Matrix
Lauren Groff
Marie is seventeen and a giant of a woman, taller and broader and stronger than those around her.
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel
It’s 2203, and Olive Llewellyn has traveled from her home on the moon to earth, where she is on a book tour.
The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
Late one night, at a luxury hotel reachable only by boat, someone scrawls Why don’t you swallow broken glass on a huge picture window.
Spear
Nicola Griffith
An unnamed girl lives in a cave with her mother, in a wild wood warded against danger and those who would seek them out.
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers
In a series of interviews that took place in the years 1985 and 1986, journalist Bill Moyers spoke with the famous scholar and teacher of mythology, Joseph Campbell.
Disambiguation
On holding space for ambiguity.
The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed
Laurence Davis & Peter Stillman
In this collection of essays, a group of scholars consider Le Guin’s The Dispossessed in light of it’s utopian, anarchist, temporal, and revolutionary politics.
The Nightlife
Elise Paschen
In this collection are infidelities and funerals, umbrellas hurtled by the wind, landmines hidden in sand, and tightly wound rhymes that hint of a spirit coiled, waiting in the dark.
Babel-17
Samuel R. Delaney
Rydra Wong is a poet, a captain, an erstwhile cryptographer, and a burgeoning telepath.
Laziness Does Not Exist
Devon Price
In this well-argued polemic, Devon Price outlines three tenets of what they term the “laziness lie”: that your worth is your productivity, that you cannot trust your own feelings and limits, and that there is always more you should be doing.
Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
Jake Skeets
In Drift(er), Jake Skeets addresses the Richard Avedon photo that adorns the book’s cover: “to drift is to be carried by a current of air or water / but men are not the teeth / of their verbs.”
False narratives
On An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
“This is a history of the United States.”
Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods
Tishani Doshi
In the opening poem in this collection, Tishani Doshi addresses her reader: “I agree to turn my skin inside out, / to reinvent every lost word, to burnish, / to steal, to do what I must / in order to singe your lungs.”
Black Sun
Rebecca Roanhorse
On the solstice, in the city of Tova, there will be a convergence—a total eclipse of the sun.
The Sentence
Louise Erdrich
Tookie works in a bookstore, and Flora—her most annoying, and most loyal, customer—has just died. This does not mean she has left the bookstore.
The Dawn of Everything
David Graeber & David Wengrow
Some books seek to simplify or clarify the past; this one seeks to complicate it.
Becoming naturalized
On Braiding Sweetgrass
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Each essay in this collection is a a full-throated declaration of a democracy of species—with humans as the minority voice.
Echopraxia
Peter Watts
Daniel Brüks is a baseline: a human with few enhancements, no cortical inlays, no way to blink and see subtitles in his vision.