Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry
7 best books like Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry (Essex Hemphill): Flights, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Women, Race, and Class, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Friday Black, Cristallisation Secrète
| Author | Olga Tokarczuk |
| ISBN | 0525534199 |
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE
From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration...
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
| Author | Andrea Lawlor |
| ISBN | 0986086991 |
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul’s also got a secret: he’s a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from...
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
| Author | Eric A. Stanley |
| ISBN | 1849350701 |
Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the enormity of the prison industrial complex. The first collection of its kind, Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current and former prisoners, activists, and academics...
| Author | Angela Y. Davis |
| ISBN | 0394713516 |
Incisive and concise, Women, Race, and Class charts the history of racial and gender oppression in America. In lucid prose Angela Davis breaks down how misogyny, racism, and classism have shaped the character of the nation’s social life from the Antebellum Era to the Sixties. She pays special attention...
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
| Author | Adrienne Maree Brown |
How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism,” a politics of healing...
| Author | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah |
| ISBN | 1328911241 |
In the stories of Adjei-Brenyah’s debut, an amusement park lets players enter augmented reality to hunt terrorists or shoot intruders played by minority actors, a school shooting results in both the victim and gunman stuck in a shared purgatory, and an author sells his soul to a many-tongued god.
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| Author | Yōko Ogawa |
| ISBN | 2742788298 |
L’île où se déroule cette histoire est depuis toujours soumise à un étrange phénomène : les choses et les êtres semblent promis à une sorte d’effacement diaboliquement orchestré. Quand un matin les oiseaux disparaissent à jamais, la jeune narratrice de ce livre ne s’épanche pas...
