Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

6 best books like Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature (Elizabeth Hardwick): Lanny, I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution, The Undying, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography, A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories, Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto

Lanny

Author	Max Porter
ISBN	0571340288

There’s a village sixty miles outside London. It’s no different from many other villages in England: one pub, one church, red-brick cottages, council cottages and a few bigger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might do anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and...

I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

Author	Emily Nussbaum
ISBN	0525508961

From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize–winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.

From her creation of the first “Approval Matrix” in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize–winning...

The Undying

Author

Anne Boyer

Award-winning poet and essayist Anne Boyer delivers a one-of-a-kind meditation on illness in the age of data—sharing her true story of coping with cancer, both the illness and the industry, in The Undying.

A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed...

The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

Author

Deborah Levy

A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy.

To strip the wallpaper off the fairy tale of The Family House in which the comfort and happiness of men and children has been the priority is to find behind...

A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories

Author	Margaret Drabble
ISBN	0547550405

Margaret Drabble’s novels have illuminated the past fifty years, especially the changing lives of women, like no others. Yet her short fiction has its own unique brilliance. Her penetrating evocations of character and place, her wide-ranging curiosity, her sense of irony—all are on display...

Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto

Author	Aaron Bastani
ISBN	1786632624

A different kind of politics for a new kind of society--beyond work, scarcity and capitalism

In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury...