On Contemporary Art (ekphrasis)
By: César Aira
3.89
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Translated into English for the first time, On Contemporary Art, a speech by the renowned novelist …
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1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
2. Of Love and Other Demons
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.96
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria, the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-c… read more
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"<>, dijo."-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
"Do not allow me to forget you"-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
"Vivo espantado de estar vivo."-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
"Ideas do not belong to anyone,"-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
3. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
4. 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
5. Ways of Seeing
By: John Berger
3.24
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
John Berger's Classic Text on Art John Berger's Ways of Seeingis one of the most stimulating and th… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- essays
6. Love Poems
By: Pablo Neruda , None
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda's love poems are the most celebrated of the Nobel… read more
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7. Ways of Curating
By: Hans Ulrich Obrist
3.37
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hans Ulrich Obrist curated his first exhibit in his kitchen when he was twenty-three years old. Sin… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
8. My Brilliant Friend (L'amica geniale #1)
By: Elena Ferrante
3.00
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, int… read more
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9. Humiliation
By: Wayne Koestenbaum
4.00
Format: None pages,
Wayne Koestenbaum considers the meaning of humiliation in this eloquent work of cultural critique a… read more
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10. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane
3.64
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more
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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
11. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
By: Judith Butler
3.81
Format: None pages,
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more
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12. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucidawas first published in 1979. Commenting on artists s… read more
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13. Letters from a Stoic
By: Seneca , Robin Campbell
4.75
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
The power and wealth which Seneca the Younger (c.4 B.C. - A.D. 65) acquired as Nero's minister were… read more
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14. 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
15. A Man's Place
By: Annie Ernaux
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more
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"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
16. The Young Man
By: Annie Ernaux
3.61
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more
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- nonfiction
17. 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
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"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
18. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.87
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more
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"I would like to belong but I dont."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
19. Let Me Tell You What I Mean
By: Joan Didion
3.84
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces t… read more
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- essays
"Superstition prevails, fear that the fragile unfinished something will shatter, vanish, revert to the nothing from which it was made."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"In short I had no past, and, every Monday-Wednesday-Friday at noon in Dwinelle Hall, it seemed increasingly clear to me that I had no future."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or so I thought, another story."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"Well, there it was. I got out fast then, before anyone could say "serenity" again, for it is a word I associate with death, and for several days after that meeting I wanted only to be in places where…"-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
20. An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
By: Clarice Lispector
4.27
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
What to make of a writer who follows the metaphysical heights of her great Passion According to GH … read more
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"Ah "persona", como não te usar e ser!"-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
"Oh God! Having just one life was so little."-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
"Meu mistério é simples: eu não sei como estar viva."-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
"E digo: eu está apaixonada pelo teu eu. Então nós é."-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
21. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
By: Lorrie Moore
3.31
Format: 193 pages, Hardcover
Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and… read more
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"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
22. Paradais
By: Fernanda Melchor
3.64
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, l… read more
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"It was fatboy's fault, that's what he would tell them"-Fernanda Melchor, Paradais
23. My Year of Rest and Relaxation
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.63
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman’s efforts… read more
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"What next? I couldn't imagine."-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
"I wasn't an insomniac, but I was miserable."-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
"Life was repetitive, resonated at a low hum."-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
"I just wanted to sleep all the time. I had a plan."-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
24. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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- nonfiction
"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
25. 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
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26. Florida
By: Lauren Groff
3.77
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida—its lan… read more
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"All things nauseating and deadly are American, apparently. Well, okay, she can't disagree."-Lauren Groff, Florida
"She's a novelist, which is tantamount to being a one woman card catalogue for useless knowledge."-Lauren Groff, Florida
"Of all the places in the world, she belongs in Florida. How dispiriting to learn this of herself."-Lauren Groff, Florida
"She is exhausting to everyone. She would take a break from herself, too, but she doesn't have that option."-Lauren Groff, Florida
27. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
By: Olivia Laing
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in th… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- essays
"Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you."-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around s…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"Fiction can do that: can make a space for reflecting, for generating novel ways of responding and reacting to lies and guns and walls alike. The mere act of cracking open a book, Smith thinks, is cre…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"These narratives are interesting in and of themselves, but Nelson isn’t just airing her feelings out. She’s bent on using these experiences as ways of prying the culture open, of investigating what i…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
28. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts
By: Paul B. Preciado
4.26
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco… read more
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- essays
29. The Possession
By: Annie Ernaux
3.75
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can … read more
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"The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city, the whole world, with a person you have never met."-Annie Ernaux, The Possession
"Writing has been a way to save that which is no longer my reality – a sensation seizing me from head to foot, in the streets – but has become ''the possession,'’ a period of time, circumscribed and c…"-Annie Ernaux, The Possession
30. 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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- nonfiction
- essays
31. On Contemporary Art (ekphrasis)
By: César Aira
3.89
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Translated into English for the first time, On Contemporary Art, a speech by the renowned novelist … read more
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