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• The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays

  Acocella, Joan Ross

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  Joan Acocella was "one of our finest cultural critics" (Edward Hirsch), and she had the rare ability to examine literature and unearth the lives contained within it-its authors, its subjects, and the communities from which it springs. In…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ghostroots

  Stories

  Aguda, 'Pemi

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  A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom.

• I Finally Bought Some Jordans

  Essays

  Arceneaux, Michael

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  In this collection, Arceneaux takes stock of how far he has traveled--and how much ground he still has to cover in this patriarchal, heteronormative society. He explores the opportunities afforded to Black creatives but also the doors that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• With Every Great Breath

  New and Selected Essays, 1995-2023

  Bass, Rick, 1958-

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  For acclaimed writer and environmental activist Rick Bass, it can be wearying to dwell relentlessly upon the broken, the fragmented, the dead and dying and doomed to extinction. Activism is a necessary part of the environmental movement,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Green Frog

  Stories

  Chung, Gina, 1989-

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  Equal parts fantastical - a pair of talking dolls help twins escape a stifling home, a heart boils on the stove as part of an elaborate cure for melancholy - and true to life - a mother and daughter try to heal their rift when the daughter…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Traveling Without Moving

  Essays From a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America

  Coleman, Taiyon (Taiyon Jeanette)

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  A Black woman in America is always on the run, desperate to survive, thrive, and finally find freedom. Using a powerful blend of perspectives that move between a first-person lens of lived experience and a wider-ranging critique of U.S.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• First Love

  Essays on Friendship

  Dancyger, Lilly

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  When Lilly Dancyger was twenty-three years old, her best friend and cousin, Sabina, was violently raped and murdered. In the face of devastating loss, Dancyger stayed sane and whole by the magic and the medicine of her female friends. Each…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beneath the Surface of Things

  New and Selected Essays

  Davis, Wade

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  The essays in this collection came about during the unhurried months when one who had traveled incessantly was obliged to stay still, even as events flared on all sides in a world that never stops moving. Wade Davis brings his unique…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dinner on Monster Island

  Essays

  De Rozario, Tania

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  In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lamba Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore, blending memoir with elements of history, pop culture,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Any Person Is the Only Self

  Essays

  Gabbert, Elisa

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  Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory.

• The Book of (more) Delights

  Gay, Ross, 1974-

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  In these short lyrical essayettes -- a follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The Book of Delights -- the award-winning author continues his celebration of the everyday delights, inspiring us at this exact moment when we all need a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Thunder Song

  Essays

  LaPointe, Sasha taqwšeblu

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  Drawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I've Tried Being Nice

  Essays

  Leary, Ann

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  Having arrived at a certain age (her prime), Ann Leary casts a wry backward glance at a life spent trying--and often failing--to be nice. With wit and surprising candor, Leary recounts the bedlam of home bat invasions, an obsession with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Last Supper of Queer Apostles

  Selected Essays

  Lemebel, Pedro

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  A galvanizing look at life on the margins of society by a crowning figure of Latin America's queer counterculture who celebrated "melodrama, kitsch, extravagance, and vulgarity of all kinds" (Garth Greenwell) in playful, performative,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Age of Loneliness

  Essays

  Marris, Laura, 1987-

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  In this debut essay collection, Laura Marris reframes environmental degradation by setting aside the conventional, catastrophic framework of the Anthropocene in favor of that of the Eremocene, the age of loneliness, marked by the dramatic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Like Love

  Essays and Conversations

  Nelson, Maggie, 1973-

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  A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists. Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Neighbors and Other Stories

  Oliver, Diane, 1943-1966

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  A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature. A…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No Judgment

  Essays

  Oyler, Lauren

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  In her writing for Harper's, the London Review of Books, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, Lauren Oyler has emerged as one of the most trenchant and influential critics of her generation, a talent whose judgments on works of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Just Keep Talking

  a Life in Essays

  Painter, Nell Irvin

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  Throughout her prolific writing career, Nell Painter has published works on such luminaries as Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Malcolm X. Her unique vantage on American history pushes the boundaries of personal narrative and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Things Are Too Small

  Essays in Praise of Excess

  Rothfeld, Becca

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  A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent. In her debut essay collection, "brilliant…Read moreRead more of this annotation