Asylum Piece
By: Anna Kavan
4.50
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
This collection of stories, mostly interlinked and largely autobiographical, chart the descent of t…
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1. The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates , Toni Morrison
4.20
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
America’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominat… read more
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"Harriet Beecher Stowe did not write Uncle Tom’s Cabin for Tom, Aunt Chloe, or any black people to read. Her contemporary readership was white people, those who needed, wanted, or could relish the rom…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
"One purpose of scientific racism is to identify an outsider in order to define one’s self. Another possibility is to maintain (even enjoy) one’s own difference without contempt for the categorized di…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
"It took some time for me to understand my unreasonable claims on that fisherwoman. To understand that I was longing for and missing some aspect of myself, and that there are no strangers. There are o…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
"How hard they work to define the slave as inhuman, savage, when in fact the definition of the inhuman describes overwhelmingly the punisher. When they rest, exhausted, between bouts of lashing, the p…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
2. Birds of America: Stories
By: Lorrie Moore
4.10
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
A long-awaited collection of stories--twelve in all--by one of the most exciting writers at work to… read more
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- literature
- short stories
- fiction
"I would be a genius now,"-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
"This is a political New Year's Eve,"-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
"Talent. I don't have talent. I have willingness."-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
"don’t mistake a lack of sophistication for sweetness"-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
3. At Swim-Two-Birds
By: Flann O'Brien , William H. Gass
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birdsis the story of a young, l… read more
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- literature
- fiction
4. Asylum Piece
By: Anna Kavan
4.50
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
This collection of stories, mostly interlinked and largely autobiographical, chart the descent of t… read more
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- british literature
- literature
- psychology
- mental health
- short stories
- 20th century
- fiction
5. Las muertas
By: Jorge Ibargüengoitia
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
Si al despertarse, Simon Corona se hubiera vuelto a su casa, los crimenes de Las Poquianchis habria… read more
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- fiction
6. 4.48 Psychosis
By: Sarah Kane
3.89
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
4.48 Psychosissees the ultimate narrowing of Sarah Kane's focus in her work. The struggle of the se… read more
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7. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972
By: Alejandra Pizarnik , Yvette Siegert
3.28
Format: 404 pages, ebook
Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasu… read more
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8. Paradise
By: Toni Morrison
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary… read more
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9. Faces in the Water
By: Janet Frame
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Narrated entirely from the viewpoint of a young insane woman, this novel provides a moving descript… read more
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10. Baba Yaga's Assistant
By: Emily Carroll , Marika McCoola
3.88
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
ASSISTANT WANTED ASAP Must have skills in hauling, obeying orders, cooking, and cleaning. Magical … read more
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- fiction
"Naughty children have to be protected. Even if it's just from themselves."-Emily Carroll, Baba Yaga's Assistant
11. Near to the Wild Heart
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and … read more
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- literature
- fiction
- 20th century
"What does it feel like to have a girl?"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"Words are pebbles rolling in the river"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She felt the phrase “demand her rights"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself."-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
12. El Ruletista
By: Mircea Cărtărescu , Marian Ochoa de Eribe
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Esta pieza, tan breve como intensa, narra la improbable historia de un hombre al que nunca le ha so… read more
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13. Nightwood
By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… read more
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14. Incognegro
By: Mat Johnson , Warren Pleece
4.48
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the early 20th century, when lynchings were commonplace in the American South, a few brave repor… read more
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15. The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.50
Format: None pages,
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16. La segunda venida de Hilda Bustamante
By: Salomé Esper
3.89
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Hilda Bustamante tiene 79 años y, como a todas las personas, un día le toca morir. Lo insólito es q… read more
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- fiction
"Ella pasaba su mano por cada rama, liberaba las hojas de bichos y sequedades; él, mate en mano, escuchaba cómo aquella begonia tardaba en florecer, que Carmen había comprado unas masas riquísimas cua…"-Salomé Esper, La segunda venida de Hilda Bustamante
17. Las indignas
By: Agustina Bazterrica
3.85
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
El mundo atravesó guerras por el agua y catástrofes ambientales. Los días pasan de gélidos a sofoca… read more
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- fiction
18. The Faces
By: Tove Ditlevsen
3.92
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
It's Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is becoming incr… read more
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- fiction
- 20th century
- mental health
"...and the fear came back like a faithful friend who doesn't care whether return his feelings or not."-Tove Ditlevsen, The Faces
19. Oktoberbarn
By: Linda Boström Knausgård
3.67
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
Periodvis mellan 2013 och 2017 är författaren tvångsinlagd på en psykiatrisk avdelning, där hon uts… read more
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- fiction
- psychology
- mental health
"Why do I torture myself with memories from those years? What is it that's still not resolved, over and done with? I mean, what distances haven't I traveled since then? All young people do violence to…"-Linda Boström Knausgård, Oktoberbarn
"I've always known I can write as though it were a matter of life or death. It is a matter of life or death. But life isn't meaningless when I'm not writing. The writing lives inside of me, I'm just w…"-Linda Boström Knausgård, Oktoberbarn
"I've always held myself in high esteem. No one needed to tell me I was good at writing: All I would have to do was sit down and the words would come. I knew like you knew you'd be capable of killing …"-Linda Boström Knausgård, Oktoberbarn
20. Slave Old Man
By: Patrick Chamoiseau
3.89
Format: 154 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most innovative and subversive novelists writing in French, a "writer of exceptiona… read more
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- literature
- fiction
21. Romance in Marseille (Penguin Classics)
By: Claude McKay
3.60
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and black international politics… read more
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