Curator and art historian. Interested in speculative fiction, alternative forms of knowledge production relating to digital technologies, and critical feminism. Host of three reading groups.
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16% complete! Lieke has read 5 of 30 books.
From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-“final girl” horror graphic novel about a bachelor party …
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days following civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of …
For their 45th anniversary, Hank and Molly Nonnar decide to undergo an experimental rejuvenation procedure, but their hopes for youth …
Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and …
Unlike some, I didn't mind the "woo-y" stuff in this book, and I definitely learned some crucial things. However, all the diet suggestions (with hidden ads) and added anti-fat bias put me of so much I don't even know how to rate this.
Also, I couldn't stand the tone of voice of this book.
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A young father and son set out on a road trip, devastated by the death of the wife and mother …
Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global …
A highly contentious, very readable and totally up-to-the-minute investigation of women’s natural relationship with modern …
3.5
Claire Lisa Evans: Broad band (2018, Portfolio/Penguin)
"The history of technology you probably know is one of men and machines, garages and riches, alpha nerds and brogrammers. …
Current art world statistics demonstrate that the fight for gender and race equality in the …
3.5
Interesting survey of (possible) curatorial activist exhibitions in the 80s until the early noughties – mainly in the US and UK. Calling female, non-white and LGBTQ artists 'Other' felt like I was reading a book from the 90s though.
