Annals of the Western Shore
Ursula K. Le Guin
In these three short novels, Le Guin takes us to the Western Shore, where people of magic and people of war and people of books all try to make their lives together.
What books are for
On Mitz, Words Are My Matter, A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas & The Left Hand of Darkness
Searoad
Ursula K. Le Guin
This collection of interlocking stories tells of the people who live in a small town on the Oregon coast.
Live at enmity with unreality
On A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas
Mitz
Sigrid Nunez
In the summer of 1934, Leonard and Virginia Woolf adopted a marmoset named Mitz.
Where there is a wall
On A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas
A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas
Virginia Woolf
This pair of essays from Virginia Woolf attends to women’s exclusion from educational institutions and economic independence on two fronts.
Thingness
On The Disappearance of Rituals
Psychology of craft
On The Soul’s Code & The Dream and the Underworld
Undersense
On The Dream and the Underworld & The Lost Steersman
The Empusium
Olga Tokarczuk
In 1913, a young Pole arrives at a health resort in the Silesian mountains, a place known to be free of consumption due to the still, damp air.
An imaginative activity
On The Dream and the Underworld & The Dispossessed
The Dream and the Underworld
James Hillman
“When we wrong the dream, we wrong the soul.”
We were angry
On Trauma and Recovery
Beyond credibility
On Trauma and Recovery
Trauma and Recovery
Judith Herman
Herman’s canonical work focuses on the necessity of understanding trauma within a social and political context.
Hurry-up-quick!
On The Mismeasure of Man & The Word for World Is Forest
Self-exploiting workers
On Capitalism and the Death Drive & The Burnout Society
Capitalism and the Death Drive
Byung-Chul Han
A person dies, but capital is forever.