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The Power of Words to Save Us by Marie Howe
Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village” by Teju Cole
Forgiveness by Michael Kinnukan
I Know What You Think of Me by Tim Kreider
I Used To Insist I Didn’t Get Angry—Not Anymore by Leslie Jamison
Could Your Stuff Be Haunted? Ghostbusting the Creepiest Antiques by Lisa Hix
Head to head—Does every creative genius need a bitter rival? by Jacob Burak
The Meeting in a Dream by Jorge Luis Borges
To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This by Mandy Len Catron
Poor People Deserve To Taste Something Other Than Shame by Iljeoma Oluo
An Interview With Poet Ada Limón by Compose Journal
Queer Oppression is Etched in the Heart of Capitalism by Tatiana Cozzarelli
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Real Tragedy of Beth March by Carmen Maria Machado
The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
The Siren Song by Nina McLaughlin
Out There: On Not Finishing by Devin Kelly
Panic is Worse Than Pain: How Fiction Failed Me After Trauma by Jenn Ashworth
Is It Harder to Write About Happiness Than Its Opposite? by Leslie Jamison and Adam Kirsch
The Triggering Town by Richard Hugo
The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action by Audre Lorde
To Speak Is to Blunder by Yiyun Li
The Ability to Cry by Yiyun Li
What the caves are trying to tell us by Sam Kriss
Music Heals: Julien Baker on Addiction and Finding Your Place in the World by KEXP and Julien Baker
Rule of Rose: The Lonely Princess by Overanalyses
Ada Limón and Natalie Diaz Discuss “Envelopes of Air” with Kevin Young
Teenage Pricks by Alex Pareene
Why Misogynists Make Great Informants by Courtney Desiree Morris
The Xenomorph and the Perversion of Sex in “Alien” by Derek Jacobs
A Socialist, Feminist, and Transgender Analysis of “Sex Work” by Proletarian Feminist
The rise of Indigenous horror: How a fiction genre is confronting a monstrous reality by Alicia Elliott
Teaching Wordsworth amid Gaza’s trauma by Ahmed Nehad
I learned how to ride a bike in Sheikh Jarrah by Abdallah Fayyad
Book Excerpt: Gender Is More Than Performance by Julia Serano
Poetry is Not the Final Girl: Ed Steck by Trisha Low
Time Loop Narratives Are About Love by katy on Substack
In defense of 2000s horror, an age of torture, tank tops, and Wikipedia by Alison Foreman
Carmen Maria Machado’s “Her Body and Other Parties” Review by Nicole Flattery
How Words Fail by Cathy Park Hong
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
Of Strangeness That Wakes Us by Ilya Kaminsky
Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism by Paula Gunn Allen
Interpretation of Dreams by Paromita Vohra
The true extent of global poverty and hunger: Questioning the good news narrative of the Millenium Development Goals by Jason Hickel
Neoliberalism—the ideology at the root of all our problems by George Monbiot
Love’s contradictions: Catallus on the agony of infatuation by Armand D’Angour
Curating the Anthropocene by Jon Christensen
Prince Was Our Bard of One-Night Stands, and “Little Red Corvette” Was His Masterpiece by Jack Hamilton
Studies in the Psychology of Touch by F.B. Dresslar
The Ethical Use of Touch in Psychotherapy by Mic Hunter and Jim Struve
Who’s There?: Every Story is a Ghost Story by Ed Simon
The Average Fourth Grader Is a Better Poet Than You (and Me Too) by Hannah Gamble
Why do we love to pathologise normal behaviour online? by James Greig
To Be Young, Gory and Black: A Black Horror Lover's Manifesto by Yah Yah Scholfield
Ghost in the machine: inside the internet’s paranormal history by Biju Belinky
What You Don’t Know About Family Estrangement by Anne Helen Petersen
The cruelties of self-help culture by Richard Seymour
Don’t Tell Me to Despair About the Climate: Hope Is a Right We Must Protect by Morgan Florsheim
Why we need to stop excluding Black populations from ideas of who is “Indigenous” by Hari Ziyad
it takes what it takes by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Evoking the Hare by Hannah Richter
cultish communism: fictitious universes, the imaginary and digital by The Lavender Menace
on the intimacy of the mundane by eve lionhart
Silence and fecundity in Carmen Maria Machado’s “Her body and other parties” by Katarzyna Więckowska
Ugly, Bitter, and True by Suzanne Rivecca
The staggering, exhausting, invisible costs of caring for America’s elderly by Anne Helen Petersen
Against Access by John Lee Clark
Black Is Traditional: The Post-Racial Potential of the Other World in 'Coraline' by Louisa Maycock
Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women by Anne Helen Petersen
On Hating Men (And Becoming One Anyway) by Noah Zazanis
Crush by Larissa Pham
Rule of Rose and the Tidiness of Unreality by Ian Bryce Jones
The War Nerd: Amateurs Talk Cancel, Pros Talk Silence by Gary Brecher
"THIS IS NOT FOR YOU": NIHILISM AND THE HOUSE THAT JACQUES BUILT by Will Slocombe
Haunted House—An Interview with Mark Z. Danielewski
A House is Not a Home by L. Chan
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to His Abusive and Narcissistic Father by Maria Popova
The Marriage Debate
Let’s Play Dead by Senaa Ahmad
You’re Wrong About Misericorde by Edonohana
Against Character Vapor by Brandon Taylor
Let Us Consider The Mountain Goats by Emma Stanford
Humbert Humbert and the Kids These Days: On Teaching Lolita in a High School Classroom by Benjamin Seigle
Silent Treatment: The troubling response to a memoir of incest by Amia Srinivasan
Why all “eat the rich” satire looks the same now by Patrick Sproull
On Invisible Beauty by Ayşegül Savaş
Who Was Barbie? A Symposium
Rachel Corrie’s Emails from the Rachel Corrie Foundation
Discursive Killings: Intertextuality, Aestheticization, and Death in Nabokov’s Lolita by Philipp Schweighauser
Blunt-Force Ethnic Credibility by Som-Mai Nguyen
The Case Against the Trauma Plot by Parul Sehgal
Is Transmisogyny Killing Trans Women of Color? by Elias Cosenza Krell
The Voice Notes Poet Refaat Alareer Sent Before His Death by Yasmeen Serhan
In Memory of Nicole Brown Simpson by Andrea Dworkin
How To Watch A Movie by Charlie Squire
What Is an Anti-Racist Reading List For? by Lauren Michele Jackson
Black authors are on all the bestseller lists right now. But publishing doesn’t pay them enough by Constance Grady
Lana Bastašić’s blazing response to yet another act of literary censorship by Dan Sheehan
In the heart of the Old City, generations of Afro-Palestinians persevere in the face of occupation by Mousa Qous
The Banality of Empathy by Namwali Serpell
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism and Transformation [Transcript]
Most of My Friends Are Two-Thirds Water by Kelly Link
The word-hoard: Robert Macfarlane on rewilding our language of landscape
Opening Theory by Sally Rooney
The ABCs of Capitalism
Liberalism, ultraleftism or mass action by Peter Camejo
Why Ugliness Is Vital in the Age of Social Media - Mia Mingus interviewed by Alok
A Brief History and Ethos of the Digital Garden by Maggie Appleton
The Dark Forest and Generative AI by Maggie Appleton
What is Yuri? by Emily Suvannasankha in Tofugu
When does admiration become lust? by Azeez in Substack
FF7 Rebirth Does Not Expand On The Original’s Scope, But Shrinks It In Safe Nostalgia [...] Betraying Remake’s Ambition by Dreamboum
All Good Sex is Body Horror by Becca Rothfeld
Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas by Luke Barrat
Orphan of Kos by Ashley Bardhan
The Combahee River Collective Statement (1977)
The Novelist Who Inspired Elena Ferrante by Jess Bergman
¡Suéltame! by Elisa Luna Andy
Blueprints for St. Louis by Ben Marcus
Chemistry Read by Lisa Owens
SMOTE, OR WHEN I FIND I CANNOT KISS YOU IN FRONT OF A PRINT BY BRIDGET RILEY by Eley Williams
Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference by Olúfémi O. Táíwò
This Brand is Late Capitalism by Rachel Connolly
Even if you beat me by Sally Rooney
Unethical Reading and the Limits of Empathy - Namwali Serpell and Maria Tumarkin
A Laboratory of Politics: Part VI by Steven Attewell
Black Humor by Paul Beatty
Like This or Die by Christian Lorentzen
Intelligence Under Racial Capitalism: From Eugenics to Standardized Testing and Online Learning by Yarden Katz
USAID: The humanitarian face of colonial exploitation by Amanda Yee
Against Parental Rights by Samantha Godwin
Playing by Carolyn Ten Eyc
Information Overload: Claire Bishop on the superabundance of research-based art by Claire Bishop
The Door’s Still Locked: Fiction After Fascism by Kaitlan Bui
Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction by Zadie Smith

reading log

start: 2020 - non-comprehensive