Reading for fun, threads over the years of scifi, history, social movements and justice, farming, philosophy. I actively work to balance out the white male default in what I read, but have a long way to go.
He/they for the praxis.
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Daughter. Duhitár-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these English, Sanskrit, Armenian and Lithuanian words, all meaning …
Tracing language's past through archaeology, genetics, and linguistics, reconstructing the unlikely-seeming breadth of similarities and ecological-driven differences and additions over millennia. A well-crafted and word-loving history.
Nature, accident, emptiness, vastness collide in shattered moments, finding a letter in the stars or watching war correspondence or dancing with a sunflower bending to the light. Real growth over this collection, unsteady in the '70s and engrossed by the '90s.
Writer, filmmaker, and organizer Astra Taylor takes a curious, critical, and ultimately hopeful look at …
The thesis - that the modern state and capitalism has brought us to crisis by manufacturing and maintaining insecurity across classes - is articulately threaded with considerations of roots - in language, history, myth, and rights - of care, securitization, commons, insurance, obligation, and possibility.
Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - …
As usual for Chambers, beautiful consideration of persons and belonging in chosen family, uplifting over darker themes of outcasts and refuge.
Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of …
A superb musician's biography, beautifully researched threads of musicology, Detroit, influences and connections. I wasn't aware of J Dilla prior to reading, appreciated the tour of 90s and 00s performers I do recognize and the technical transitions in electronic music capability and performance expressed through JD's explorations and legacy. Wonderfully extensive supporting youtube playlist.
In 1900, Icelandic publisher and writer Valdimar Ásmundsson set out to translate Bram Stoker's world-famous …
Well presented translation, with significant marginal notes on story differences, Icelandic allusions, and historical context for both the translation and Stoker's original.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and “writer …
An unfolding lighthearted mystery but with heavy themes of despair and unlikable ensemble, the intentional misdirection of each preceding chapter makes for a shaky start that settles into a reliable pacing for uplifting comic humanity.
We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to …
Positive and realist, that we can maintain our progress in sustaining human-wellbeing while making the shift to ecological balance, presented in data and in evaluating what societal consumption and construction changes matter for each topic. Plenty to quibble over, some foundational, but refreshingly and necessarily post-doom.
Rosemary Kirstein’s acclaimed epic continues, as a servant of truth journeys through a world where …
Unfortunately, we have to wait to see if the series will finish. A return to the first book's themes, revealing more past steadily.
How do you find a person you have never seen, or have never heard described? …
Develops into a new dark sidequest, the series sense of anthropological curiosity and methodological study in the face of conflicting trauma and horror really shines.
Winners of the Man Booker Prize and hugely successful stage plays in London's West End …
Engaging historical drama, vicious and saucy and wry, and I still just don't care about Tudor England.
An intense, intimate and first-of-its-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, …
Even more than I was hoping for, a thoroughly humanizing personal and anthropological narrative closely following several young Hondurans over several recent years in their own experiences of migration up and down Mexico, the relentless gang violence and poverty causing them to be stateless human smugglers, the shrinking space between state enforcement and cartel consolidation for less violent less exploitative routes.
Rosemary Kirstein’s acclaimed epic continues, as a servant of truth journeys through a world where …
Jumping right in to finish the series - er find out how it doesn't yet end.
Two-hour podcast interview with the author on Tin House' Between the Covers: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar-el-akkad-one-day-everyone-will-have-always-been-against-this/
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Set amid Colorado’s wild beauty, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a resilient young …
Chance, sense of place in the mountain west, love, home front, racism, what can be washed away and what can be transplanted. Women-focused, twists around an expected plot, hard scenes of loss and violence, I'm not sure they add up to a great whole but has a fitting firmness and solidity.