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Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson
How do we give old words new voices? What must a translator lose - and what might she gain - …
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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
4 stars
The New York Times bestseller and “horror masterpiece” (NPR) from Stephen Graham Jones—the master of modern horror—is a chilling historical …
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Do What You Fear Most by Richie Unterberger
"Of all the books I have read on the story of the Velvet Underground, Richie's is probably the best. He …
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Philosophy of Writing by David Arndt
Why write? Why care about writing well?
Most philosophers have seen writing as inferior to speech as a way …
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The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
The Man Without Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften; 1930–1943) is an unfinished modernist novel in three volumes and various …
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The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
5 stars
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down …
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Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season by John Gregory Dunne
“In the summer of my nervous breakdown, I went to live in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada.” So begins John …
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The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy by Jonathan Webber
In the aftermath of the Second World War, a group of intellectuals gathered to discuss urgent questions of existence, commitment, …
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Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
4 stars
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (French: Surveiller et punir : Naissance de la prison) is a 1975 …
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A Genocide Foretold by Chris Hedges
A Genocide Foretold confronts the stark realities of life under siege in Gaza and the heroic effort ordinary Palestinians are …
