Down Girl
Kate Manne
Kate Manne’s core premise is this: sexism is a set of beliefs that positions women as inferior to men, while misogyny is the system that enforces and polices women’s subordination.
The Book of Lamps and Banners
Elizabeth Hand
Cass Neary needs to get home, but a string of suspicious deaths has accumulated behind her, and she isn’t sure where is safe.
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
“I was in a house with many rooms. The sea sweeps through the house. Sometimes it swept over me, but always I was saved.”
The case for rereading
What thoughts are you thinking with?
Staying with the Trouble
Donna Haraway
“Staying with the trouble does not require such a relationship to times called the future,” declares Donna Haraway in the opening paragraph of this astonishing book.
Misfits
On What Can a Body Do?
What Can a Body Do?
Sara Hendren
Among the core premises of this provocative and deeply humane book is this: disability is in part a product of the intersection of a body and the built world, where the latter often presumes there is only one way a body can be.
Alone
Richard E. Byrd
In 1934, Richard Byrd—famous for a previous expedition to the Antarctic—decided to over winter on the ice near the South Pole, alone.
Vesper Flights
Helen Macdonald
The titular essay in this collection concerns the flight of swifts: twice a day, at twilight, they fly high up into the sky, a movement Macdonald describes as both a devotion and a kind of planning.
The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa
Objects are disappearing: not the things themselves, although that is soon to follow, but the memory of them, the recognition and understanding of what they are and have been.
Harrow the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
In this sequel to the completely badass Gideon the Ninth, Harrow has become an immortal lyctor by consuming Gideon’s soul. Or has she?
The Invincible
Stanisław Lem
Arriving on a distant planet in search of a sister ship that has disappeared, the crew of The Invincible discover a new form of life: tiny, autonomous robots that seem to have evolved into expert killing machines.
Radical work
On Beyond Survival
You were supposed to give me salvation
On Beyond Survival
Beyond Survival
Ejeris Dixon & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Featuring essays and interviews from grassroots activists and practitioners of transformative justice, this collection offers clear, practical, and brave advice about how to respond to violence and crises in your community.
Terra Nullius
Claire G. Coleman
In Australia, a young boy escapes from the settler-run school where he and other children are trained for a life of enslavement.
An urgent job to be done
On Memoir of a Race Traitor
Expendable
On Memoir of a Race Traitor
Memoir of a Race Traitor
Mab Segrest
“I have written this treatise on the souls of white folks with an urgency that it be exemplary, a template into which white readers can read themselves,” begins Mab Segrest, in this rare and fearless book.