My Autobiography of Carson McCullers – Jenn Shapland
MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY cracks the normative bounds of literary scholarship and shows us what kind of knowledge production is possible when the researcher drops the veneer of “scholarly objectivity” and makes herself fully present in the research process.
Selling the Farm: Descants from a Recollected Past – Debra Di Blasi
Selling the Farm does not offer an easy, glib greenness. A post-anthropocentric perspective — i.e., we need to get over ourselves — is a quixotic adventure, perhaps doomed, but a necessary leap of the imagination.
Pierrot’s Fingernails – Kit Schluter
You can take the poet out of their times, but you cannot take the timelessness out of their poetics (if they, the poet, are really any good, arguably).
Whiteout Conditions – Tariq Shah
WHITEOUT CONDITIONS is a book concerned with toxic masculinity’s erasure of the self; it’s walls and moats.
No Fascist USA! – Hilary Moore and James Tracy
Their enduring legacy may be that white supremacy never stops with the neo-Nazis, even if you choose to start fighting it there.
Becoming Horses – Disa Wallander
This is HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON for adults, a road map for anyone who makes or wants to make art.
Race After Technology – Ruha Benjamin
If racism is being “retooled,” then so too must the abolitionist imaginaries dedicated to a society and world free of carceral and police violence.
A Czech Dreambook – Ludvík Vaculík
One job for intellectuals in a crisis might be not just arguing the right point but also the art of showing one’s working.
Russo does not really argue for the entanglement of epilepsy with the person who suffers from it. WAVE ARCHIVE embodies this entanglement, and never settles into a conclusion.
Cat in the Agrahāram and Other Stories – Dilip Kumar
Kumar is a writer of proximities, a poet of the close-quartered soul, so it’s not surprising his command of atmosphere is masterful; his stories emanate a sense of the simple density of life.