Saving Time
Jenny Odell
“This book is my panoramic assault on nihilism.”
My Trade Is Mystery
Carl Phillips
An invitation to get lost, and to make oneself at ease in that place of mystery.
Starfish
Peter Watts
A group of people “preadapted” to danger and stress have been recruited to run a power station at the bottom of the Pacific.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
“AI presents a technological shift in the framework of society that will amplify austerity while enabling authoritarian politics.”
Elite Capture
Olúfémi O. Táíwò
A cogent argument about how the elite has coopted identity politics in order to deliver a facade of change while leaving the underlying structures of racial capitalism in place.
The Burnout Society
Byung-Chul Han
The modern day worker, argues Byung-Chul Han, is an “entrepreneur of themselves.”
Undrowned
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
“I believe in the possibility of dorsal, or stabilizing practices in our own lives.”
Strangers to Ourselves
Rachel Aviv
Strangers to Ourselves asks questions about how we name and respond to people with “unsettled” minds.
The Disappearance of Rituals
Byung-Chul Han
This compact and intense treatise argues that we are living through a crisis of community and attendant loss of ritual power.
The City and the City
China Miéville
Inspector Tyador Borlú serves on the Extreme Crime Squad in the city of Besźel.
Rest Is Resistance
Tricia Hersey
Tricia Hersey—aka “The Nap Bishop”—is here to tell us to rest, and I am ready to listen.
Ways of Being
James Bridle
Amid a drive for more “artificial” intelligence, James Bridle here asks what counts as intelligence, and then reframes fears about a future AI takeover into more productive—and present—ends.
Nona the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
In the third book of the Locked Tomb series, Nona lives with her friends Camilla, Palamedes, and Pyrrha in a cramped apartment in a tall building in a city menaced by a great hulking creature in the sky.
The Gone-Away World
Nick Harkaway
A world-ending weapon that makes its targets “go away” has, perhaps predictably, gone awry and left large parts of the world uninhabitable.
Just Culture
Stanley Dekker
Drawing from safety practices in transportation and medicine, Sidney Dekker outlines how to (and how not to) create a culture of trust, learning, and accountability.
Hokuloa Road
Elizabeth Hand
Grady Kendall is biding his time in Maine, living with his mom as the pandemic swirls around them.
Nova
Samuel R. Delany
Mouse is a young cyborg stud who plays a stolen sensory syrynx—an instrument that projects sights, smells, and sounds all at once.
Women Who Run With the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
A Jungian psychoanalyst and self-named cantadora, or keeper of stories, Clarissa Pinkola Estés here collects myths, fairy tales, fables, and many other stories old and new about the inner and outer lives of women.
The Factory
Hiroko Oyamada
Three workers reluctantly take jobs at the factory.
Craft in the Real World
Matthew Salesses
In Craft in the Real World, Matthew Salesses sets out to upend the traditional fiction writing workshop—which was established by, about, and for white male writers.