i'm an activist thriving on layers and layers of affinity for shades of nuance. i have a life-long love for the Weird / Uncanny / Unheimlich.
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Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today is a book by John Holloway that looks at …
The Crying of Lot 49 is a novel written by American author Thomas Pynchon and …
Why have I waited so long to read my first Pynchon novel?
Coming from an affinity for the "new weird", his novel feels like post-modernism, yes, but with prefigurative "new weird" sprinkled all over.
The prose slips in and out of being descriptive about the world, about actual things the characters do, and then being descriptive of the meta, the feelings and intuitions, and musings that belong to nobody safe for, perhaps, the eye that watches all of it. The novel reads like interiority. I loved it.
Una ceguera blanca se expande de manera fulminante. Internados en cuarentena o perdidos por la ciudad, los ciegos deben enfrentarse …
In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of …
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome …
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, …
This is the most emotionally intense book I have ever read. The prose itself amplified the identification, the empathy, the solidarity I felt with the characters. Even though the narrator is of the "omniscient" type, the prose changes the tone, the assumed lens of the narrator as it shifts to focus on different characters. It's as though the "eye" of the reader becomes temporarily merged with each character, with their ways of seeing the world.
If someone reads & enjoys this book, I also recommend reading Pankaj Mishra's "Run and Hide".
An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a reckoning …
In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of …
Privacy matters because it shields us from possible abuses of power. Human beings need privacy just as much as they …
"The CIA is the most powerful secret police force in the world. Its hand has been seen in many incidents, …
The Nature of Tyranny was written and published at the dawn of the twentieth century by Abdul Rahman Al-Kawakibi, one …
An urgent reckoning with digital technology’s fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinnings
In a timely challenge to the potent political …
An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, …
