Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
essential reading, especially if you’re a racist
Tag: contemporary non-fiction
Translation as Transhumance by Mireille Gansel
a literary memoir on translation
Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker & Julia Scheele
Keen to work out what my sexuality is but too repressed to do it using sex
Nicotine by Gregor Hens
If Gregor Hens can give up smoking, I can give up booze.
White Girls by Hilton Als
Off the booze (again), I enjoy a book but despair of life.
Home and Away by Karl Ove Knausgaard and Fredrik Ekelund
A charming, quirky, book tainted by middle aged white male bullshit.
One of Us by Åsne Seierstad
A beautiful book about a horrible thing.
Consider the Lobster And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
David bloody Foster bloody Wallace…
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
In America alone, 281 pounds of pig shit is produced for every one person per year. I don’t know if that’s a lot as I don’t know what a pound is.
Football by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Fitzcarraldo Editions is fast becoming my favourite publishing house. Simon Critchley’s Notes on Suicide was one of the best books IContinue Reading
