Interior States: Essays
By: Meghan O'Gieblyn
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Winner of The Believer Book Award for Nonfiction "Meghan O'Gieblyn's deep and searching essays are…
Want to Read $ 13.99"But people who've gotten that far into the faith never totally shake it. To be a former believer is to perpetually return to the scene of the crime. It's been ten years since I left Moody, and I still find myself stalling on the Christian radio station to hear a call-in debate, or lurking around the religion section of chain bookstores, perusing the titles on the Christianity shelves like a porn addict sneaking a glance at a Victoria's Secret Catalog."-Meghan O'Gieblyn, Interior States: Essays
"But people who've gotten that far into the faith never totally shake it. To be a former believer is to perpetually return to the scene of the crime. It's been ten years since I left Moody, and I still find myself stalling on the Christian radio station to hear a call-in debate, or lurking around the religion section of chain bookstores, perusing the titles on the Christianity shelves like a porn addict sneaking a glance at a Victoria's Secret Catalog."-Meghan O'Gieblyn, Interior States: Essays
"There's a widespread misconception that biblical literalism is facile and mindless, but the doctrine I was introduced to at Moody was every bit as complicated and arcane as Marxist theory or post-structuralism.... In many ways, Christian literalism is even more complicated than liberal brands of theology because it involves the sticky task of reconciling the overlay myth—the story of redemption—with a wildly inconsistent body of scripture. This requires consummate parsing of Old Testament commands, distinguishing between the universal (e.g., thou shalt not kill) from those particular to the Mosaic law that are no longer relevant after the death of Christ (e.g., a sexually violated woman must marry her rapist). It requires making the elaborate case that the Song of Solomon, a book of Hebrew erotica that managed to wangle its way into the canon, is a metaphor about Christ's love for the church, and that the starkly nihilistic book of Ecclesiastes is a representation of the hopelessness of life without God."-Meghan O'Gieblyn, Interior States: Essays
"There's a widespread misconception that biblical literalism is facile and mindless, but the doctrine I was introduced to at Moody was every bit as complicated and arcane as Marxist theory or post-structuralism.... In many ways, Christian literalism is even more complicated than liberal brands of theology because it involves the sticky task of reconciling the overlay myth—the story of redemption—with a wildly inconsistent body of scripture. This requires consummate parsing of Old Testament commands, distinguishing between the universal (e.g., thou shalt not kill) from those particular to the Mosaic law that are no longer relevant after the death of Christ (e.g., a sexually violated woman must marry her rapist). It requires making the elaborate case that the Song of Solomon, a book of Hebrew erotica that managed to wangle its way into the canon, is a metaphor about Christ's love for the church, and that the starkly nihilistic book of Ecclesiastes is a representation of the hopelessness of life without God."-Meghan O'Gieblyn, Interior States: Essays
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By: Eula Biss
4.18
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
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"An apology is also an admission of guilt"-Eula Biss, Notes from No Man's Land
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"Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared."-Eula Biss, Notes from No Man's Land
"If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent."-Eula Biss, Notes from No Man's Land
2. 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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3. My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
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4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
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5. Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors
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3.28
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4.24
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7. The Denial of Death
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3.95
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"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
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"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
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4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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By: Vinson Cunningham
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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11. The Altar Within: A Radical Devotional Guide to Liberate the Divine Self
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4.06
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
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4.14
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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"Someday, we'll be able to trace all mental illnesses to autoimmune disorders. But we're not there yet."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"The line between insanity and mysticism is thin; the line between reality and unreality is thin. Liminality as a spiritual concept is all about the porousness of boundaries."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
13. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
14. Devout: A Memoir of Doubt
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3.63
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
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15. Trick
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3.71
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
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16. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
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4.09
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"İkinci Aydınlanma salt verilerle işleyen bilginin devrimidir."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
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"People who fail in the neoliberal archievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
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17. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
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4.50
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Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrenc… read more
