Gravity’s Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon

Pynchon’s famously difficult masterpiece. I destroyed three copies in a (failed) effort to grasp it completely.

Klein expertly and devastatingly reveals the history behind a model of capitalism that first fed on disaster, then fomented it.

Coetzee’s most important novel, sadly more relevant everyday.

A bizarre dystopia in which the elite voluntarily amputate their limbs and have them replaced with high performing machines.

An introductory collection in literary ecology, the movement that aims to do for environmentalism what gender and race studies did for civil rights.

Meeker argues that the destructive aspects of western civilization are founded on the tragic mode, while the comic mode offers a path for redemption.