essays
23. The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
3.38
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more
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24. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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- literature
25. 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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26. On Connection
By: Kae Tempest
4.17
Format: 129 pages, Hardcover
From the Ted Hughes award winner and Sunday TImes bestselling authour Kae Tempest. The increasin… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
"When I am numb, how can I make myself connected? I can't. But I can try to create an environment that is welcoming for connection if it should turn up."-Kae Tempest, On Connection
"Words on a page are incomplete. The poem, the novel or the non-fiction pamphlet are finished when they are taken up and engaged with. Connection is collaborative. For words to have meaning, they have…"-Kae Tempest, On Connection
"We are empathic beings who feel for each other. Our very success as a species is rooted in our ability to be aware of each other's needs, to notice each other's pain and to experience deeply felt phy…"-Kae Tempest, On Connection
"The work that I do on myself may not be evident in my daily exchanges, but little by little, if I continue, I hope that my actions will reflect my changing mindset, and next time, I promise myself, I…"-Kae Tempest, On Connection
27. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
28. A Year of Last Things: Poems
By: Michael Ondaatje
3.61
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began h… read more
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29. Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures)
By: Teju Cole
4.22
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A profound book of essays from a celebrated master of the form. “Darkness is not empty,” writes Tej… read more
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- africa
- nigeria
- literature
- photography
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- criticism
- essays
- writing
30. Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy
By: Ben Davis
4.48
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
“This kaleidoscopic collection will help you see and comprehend the world anew—which is, in my book… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
31. Catalina
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
3.65
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more
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