The New Black
10 best books like The New Black (Evie Shockley): Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, The Parisian, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement, A Sand Book, Don't Call Us Dead, If They Come for Us, Something Bright, Then Holes, Trances of the Blast, Hurlyburly, Maybe the Saddest Thing: Poems
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing.
“By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it’s exactly the book America needs at this moment.”—Celeste...
| Author | Isabella Hammad |
| ISBN | 1473547679 |
As the First World War shatters families, destroys friendships and kills lovers, a young Palestinian dreamer sets out to find himself.
Midhat Kamal picks his way across a fractured world, from the shifting politics of the Middle East to the dinner tables of Montpellier and a newly tumultuous...
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
| Author | Jodi Kantor |
| ISBN | 0525560343 |
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and abuse for the New York Times, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movement
For many years, reporters...
| Author | Ariana Reines |
| ISBN | 0986437360 |
A Sand Book is a poetry collection in nine parts, a travel guide that migrates from wildfires to hurricanes, tweety bird to the president, lust to aridity, desertification to prophecy, and mother to daughter. It explores the negative space of what is happening to language and to consciousness...
| Author | Danez Smith |
| ISBN | 1555977855 |
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten...
Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being a Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America, while exploring identity, violence, and healing.
In this powerful and imaginative debut poetry collection, Fatimah Asghar nakedly captures...
| Author | Maggie Nelson |
| ISBN | 1933368802 |
Maggie Nelson's fourth collection of poems combines a wanderer's attention to landscape with a deeply personal exploration of desire, heartbreak, resilience, accident, and flux. Something Bright, Then Holes explores the problem of losing then recovering sight and insight -- of feeling lost,...
| Author | Mary Ruefle |
| ISBN | 1933517735 |
"One of the wisest books I've read in years, and it would be a shame to think that only poets will read it."—David Kirby, The New York Times Book Review, on Madness, Rack, and Honey
"What a civil, undomesticable, and heartening poet is Mary Ruefle . . . any Ruefle poem is an occasion of resonant...
A bunch of drug-fueled guys ramble through their idiot's philosophy while abusing women and failing to make it work in 1980s Hollywood. With the right actors, this could be at turns funny and horrifying. It seems kind of long to me, but I'd have to see it staged to judge for sure, perhaps its the kind of play...
Maybe the Saddest Thing: Poems
| Author | Marcus Wicker |
| ISBN | 0062191020 |
Chances are, if you don't know about the clock-wearing, public enemy, Flavor Flav and how his lyrics contributed to the campaign against police brutality in America, you won't enjoy this collection.
You hosed down whole crowds
in loudmouth flame-retardant spit.
If you haven't been...
Contradictions in the Design
| Author | Matthew Olzmann |
| ISBN | 1938584279 |
I don't remember what link I saw that led me to this lovely book, but I wish I did so I could go back and say thank you. These are poems that are profound and available at the same time. The poet offers images that are complex, yet he doesn't settle for being obtuse; instead, he reaches for resonance--and gets...
| Author | Clarice Lispector |
| ISBN | 8532508731 |
You can find the 'newer' cover edition with the same ISBN here.
A simplória personagem Lucrécia, de 'A cidade sitiada', docemente desprovida de raciocínio e/ou de consciência, é alma gêmea de Macabéa, que muitos já viram na versão cinematográfica 'A hora da estrela'. Lucrécia...
