by Priscilla Settee (Editor)
★★★½
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The Ungrateful Refugee
by Dina Nayeri
★★★★½
This Place: 150 Years Retold
Alicia Elliott (Foreword)
★★★★½
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
by Crystal Marie Fleming
A brilliant, affirming, clear, and concise primer on antiracism.
Notes: I wouldn’t equate being bullied for wearing ‘ridiculous’ Pentecostal garb with Islamophobic aggression, nor imply that headscarves represent nothing but religious oppression. Crystal also seems to have a grudge against the idea of an immigrant work ethic … Read more
The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of the World’s Food Supply
by Marie-Monique Robin
It’s understandably a challenge to distil a colossal amount of research into a flowing document. Also the author’s Frenchness seeps through in regular reminders, including when she cannot refrain from commenting on how well colonised the tongues are of the Vietnamese doctors and scientists she interviews.
It is … Read more
Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne
by Olympe de Gouges
Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution’s Women
Allison Pataki (Foreword)
★★★★
Celia’s Song
by Lee Maracle
★★★
We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America
by D. Watkins
★★★★★
The Deep
by Rivers Solomon
★★★
The Witches Are Coming
by Lindy West
Her comedy stylings are not for me. There’s also a noticeable void of anti-pseudoscience condemnation in the Goop chapter. But even when she introduces her searing dissections of global political misdirection via the prism of sappingly irrelevant subcelebrities, Lindy West is still a cultural force.
Dreaming of Elsewhere: Observations on Home
by Esi Edugyan
★★
My Conversations with Canadians
by Lee Maracle
★★★★
What the Eagle Sees: Indigenous Stories of Rebellion and Renewal
by Eldon Yellowhorn, Kathy Lowinger
★★★★
Lent
by Jo Walton
★★★★★
L’Oiseau et la lame
by Megan Bannen
★★½
Heavy: An American Memoir
by Kiese Laymon
★★★½
The Souls of Yellow Folk
by Wesley Yang
He’s got his finger on the wrong pulse, the putrid blob of bro culture and anti-pc dinosaurs. This is a fremdscham-inducing collection of clunky essays that are a long decade old, none of them written specifically for this book. The slivers of interrogation related to the title … Read more
Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser
★★½
All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body
by Dani Burlisson (Editor)
★★★½