Pissing Figures 1280–2014 by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn
mostly fun book on peeing in art with a very off-colour digression
Tag: non-fiction
Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire by Max Haiven
palm oil as microcosm of the mess that is capitalism
The Experimentalists by Joe Darlington
the limits + importance of language (cw: suicide ideation)
On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky
more anarchism on the blog thank you for reading
The End: Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters by Katie Goh
great essay on the end of the world in film & lit
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings by Nellie Bly
scott reads a collection of writing from a trailblazing lady gonzo journalist!
Thriftwood: A Personal History of Scouting by Alice Wickenden
great memoir about youth and scouting
Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined by JJ Bola
an interesting introduction to progressive gender studies that every teenage lad should read!
Jarett Kobek & the Zodiac Killer (Motor Spirit & The Hunt for Zodiac)
two new books from Jarett Kobek about CRIME CRIME CRIME
Bluebeard’s Chamber by Michael Maar
i crit lit + this lit’s lit crit; MANNSLAUGHTER???
The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History by Jamie Mackay
in the middle of another canadian winter, i depressingly read about a warm, interesting, place
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Library of America, 1998)
james baldwin is great; vaccines are also great
Vagaries Malicieux by Djuna Barnes
thoughts on a 1922 essay on travel
Rhinoceros by Luke Thompson
small post on a great non-fiction text
Proustian Uncertainties by Saul Friedländer
another excellent book about marcel marcel marcel
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART THREE)
i cannot read myself happy
Four Repeater Books (two I recommend)
two excellent books, two not excellent books
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 by Doris Lessing
a perfect novella and a glorious personal essay
Three Books About Books By Bookish Lads
on ian flemming, jackie kerouac, karlo knausgaard
50 Words on Each of the Essays in Joan Didion’s Let Me Tell You What I Mean
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who we’re reading when we’re reading murakami by David Karashima
an excellent book about books
This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart by Madhur Anand
a blog about a book (yes i do still do these)
Paying the Land by Joe Sacco
not a sacco sh*it
Some Fragments of Incomplete Lockdown Blogs
Richard Wright in Franco’s Spain and other fragments
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
well, it’s a “classic” and now i’ve read it
Movements in European History by DH Lawrence
a mediocre history text then a pro-UBI, anti-“the Arts is special” rant
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
very little on the book, lots of rage at the slow quietening of June’s global protest movement
The break-up of the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe by Ghita Ionescu
like a newspaper but a book… from 1965
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
without a call to violence, this is fantasy
Boys in Zinc by Svetlana Alexievich
fell orf my bike boohoo
The Broken Spears by Miguel León-Portilla (ed.)
historical documents on colonisation of Mexico translated from Nahuatl
Dark Days by James Baldwin
the strangeness of lockdown becomes the new normal
An Underground Guide To Sewers by Stephen Halliday
great book on the history of subterranean poo tubes
New Model Island by Alex Niven
england is dead and it owes u no living
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
great early[ish] essays from one of america’s best
Sharks, Death, Surfers by Melissa McCarthy
lovely object with an essay on more than three things
Happening by Annie Ernaux
feeling sad so read a sad book on abortion
Lost Time by Józef Czapski
a touch of proust
Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievich
how recently the Nobel Prize meant something
This Little Art by Kate Briggs
a wonderful, unpretentious, essay on translation
Witchcraft by Pennethorne Hughes
a delicious 1960s Pelican about the dark arts…
And The Band Played On by Randy Shilts
an essential non-fiction read and a new documentary on its legacy
Ghosts of My Life by Mark Fisher
some over-hyped Gen Xey essays
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
an excellent essay on ethics
Limbo by Dan Fox
how limbo can you go?
Found Diary Entry from April 17th, 2010
bizarre note to self from 2010
Mixed-Race Superman by Will Harris
glorious, wonderful, contemporary non-fiction
Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
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TAZ by Hakim Bey
anarchy and pirates
So Far From God by Veronica Gonzalez Peña
phenomenal essay on Mexican corruption
Triumph Of The Now 