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Showing posts with label essays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label essays. Show all posts
Saturday, August 29, 2026

THE CULTURE OF LIES, last collection of essays I have of Dubravka Ugrešić's to review

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THE CULTURE OF LIES DUBRAVKA UGREŠIĆ (tr. Celia Hawkesworth) Open Letter Books ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $9.95 ebook, avail...
Friday, July 24, 2026

LIVING, TOGETHER: Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection, exactly what it says on the label

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LIVING, TOGETHER: Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection SAMANTHA PAIGE ROSEN (editor) Beacon Press ( non-affiliate Booksh...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

REBELS AND OUTLIERS: Real Stories of the American West, collected essays with more ideas than words

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REBELS AND OUTLIERS: Real Stories of the American West JOHN M. GLIONNA University of Nevada Press ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) ...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

BAD INDIANS BOOK CLUB: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds, taking back control of the narrative never went down easier

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BAD INDIANS BOOK CLUB: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds PATTY KRAWEC (foreword by Omar El Akkad) Broadleaf Books ( non-affilia...
Friday, February 28, 2025

A SHORT HISTORY OF BLACK CRAFT IN TEN OBJECTS, beautiful gift object as well as solid primer on crafts-as-art

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A SHORT HISTORY OF BLACK CRAFT IN TEN OBJECTS ROBELL AWAKE (illus. Johnalynn Holland; afterword by Tiffany Momon) Princeton Architectur...
Monday, September 16, 2024

A MUZZLE FOR WITCHES, probably the last time we'll get to hear from a feminist ikon

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A MUZZLE FOR WITCHES DUBRAVKA UGREŠIĆ (tr. Ellen Elias-Bursać) Open Letter Books $14.95 trade paper, available tomorrow August 2025:...
Saturday, September 30, 2023

THE AGE OF SKIN: Essays by the late thinker/cultural critic Dubravka Ugrešić

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THE AGE OF SKIN: Essays DUBRAVKA UGREŠIĆ (tr. Ellen Elias-Bursać.) Open Letter Books August 2025: 40% discount on all Open...
Monday, September 25, 2023

BAYARD RUSTIN: A Legacy of Protest and Politics surveys a life lived in resistance, & LOST PROPHET: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin, biography of his gayness

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BAYARD RUSTIN: A Legacy of Protest and Politics MICHAEL G. LONG (editor) NYU Press $27.95 harcover, available tomorrow Rating: 3.5* ...
Monday, June 12, 2023

UNCLE OF THE YEAR & Other Debatable Triumphs, famous gay actor writes vignettes a la Sedaris...and succeeds at it!

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UNCLE OF THE YEAR & Other Debatable Triumphs ANDREW RANNELLS Crown Books $28.00 hardcover, available now Rating: 4* of five The...
Friday, August 27, 2021

THE BOOK OF ERRORS will delight and enlighten some, bewilder and befuddle others

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THE BOOK OF ERRORS ANNIE COGGAN (art) and MARK HAGE (text) A Public Space Books $18.00 trade paper, available now Rating: 4* of five ...
Monday, December 28, 2020

2020...GAWD it stank! Here are some reads to remind us what's at stake in 2021

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MILL TOWN: Reckoning with What Remains KERRI ARSENAULT St. Martin's Press $27.99 hardcover, available now Rating: The Full Five ...
Sunday, December 27, 2020

2020...the year the world stopped for a minute

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THE DARK FANTASTIC: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games EBONY ELIZABETH THOMAS NYU Press $16.95 trade paper...
Wednesday, November 4, 2020

HOW TO MAKE A SLAVE and Other Essays, a finalist for a National Book Award

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HOW TO MAKE A SLAVE and Other Essays JERALD WALKER Mad Creek Books $19.95 paperback or ebook editions, available now Rating: 4* of fiv...
Saturday, March 25, 2017

CLOSING THE BOOK, essays proving the urgency of women being at the cultural table

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CLOSING THE BOOK: Travels in Life, Loss, and Literature JOELLE RENSTROM Pelekinesis $20 trade paper, available now Rating: 4.5* of fi...