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Slaughterhouse-Five, also known as The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a science fiction …
On to #18 on the Modern Library list. I read this book many years ago, but I made a mistake and I read it and Catch 22 back to back, which is a bad idea. Almost as bad an idea as when I watched Donnie Darko and Requiem for a Dream on the same weekend.
A practical translation of the principles of attachment theory to non-monogamous relationships.
Attachment theory …
I learned a few things here, it made me think a bit. I’m also glad the book directly addresses attachment theory as explicitly not an identity model.
A practical translation of the principles of attachment theory to non-monogamous relationships.
Attachment theory …
Maybe I’ll figure out what everyone younger than 35 means when they get very upset about attachment styles.
Anarchism intensified, in actuality
Communism intensifies
A landmark of trans and feminist nonfiction, Whipping Girl is Julia Serano’s indispensable account of …
The first half of this book is a great overview of most of the basic questions about trans identity. The second half is a bit spottier—I think a lot of my grievance stems from a misread of, or engaging with those who misread, Butler. As someone desperately hoping to break the discursive cycles around trans identity, I’m not sure the book helps this, despite clearly trying to. It gives me a lot to think about.
A landmark of trans and feminist nonfiction, Whipping Girl is Julia Serano’s indispensable account of …
More transgender theory!
I did not expect this book to be a GPS guides missile aimed directly at me, an American expat in Europe going through mid-life crisis, but it is, and maybe that’s why my first thought is that it’s a masterpiece. But that would be unfair to some of the prose, which is sublime.
Up to #28 on the Modern Library list. I am looking forward to the break from English novelists.
Two activist journalists present a progressive, intersectional approach to the vital question: What can we do about antisemitism?
Antisemitism …
Two activist journalists present a progressive, intersectional approach to the vital question: What can we …
That was a really essential and validating read. I’m grateful that it is informative, constructive and critical.
Two activist journalists present a progressive, intersectional approach to the vital question: What can we …
I’ve been excited for this book (which I did a tiny tiny amount of fact checking for) and have a nice long flight to read it.
I feel as though I have climbed a mountain, but the mountain outside my town, that most of my friends have already also climbed.
Howards End is a novel by E. M. Forster about social conventions, codes of conduct …
#38 on the Modern Library list, read during my flights. I’m not sure I would have rated it so highly, as its motions seem right but lacks a certain complexity. It’s a story about the inescapability of class, but there are better ones I think.
Howards End is a novel by E. M. Forster about social conventions, codes of conduct …
Onto #38 on the Modern Library list, I’m excited for what should be another exploration of class and inequality.