Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
By: Jesse McCarthy
4.33
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ranging from Ta-Nehisi Coates’s case for reparations to Toni Morrison’s revolutionary humanism to D…
Want to Read $ 9.99If you liked the essays plot in Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays by Jesse McCarthy , here is a list of 13 books like this:
1. Pond
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
4.33
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Feverish and forthright, Pondis an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudin… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Claire-Louise Bennett's Pond book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
- poetry
"If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things: I expect I will always have to do it that way; regrettably I don't think my first …"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"Quite often I'm terribly disappointed by how things turn out, but it's usually my own fault for the simple reason that I'm too quick to conclude that things have turned out as fully as it is possible…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
2. All About Love: New Visions
By: bell hooks
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in bell hooks's All About Love: New Visions book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
3. Go Tell It on the Mountain
By: James Baldwin
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
- race
4. Nobody Knows My Name
By: James Baldwin
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Told with Baldwin's characteristically unflinching honesty, this collection of illuminating, deeply… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
- nonfiction
- race
- history
- essays
5. Eros the Bittersweet
By: Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
- poetry
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
6. 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
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Maggie Nelson's Bluets book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
7. Known and Strange Things: Essays
By: Teju Cole
3.97
Format: 176 pages,
The 40-plus essays will span art, literature, and politics, with topics from Virginia Woolf and Jam… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Teju Cole's Known and Strange Things: Essays book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
8. Bliss Montage
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Ling Ma's Bliss Montage book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
9. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Jesmyn Ward's Let Us Descend book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
- race
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
10. Monstrilio
By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Gerardo Sámano Córdova's Monstrilio book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
11. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Naomi Klein's Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
- philosophy
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
12. Chain-Gang All-Stars
By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4.14
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Chain-Gang All-Stars book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
13. Elena Knows
By: Claudia Piñeiro
4.08
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
A unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individ… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Claudia Piñeiro's Elena Knows book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
"¿Seguirá siendo madre ahora que no tiene hija?"-Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows
14. Thick: And Other Essays
By: Tressie McMillan Cottom
4.44
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Smart, humorous, and strikingly original thoughts on race, beauty, money, and more—by one of today'… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Tressie McMillan Cottom's Thick: And Other Essays book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
- race
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
"I fix myself, even when it causes great pain to do so, because I know that I cannot fix the way the world sees me."-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays
"Indeed, any system of oppression must allow exceptions to validate itself as meritorious. How else will those who are oppressed by the system internalize their own oppression?"-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays
"Smart is only a construct of correspondence between one's abilities, one's environment, and one's moment in history. I am smart in the right way, in the right time, on the right end of globalization."-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays
"The networks of capital, be they politics or organizations, work most effeciently when your lowedst status characteristic is assumed. And once these gears are in motion, you can never be competent en…"-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays
15. Stay True
By: Hua Hsu
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Hua Hsu's Stay True book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
- race
- nonfiction
"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
16. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Henry Grabar's Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
17. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Justin Torres's Blackouts book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
18. 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
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Oisín McKenna's Evenings and Weekends book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
19. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.60
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
- poetry
- race
- history
- nonfiction
- essays
"When someone loves loudly, with everything they have in them, the withholding of that loud love, even briefly, feels impossible to endure."-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"If I am going to be afraid, I might as well do it honest. Arm in arm with everyone I love, adorned in blood and bruises, singing jokes on our way to the grave."-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"I have wanted to die enough times in my life to understand the idea that wanting to die is not a foolish thing... I don't mean to prop up the idea of wanting an exit, but for me, not to imagine it as…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"Of the many things America loves to pat itself on the back about, one of the things is an obsession with exploration, or the desire to seek places beyond the places you are from or the places you hav…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
20. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
By: Alexander Chee
4.39
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literat… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Alexander Chee's How to Write an Autobiographical Novel book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
- nonfiction
- essays
"Destroying art is practice for destroying people."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"...books were still to me as they had been when I found them: the only magic."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"My first novel was not the first one I started. It was the first one I finished."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
21. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Daniel Immerwahr's How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
22. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
By: Rachel Aviv
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Rachel Aviv's Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
- nonfiction
- essays
"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
23. Recitatif
By: Toni Morrison
4.31
Format: 19 pages, Audiobook
A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Toni Morrison's Recitatif book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
- race
"Difficult to “move on"-Toni Morrison, Recitatif
24. This Strange Eventful History
By: Claire Messud
3.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more
Want to Read $ 9.66Similar categories in Claire Messud's This Strange Eventful History book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
25. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- essays
"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
26. The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
3.38
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more
Want to Read $ 5.99Similar categories in Brandon Taylor's The Late Americans book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
27. 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
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Teju Cole's Tremor book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
- race
"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
28. Heavy
By: Kiese Laymon
4.48
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores … read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Kiese Laymon's Heavy book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
"The violent white backlash to Obama’s victory will still be unlike anything we’d ever seen..."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"Y'all taught me that unacknowledged scars accumulated in battles won often hurt more than battles lost."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"Even when I know you're lying to me, I just feel crazy sorry for you. Why? Because I can just tell you'll never let me carry what you're hiding."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"The nation as it is currently constituted has never dealt with a yesterday or tomorrow where we were radically honest, generous, and tender with each other."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
29. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
Want to Read $ 16.99Similar categories in Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
- poetry
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
30. Feel Free: Essays
By: Zadie Smith
3.82
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays Si… read more
Want to Read $ 4.99Similar categories in Zadie Smith's Feel Free: Essays book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
- nonfiction
- essays
"A mortifying sense of porousness."-Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays
"Faith involves an acceptance of absurdity."-Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays
"Back then, we were all still willing to take the “risk,"-Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays
"I think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it."-Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays
31. Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
By: Jesse McCarthy
4.33
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ranging from Ta-Nehisi Coates’s case for reparations to Toni Morrison’s revolutionary humanism to D… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays book and Jesse McCarthy's Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
- poetry
- art history
- race
- history
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- literary criticism