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18. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
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4.25
Format: 304 pages, ebook
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"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
19. Reading Genesis
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4.10
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more
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20. The Boy in the Field
By: Margot Livesey
3.71
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy delivers another “luminous, unfo… read more
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21. Private Equity: A Memoir
By: Carrie Sun
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A gripping memoir of one woman’s self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indict… read more
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"A gift weighed down by the imposition of gratitude becomes an expectation; over time, it becomes debt."-Carrie Sun, Private Equity: A Memoir
22. The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden (The Vanderbeekers, #2)
By: Karina Yan Glaser
4.41
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Return to Harlem's "wildly entertaining" family in this funny, heartwarming sequel. When catastroph… read more
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"Music makes a garden bloom. -Isa"-Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden (The Vanderbeekers, #2)
"Keep calm and garden on! -Oliver"-Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden (The Vanderbeekers, #2)
"Being in a garden makes we want to dance! -Laney"-Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden (The Vanderbeekers, #2)
"A garden should always have a party in it. -Jessie"-Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden (The Vanderbeekers, #2)
23. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
By: Andrew Leland
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more
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"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
24. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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25. How to Read Now
By: Elaine Castillo
4.03
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of som… read more
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"When artists bemoan the rise of political correctness in our cultural discourse, what they’re really bemoaning is the rise of this unexpected reader. They’re bemoaning the arrival of someone who does…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
"When white readers claim to be made uncomfortable—as many I heard from claimed—by the presence of something like untranslated words in fiction, what they’re really saying is: I have always been the e…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
"I realize now that being an unexpected reader has turned out to be the most valuable gift of my intellectual life. The fact that I was an unexpected reader—an interloper, in so many worlds—meant that…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
"[T]he idea that some of us can simply opt out of politics—the idea that politics is something one chooses as a vocation, rather than something we have whether we choose it or not; something that enco…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
26. What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
By: Emma Dabiri
4.41
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER In the spirit of We Should All Be Feminists and How to Be an Antiracist, a… read more
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"This racialized ordering of the world is endemic to a system that has inculcated us all with a scarcity mindset, which is a great deal at odds with the abundance that truly exists in the world."-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
"Racial categories were invented to enshrine the idea of white supremacy. They are the product of Eurocentrism and colonialism. To act in ways that reinforce their fixedness rather than undermine them…"-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
"Universal healthcare, free education, access to decent and affordable housing, safe working conditions, and occupations that provide a sense of fulfillment and meaning are all pretty basic and fundam…"-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
"Investment in the absoluteness of racial categories is in fact a conservative, fearful choice. What would be truly radical would be to sound the death knoll for the fiction that white people constitu…"-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
27. The Book of Elsewhere
By: Keanu Reeves
3.42
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more
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28. The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
By: Elisa Gabbert
4.20
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
"Terror, disaster, memory, selfhood, happiness . . . leave it to a poet to tackle the unthinkable s… read more
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"In the era of fake news - a natural extension of the era of news proper - we don't just look to the media for facts, we look to it for narratives."-Elisa Gabbert, The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
"Often, when something bad happens, I have a strange, instinctual desire for things to get even worse—I think of a terrible outcome and then wish for it. I recognize the pattern, but I don’t understan…"-Elisa Gabbert, The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
29. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays
By: Elisa Gabbert
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more
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30. Interior States: Essays
By: Meghan O'Gieblyn
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Winner of The Believer Book Award for Nonfiction "Meghan O'Gieblyn's deep and searching essays are… read more
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"But people who've gotten that far into the faith never totally shake it. To be a former believer is to perpetually return to the scene of the crime. It's been ten years since I left Moody, and I stil…"-Meghan O'Gieblyn, Interior States: Essays
"There's a widespread misconception that biblical literalism is facile and mindless, but the doctrine I was introduced to at Moody was every bit as complicated and arcane as Marxist theory or post-str…"-Meghan O'Gieblyn, Interior States: Essays
"This is not to say that I have outgrown those elemental desires that drew me to transhumanism—just that they express themselves in more conventional ways. Over the intervening years, I have given up …"-Meghan O'Gieblyn, Interior States: Essays
