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Sheila Heti: Alphabetical Diaries (Hardcover, 2024, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Becca Rothfeld: All Things Are Too Small (2024, Holt & Company, Henry)
Richard Powers: Playground (2024, Norton & Company Limited, W. W.)

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Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing: The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015)
Jacques Rancière: Le temps du paysage (French language, 2020, La Fabrique)
Rachel Kushner, Rachel Kushner: Creation Lake (2024, Scribner)

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Robin Mackay, Emanuele Coccia: Metamorphoses (2021, Polity Press, Polity)
Sally Rooney: Intermezzo (Hardcover, english language, 2024, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
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Emanuele Coccia: Philosophy of the Home (2023, Penguin Books, Limited)

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reviewed Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

Sally Rooney: Beautiful World, Where Are You (Hardcover, 2021, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d …

Review of 'Beautiful World, Where Are You' on 'Goodreads'

''what if the meaning of life on earth is not eternal progress toward some unspecified goal - the engineering and production of more and more powerful technologies, the development of more and more complex and abstruse cultural forms? What if these things just rise and recede naturally, like tides, while the meaning of life remains the same always - just to live and be with other people?''

Took me an awful long time to get through the first 120 pages. Then read the last 200 in under 24hrs.
The quote pretty much sums up what's at the heart of the story. Yet it's enriched with some slight philosophical (read: aesthetical) and political commentary, and the relationships (friendship, romantic and familial) are complex enough to be possibly real and relatable in it's forms of scattered (post-) modernity.