Uncollected Poems

6 best books like Uncollected Poems (Rainer Maria Rilke): Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, How the Mind Works, The Dharma Bums, Bluets, Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Author	Jia Tolentino
ISBN	0525510540

Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly in a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Jia writes...

How the Mind Works

Author	Steven Pinker
ISBN	0393318486

In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, does for the rest of the mind what he did for language in his 1994 book, The Language Instinct. He explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy...

The Dharma Bums

Author

Jack Kerouac

Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, and "yabyum" in San Francisco's Bohemia, to solitude in the high Sierras and a vigil atop Desolation Peak in Washington State. Published just a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation...

Bluets

Author	Maggie Nelson
ISBN	1933517409

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color...

A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant...

Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook

Author

Alice Waters

The long-awaited memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters recalls the circuitous road and tumultuous times leading to the opening of what is arguably America's most influential restaurant.

When Alice Waters opened the doors of her "little French restaurant"...

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

Author	Nicholas Carr
ISBN	0393339750

“Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net’s bounties, are we sacrificing...