Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman
By: Jane Bennett
4.17
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
In influx & efflux Jane Bennett pursues a question that was bracketed in her book Vibrant Matter: h…
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1. Dutchman & The Slave: Two Plays by LeRoi Jones
By: Amiri Baraka
3.77
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
" Dutchman is designed to shock—its basic idea, its language and its murderous rage." — New York T… read more
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2. The Emigrants
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
4.17
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth… read more
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"It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know what it is that someone dies of. Yes, it is very hard, said Mme Landau, one really doesn't know."-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants
"The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance, and the Alpine panorama that occupied h…"-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants
3. The Death and Life of Great American Cities
By: Jane Jacobs
4.30
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arroganc… read more
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- nonfiction
"We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
4. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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- nonfiction
"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
5. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
By: Clayton Eshleman , Aimé Césaire , Annette Smith , Annette Smith
4.10
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural … read more
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- nonfiction
"A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle."-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
"Écoutez le monde blanc horriblement las de son effort immense ses articulations rebelles craquer sous les étoiles dures ses raideurs d'acier bleu transperçant la chair mystique écoute ses victoires p…"-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
"And if all I know how to do is speak, it is for you that I shall speak. My lips shall speak for miseries that have no mouth, my voice shall be the liberty of those who languish in the dungeon of desp…"-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
". . . car il n'est point vrai que l'oeuvre de l'homme est finie que nous n'avons rien à faire au monde que nous parasitons le monde qu'il suffit que nous nous mettions au pas du monde mais l'oeuvre d…"-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
6. The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
By: Muriel Spark
3.65
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—i… read more
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"it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls."-Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
"- 'Poise is perfect balance, an equanimity of body and mind, complete composure whatever the social scene. Elegant dress, immaculate grooming, and perfect deportment all contribute to the attainment …"-Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
7. Mrs. Dalloway
By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard
3.79
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more
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"Life stand still here."-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"What a lark! What a plunge!"-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"To love makes one solitary."-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
8. The Waves
By: Virginia Woolf
4.15
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six chara… read more
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"Death is woven in with the violets,"-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
9. Poetics of Relation
By: Édouard Glissant , Betsy Wing
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Edouard Glissant, long recognized in the French and francophone world as one of the greatest writer… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
10. After Nature
By: W.G. Sebald , Michael Hamburger
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
After Nature, W. G. Sebald's first literary work, now translated into English by Michael Hamburger,… read more
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11. The Three Ecologies
By: Félix Guattari
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
Extending the definition of ecology to encompass social relations and human subjectivity as well as… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
12. Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour
By: Carol Mavor
4.08
Format: 31 pages, Hardcover
The sea, the sky, the veins of your hands, the earth when photographed from space--blue sometimes s… read more
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- nonfiction
13. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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- nonfiction
14. The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities
By: Eric Hayot
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Eric Hayot teaches graduate students and faculty in literary and cultural studies how to think and … read more
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- nonfiction
15. Cannibal Metaphysics
By: Eduardo Viveiros de Castro , None
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, well known i… read more
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16. Nox
By: Anne Carson
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Noxis an epitaph in the form of a book, a facsimile of a handmade book Anne Carson wrote and create… read more
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17. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
By: Donna J. Haraway
3.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway o… read more
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18. Happening
By: Annie Ernaux
4.32
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more
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"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
19. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
By: Olga Ravn
3.67
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more
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"This is not a human, but a coworker."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
20. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
21. Notes on ‘Camp’
By: Susan Sontag
3.97
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the f… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine…"-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
22. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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23. Cursed Bunny
By: Bora Chung
3.78
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring t… read more
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"Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle"-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"One can break the curse, but it is impossible to cure their blindness from greed. They were always ready to wage another war"-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"But there I remained, standing in the bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life."-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it."-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
24. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
By: Jenny Odell
3.68
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
25. Sea & Fog (Lambda Literary Award - Lesbian Poetry)
By: Etel Adnan
4.23
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
These interrelated meditations explore the nature of the individual spirit and the individual spiri… read more
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26. Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman
By: Jane Bennett
4.17
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
In influx & efflux Jane Bennett pursues a question that was bracketed in her book Vibrant Matter: h… read more
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27. Traité du tout-monde (Poétique IV)
By: Édouard Glissant
4.15
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
"J'appelle Chaos-monde le choc actuel de tant de cultures qui s'embrasent, se repoussent, disparais… read more
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