James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Library of America, 1998)
james baldwin is great; vaccines are also great
Tag: politics
Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
while we seek relief in schadenfreude over self-esteem, the world will never be fixed
On Decline by Andrew Potter
I spent time yawning at an out-of-touch Gen X screed
The End of Obscenity by Charles Rembar
interesting book of the legal history of removing literary censorship
WAR #1: Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy
read some great fiction for the first time in a while; still bored bored bored tho boohoo
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART TWO)
if u see a dead racoon at the side of the road
As We Have Always Done by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
powerful academic text on the impossibility of decolonisation within capitalistic structures
Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire by Doris Lessing
the final book in Doris Lessing’s sci-fi quintet
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
very little on the book, lots of rage at the slow quietening of June’s global protest movement
the story of the lost child by elena ferrante
two and a half months ago i read an incredible novel
New Model Island by Alex Niven
england is dead and it owes u no living
Native Son by Richard Wright
surprisingly good protest novel; thoughts on UK election result
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
powerful, tho rushed, 1930s novel about fascism in the USA
The End (My Struggle Book Six) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
endings are never easy
And The Band Played On by Randy Shilts
an essential non-fiction read and a new documentary on its legacy
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
when did a white man last write a GREAT novel?
So Far From God by Veronica Gonzalez Peña
phenomenal essay on Mexican corruption
Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
Teju Cole Me By Your Name
Ossuaries by Dionne Brand
political poetry: what is it good for?
Colonel Sun by Kingsley Amis
i shouldn’t have read this, but I did
Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
essential reading, especially if you’re a racist
The Tryst by Monique Roffey
another sexy sexy sex book
Notes From No Man’s Land by Eula Biss
great essay collection… from america
Enemies of the People by Sam Jordison
Who does the bad thing?
Triumph Of The Now 