Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2015 essay Between the World and Me is a great contemporary read to follow James Baldwin's essays. Coates picks up...
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- Dec 18, 2020
- 3 min
James Baldwin - Essays
I had a wonderful week: I spent it with James Baldwin's essays in The Fire Next Time and Notes of a Native Son. I first fell in love with...
- Dec 10, 2020
- 2 min
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
“The only people for me are the mad one, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same...
- Nov 26, 2020
- 2 min
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
Everyone, please stop whatever you are doing and go read Jamaica Kincaid's essay A Small Place! This is a work about colonialism, an...
- Nov 16, 2020
- 2 min
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
It has almost been two weeks since I finished reading Naked Lunch and I am still not sure what to make of it. Therefore, the following is...
- Nov 16, 2020
- 3 min
È Stato Così di Natalia Ginzburg
(english version below) È Stato Così di Natalia Ginzburg (pubblicato da Einaudi, 1947) è il primo libro della scrittrice dopo la fine...
- Oct 31, 2020
- 1 min
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
After loving Half of a Yellow Sun, I was eager to read more of this wonderful, intelligent woman who made me fall in love with Nigeria...
- Oct 29, 2020
- 1 min
Justice in a Changing World by Cécile Fabre
Justice in a Changing World is an introduction to the philosophical debate surrounding the question of global justice - what do we owe to...
- Oct 24, 2020
- 2 min
Atonement by Ian McEwan
On a hot summer day in 1935, imaginative thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis watches her older sister undress and step into a fountain in...
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