pickI finished this a few days ago. It's an outstanding, informative, and painful read. Nothing before has quite equipped me with the vocabulary necessary to speak against racist ideologies and racist systems as this book. Please read it.
If there's one author who's always worth rereading...
Started reading this yesterday morning. Already dying.
Finished my first Zadie Smith novel, which was the kindest gift I could have given myself this year. It's also both startling and depressing how relevant White Teeth is today, nearly 17 years after its publication.
This is really, really good. Plucking a string of Anne Carson and a string of Clarice Lispector for a very strange, very memorable, chord about grief.
I think I've read more Sontag in 2015/2016 than any other individual author. It rarely matters what she decides to write about: she sees it differently.
I finished this earlier today. I can't remember who told me to read this lesser-known Heller novel, or where I read about its existence, but I'm so grateful to have found it. It's one of the saddest, funniest, and most alienating books I've read. There's nothing I can really say to describe it, other than it's like looking at your own life if your life was behind the bars of a cage or splayed out on a laboratory table. In a good (scary) (sad) way.
Started reading this today and am absolutely into it.
I don't know why I've owned this for a year without reading it.
"By demonstrating that they would not recoil from a civilian holocaust, the Americans triggered in the minds of the enemy the information explosion which Einstein, towards the end of his life, thought to be as formidable as the atomic blast itself."
