Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form
By: Sianne Ngai
4.12
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A provocative theory of the gimmick as an aesthetic category steeped in the anxieties of capitalism…
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1. The Idiot
By: Elif Batuman
3.66
Format: 423 pages, Hardcover
A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself… read more
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"For a while now, I have been conscious of a tension in my relationship with you,"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
"Lighting a match felt exciting and a little bit dangerous, and when the flame came into contact with the paper, it made a sound like the needle coming down on a record player—like the music was about…"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
"For the first time in my life, I couldn't think of anything I particularly wanted to study or to do. I still had the old idea of being a writer, but that was being, not doing. It didn't say what you …"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
"Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the point of writing wasn't just to record something past but also to prolong the present, like in One Thousand and One Nights, to stretch out the time until the…"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
2. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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- philosophy
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- sociology
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
3. The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
By: Norman G. Finkelstein
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own gain. In a… read more
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4. Cruel Optimism
By: Lauren Berlant
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flour… read more
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5. The Savage Detectives
By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in p… read more
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6. The Technological Society
By: Robert K. Merton , Jacques Ellul
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
."..He goes through one human activity after another and shows how it has been technicized, rendere… read more
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7. Metamorphoses
By: Ovid , David Raeburn , Denis Feeney
3.99
Format: 240 pages,
Metamorphoses (from Greek meta meta and morphe morphe, meaning "changes of shape"), is a Latin narr… read more
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8. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
9. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
10. Wednesday's Child: Stories
By: Yiyun Li
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the awa… read more
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11. The Librarianist
By: Patrick deWitt
3.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more
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12. Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
By: Anna Kornbluh
4.08
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural style Contemporary cultural style boo… read more
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- nonfiction
- criticism
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13. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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- philosophy
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
14. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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15. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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- nonfiction
16. 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
17. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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18. Second Place
By: Rachel Cusk
3.68
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed s… read more
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"Some people write simply because they don’t know how to live in the moment and have to reconstruct it and live in it afterwards."-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
"Muutoksen ja toiston kaava on niin tiukasti yhteydessä tietynlaiseen harmoniaan elämässä, ja vapauden harjoittaminen on alisteista sille aivan kuin opinkappaleelle. Muutoksia täytyy annostella kohtuu…"-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
"Joskus minun vain täytyy saada puhua jotta tuntisin itseni todelliseksi, ja toivoisin että sinäkin puhuisit minulle." Hän makasi vaiti pimeässä ja tuijotti kattoon. Sitten hän sanoi: "Minusta tuntuu …"-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
"It struck me how the human capacity for receptivity is a kind of birthright, an asset given to us in the moment of our creation by which we are intended to regulate the currency of our souls. Unless …"-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
19. Territory of Light
By: Yūko Tsushima
3.59
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Territory of Light is the luminous story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her three-yea… read more
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"Why were children the only ones who ever got to melt down?"-Yūko Tsushima, Territory of Light
"During the night, there had been a sound of water on the other side of the wall. In my sleep I was looking out from the fourth-floor bedroom at nearby buildings bathed in rain, gleaming with neon and…"-Yūko Tsushima, Territory of Light
20. Tremor
By: Teju Cole
3.69
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more
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"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."-Teju Cole, Tremor
21. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
By: Dean Spade
4.38
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more
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"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
22. The Romance of American Communism
By: Vivian Gornick
4.34
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
Writer and critic Vivian Gornick's classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to Am… read more
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"My father had a sister, Mady, who had married badly and ‘ruined her life.’ Her story was a classic. She had fallen in love before the war with an American adventurer, married him against her family’s…"-Vivian Gornick, The Romance of American Communism
23. The Guest Lecture
By: Martin Riker
3.51
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to he… read more
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- economics
24. Happy Stories, Mostly
By: Norman Erikson Pasaribu
3.77
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Playful, shape-shifting and emotionally charged, Happy Stories, Mostly is a collection of twelve st… read more
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25. On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
By: Maggie Nelson
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture… read more
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"Nothing stays avant-garde forever; you have to keep moving."-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
"As we think, we might remember that it matters not only with whom and what we choose to think; it also matters what spirit we choose to think with."-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
"This is one of the things I’ve learned about happiness: when you feel it, it’s good to say so. That way, if and when you say later in depression or despair, “I’ve just never been happy,"-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
"The reparative turn, as applied to art, is in many ways a continuation of the orthopedic aesthetic, with the difference being that the twentieth-century model imagined the audience as numb, constrict…"-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
26. The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
By: Eleanor Janega
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited h… read more
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27. Daughter
By: Claudia Dey
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In Claudia Dey’s Daughter, a woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life—and art—o… read more
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28. The Iliac Crest
By: Cristina Rivera Garza
3.65
Format: 200 pages, ebook
On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator's house, where they pro… read more
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"An intimate and familiar deception was taking its usual place within me with the feeble movements of an elderly woman."-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Iliac Crest
29. Like Love: Essays and Conversations
By: Maggie Nelson
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a… read more
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30. Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form
By: Sianne Ngai
4.12
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A provocative theory of the gimmick as an aesthetic category steeped in the anxieties of capitalism… read more
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31. Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today
By: Claire Bishop
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
How technology and the attention economy has impacted contemporary art The ways we encounter conte… read more
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