Melymbrosia

10 best books like Melymbrosia (Virginia Woolf): This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, How to Be Both, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Virginia Woolf: A Biography, Diving Into the Wreck, Virginia Woolf, The Feral Detective, An Atlas of the Difficult World, I Never Called It Rape

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

Author	Naomi Klein
ISBN	1451697384

Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon – it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better.

In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of...

How to Be Both

Author

Ali Smith

Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith’s novels are like nothing else. A true original, she is a one-of-a-kind literary sensation. Her novels consistently attract serious acclaim and discussion—and have won her a dedicated readership who are drawn...

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Author	Audre Lorde
ISBN	0895941228

in college, in the late 80s and early 90s, i discovered that i had two aunts. this is one (and this is another). aunt Audre intimidated me at first. she was a stern, moody, melancholy woman who had lived a life of so many ups and downs. but as i got to know her, her innate gentleness became clear. this was a woman...

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Author	Audre Lorde
ISBN	0895941414

A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde's intellectual development and her deep-seated and longstanding concerns about ways of increasing empowerment...

Virginia Woolf: A Biography

Author	Quentin Bell
ISBN	0156935805

Virginia Woolf was the fiercely brainy and extremely posh girl I would have been far too shy to even dream of speaking to, had I been around then.

But, in an alternative slipstream of history, it turned out that I was alive at the time, and blow me down, there she was in the Smoke Room at the Old Butcher's...

Diving Into the Wreck

Author	Adrienne Rich
ISBN	0393311635

With language as clinically apocalyptic and claustrophobically dystopic as anything to be found in the postmodern nightmares of Ballard and DeLillo, Diving Into the Wreck rages against the heteronormative status quo as Rich points her poetic finger at men and women, both of whom bear the burden of...

Virginia Woolf

Author	Hermione Lee
ISBN	0375701362

While Virginia Woolf--one of our century's most brilliant and mercurial writers--has had no shortage of biographers, none has seemed as naturally suited to the task as Hermione Lee. Subscribing to Virginia Woolf's own belief in the fluidity and elusiveness of identity, Lee comes at her subject from...

The Feral Detective

Author	Jonathan Lethem
ISBN	0062859080

Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer in the desert outside of Los Angeles. She's on a quest to find her friend's missing daughter, Arabella, and hears that Heist is preternaturally good at finding people who don't want to be found. A loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer,...

An Atlas of the Difficult World

Author	Adrienne Rich
ISBN	0393308316

XIII (Dedications)

I know you are reading this poem
late, before leaving your office
of the one intense yellow lamp-spot and the darkening window
in the lassitude of a building faded to quiet
long after rush-hour. I know you are reading this poem
standing up in a bookstore...

I Never Called It Rape

Author	Robin Warshaw
ISBN	0060925728

Robin Warshaw clearly outlines date/acquaintance rape in this book, funded by the Center for Antisocial and Violent Behavior of the National Institute of Mental Health and executed under the banner of Ms. Magazine. While a bit dated (published first in 1988), this book captures the emergence of date/acquaintance...