8 Top nonfiction books like Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology by Philip Rosen

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Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology

By: Philip Rosen

3.95

Format: 549 pages, Paperback

Smartly selected and organized, the essays in this anthology introduce several central issues in fi…

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1. 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

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2. The Way Things Are

By: Rolfe Humphries , Lucretius

3.97

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

..". [captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and pro… read more

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  • nonfiction
"There can be no centre in infinity."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

"Nothing exists but amalgams of matter and space."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

"Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

"For whatever changes and leaves its natural bounds is instant death of that which was before."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

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3. The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

By: Audre Lorde

4.43

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

"These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page."—Adrienne Rich "The first declaration of a blac… read more

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"I see much better now and my eyes hurt."

-Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

"Always in the middle of our bloodiest battles you lay down your arms like flowering mines to conqueror me home."

-Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

"The Seventh Sense" Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea"

-Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

"And I knew when I entered her I was high wind in her forests hollow fingers whispering sound honey flowed from the split cup impaled on a lance of tongues on the tips of her breasts on her navel and …"

-Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

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4. Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more

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"Everything is gestation and then birthing."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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5. The Girls

By: Emma Cline

3.48

Format: 93 pages, Hardcover

Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thou… read more

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6. Tales of Desire

By: Tennessee Williams

4.15

Format: 399 pages, Paperback

"I cannot write any sort of story," said Tennessee [to Gore Vidal] "unless there is at least one ch… read more

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7. 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
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8. 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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  • nonfiction
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9. Written on the Body

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. … read more

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10. This Side of Paradise

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.64

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the a… read more

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"A squalid phantasmagoria of breath"

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

"Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

"Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

"Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

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11. Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more

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"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

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12. The Flame

By: Leonard Cohen

4.05

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span gene… read more

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  • nonfiction
"And that was my mistake I didn't kill the snake I gave the snake a break Unbiblical"

-Leonard Cohen, The Flame

"Straighten up, little warrior [...] It's not as though you wasted your life by loving me."

-Leonard Cohen, The Flame

"the flags from the nation but your absence comes from a terrible sleep under a huge museum Enter the moth holes of my longing"

-Leonard Cohen, The Flame

"I pray for courage I pray for courage Now I’m old To greet the sickness And the cold I pray for courage In the night To bear the burden Make it light I pray for courage In the time When suffering com…"

-Leonard Cohen, The Flame

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13. Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology

By: Philip Rosen

3.95

Format: 549 pages, Paperback

Smartly selected and organized, the essays in this anthology introduce several central issues in fi… read more

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4.40

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