Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude
By: Adriana Cavarero
4.02
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
In this new and accessible book, Italy's best known feminist philosopher examines the moral and pol…
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1. To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
3.80
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more
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"I have had my vision."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
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"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
2. On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays (Studies in Feminist Philosophy)
By: Iris Marion Young
4.16
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Written over a span of more than two decades, the essays by Iris Marion Young collected in this vol… read more
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"Nostalgic longing is always for an elsewhere. Remembrance is the affirmation of what brought us here."-Iris Marion Young, On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays (Studies in Feminist Philosophy)
"Thus the activity of preservation should be distinguished from the nostalgia accompanying fantasies of a lost home from which the subject is separated and to which he seeks to return. Preservation en…"-Iris Marion Young, On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays (Studies in Feminist Philosophy)
"The first movements of the fetus produce this sense of the splitting subject; the fetus's movements are wholly mine, completely within me, condition my experience and space. Only I have access to the…"-Iris Marion Young, On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays (Studies in Feminist Philosophy)
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3. Fever Dream
By: Samanta Schweblin , Megan McDowell , Ruth Sepp
3.72
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream… A young woman named Amanda lies dyin… read more
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"There’s only so much searching you can do, either a horse is there or it’s not."-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream
"I’m just tired, that’s what I tell myself, and sometimes I’m afraid when I think that everyday problems might be a little more terrible for me than for other people."-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream
"But I’m going to die in a few hours. That’s going to happen, isn’t it? It’s strange how calm I am. Because even though you haven’t told me, I know. And still, it’s an impossible thing to tell yoursel…"-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream
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4. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
By: James Agee , Walker Evans
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignment for "Fortune" magazine to explore the d… read more
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5. Tres
By: Roberto Bolaño , Laura Healy
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
Bolano's own preferred literary persona was as a poet. When asked, "What makes you believe you're a… read more
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7. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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8. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
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9. I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
By: Angela Y. Davis , Maryse Condé , Richard Philcox
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
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10. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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11. The Unknown Masterpiece
By: Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painte… read more
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12. 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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13. By Night in Chile
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.89
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more
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14. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.58
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Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more
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15. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
By: Judith Butler
3.81
Format: None pages,
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16. 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
By: Jonathan Crary
4.39
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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17. Elements of the Philosophy of Right
By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Allen W. Wood , Raymond Geuss
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
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18. The Passion According to G.H.
By: Clarice Lispector , None
4.13
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in … read more
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"I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
19. Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
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"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
20. Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories
By: None
3.84
Format: None pages, Paperback
Time Bindsis a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the … read more
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21. Purgatory
By: Raúl Zurita , None
3.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Raul Zurita's "Purgatory, " a landmark in contemporary Latin American poetry, records the physical,… read more
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22. 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
23. Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
By: Irene Solà
3.91
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Escondida entre riscos lejanos, en algún remoto lugar de las Guillerías transitado por cazadores de… read more
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"Aunque lo peor de todo, musitó, no es morirse. Todos nos tenemos que morir un día u otro. Lo peor es la soledad."-Irene Solà, Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
24. Ofert a les mans, el paradís crema
By: Pol Guasch
4.14
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Efervescència i una novel·la sobre l’amistat en un món abocat al col·lapse. La Rita viu a la Co… read more
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25. Canto yo y la montaña baila
By: Irene Solà
4.24
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Primero llegan la tormenta y el rayo y la muerte de Domènec, el campesino poeta. Luego, Dolceta, qu… read more
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"La eternidad, cosa ligera. Cosa diaria, cosa pequeña."-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"Em diu coses boniques que no entenc però sí que entenc"-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
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"S'hi està bé aquí sota. S'hi està bé, en aquest bosc. En aquest tros de terra. En aquest tros de món."-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
26. Trilogía
By: Jon Fosse
3.90
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Trilogía es un libro diferente. Es hipnótico. Para Jon Fosse escribir es como rezar y, para el lect… read more
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27. Un amor
By: Sara Mesa
3.58
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La historia de Un amor ocurre en La Escapa, un pequeño núcleo rural donde Nat, una joven e inexpert… read more
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28. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
By: Amia Srinivasan
4.25
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more
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"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
29. I And My Chimney
By: Herman Melville
3.15
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
In those houses which are strictly double houses--that is, where the hall is in the middle--the fir… read more
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30. El intruso
By: Jean-Luc Nancy
4.14
Format: 51 pages, Paperback
"El intruso no es otro que yo mismo y el hombre mismo. No otro que el mismo que no termina de alter… read more
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31. Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude
By: Adriana Cavarero
4.02
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
In this new and accessible book, Italy's best known feminist philosopher examines the moral and pol… read more
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