Blue
By: Derek Jarman
4.54
Format: 30 pages, Hardcover
"I step into a blue funk,'' British author and filmmaker Jarman writes early on in this screenplay …
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1. Notes on the Cinematographer
By: J.M.G. Le Clézio , Robert Bresson , Jonathan Griffin
3.00
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
Robert Bresson makes some quite radical distinctions between what he terms "cinematography" and som… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- film
2. Woolgathering
By: Patti Smith
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
A great book about becoming an artist, Woolgatheringtells of a youngster finding herself as she lea… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
3. Hot Milk
By: Deborah Levy
3.94
Format: 489 pages, Hardcover
Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother… read more
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- lgbt
4. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
5. The Life of a Stupid Man
By: Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.' … read more
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6. Empire of the Senseless
By: Kathy Acker
3.50
Format: 519 pages,
Set in the near future, in a Paris devastated by revolution and disease, Empire of the Senselessis … read more
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8. Junky
By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more
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9. Playing to the Gallery
By: Grayson Perry
3.91
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Grayson Perry's book will overturn everything you thought you knew about "art" Now Grayson Perry is… read more
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10. Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
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- poetry
"I always give names to things"-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
11. A Girl's Story
By: Annie Ernaux
3.89
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernau… read more
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- nonfiction
"Un été immense comme ils le sont tous jusqu'à vingt-cinq ans"-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
"Everywhere on earth, with every day that dawns, a woman stands surrounded by men ready to throw stones at her."-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
"At this very moment, out in the streets, the open spaces, on the metro, in lecture halls, and inside millions of heads, millions of novels are being written chapter by chapter, erased and revised, an…"-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
"Aucun autre projet d’écriture ne me paraît, non pas lumineux, ni nouveau, encore moins heureux, mais vital, capable de me faire vivre au-dessus du temps. Juste « profiter de la vie » est une perspect…"-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
12. 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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- nonfiction
"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
13. 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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- art
- nonfiction
"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
14. Mamut
By: Eva Baltasar
3.58
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
La protagonista de Mamut és una dona arcaica atrapada en la vida moderna. El seu medi és la ciutat,… read more
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- lgbt
15. 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
16. Evenings and Weekends
By: Oisín McKenna
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more
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- lgbt
17. I Remain in Darkness
By: Annie Ernaux
3.99
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Written in journal form, Annie Ernaux's account of … read more
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- nonfiction
"Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?"-Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness
"As I bend forward to check the safety catch of my mother's wheelchair, she leans over and kisses my hair. How can I survive that kiss, such love, my mother, my mother."-Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness
18. 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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- art
"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
19. A palavra que resta
By: Stênio Gardel
4.05
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Uma carta guardada por mais de cinquenta anos — e jamais lida. É essa a relíquia que Raimundo leva … read more
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- lgbt
20. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
21. Play Boy
By: Constance Debré
3.25
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
" J'ai même pas osé mettre la langue la première fois que j'ai embrassé une fille. C'était après La… read more
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- lgbt
22. My Mother Laughs
By: Chantal Akerman
4.25
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
In 2013, the filmmaker Chantal Akerman's mother was dying. She flew back from New York to care for … read more
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- nonfiction
- film
- lgbt
23. Weird Fucks
By: Lynne Tillman
3.17
Format: None pages, None
Fiction. Women's Studies. Art by Amy Sillman. The long out-of-print 1978 novella by the brilliant L… read more
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- art
24. 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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- art
- nonfiction
25. Brian
By: Jeremy Cooper
3.83
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
A tender meditation on friendship and the importance of community, Brian is also a tangential wor… read more
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- art
- film
26. Arrangements in Blue
By: Amy Key
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
27. Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors
By: Ian Penman
4.02
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery - Fassbinder Thou… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- film
- lgbt
"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
28. Now Go: On Grief and Studio Ghibli
By: Karl Thomas Smith
3.55
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Grief is all around us. At the heart of the brightly coloured, vividly characterised, joyful films … read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- film
29. The Last Sane Woman
By: Hannah Regel
3.67
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A beguiling debut novel about friendship and failure, written with unusual craft and spryness by an… read more
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- art
30. Blue
By: Derek Jarman
4.54
Format: 30 pages, Hardcover
"I step into a blue funk,'' British author and filmmaker Jarman writes early on in this screenplay … read more
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- poetry
- art
- film
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- disability
31. Red Pilled Utopia
By: Ada Eliane
4.53
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
Red Pilled Utopia reașază poezia în teritoriile rebele ale visului, acolo unde rănile își găsesc ba… read more
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