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
No Thanks: Black, Female, and Living in the Martyr-Free Zone
by Keturah Kendrick
For essays about rejecting motherhood and Christianity and about living abroad, this collection was surprisingly unresonating. There’s also an unnecessary and specific march of ‘this is what tools of the patriarchy would say’. Keturah confronts cultural confines except for those that work for her, with a blind spot … Read more
Bastard Out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
★★★½
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
by Toni Morrison
At least three works in a row are variations of the same essay on globalism. The introduction on the power of art is trenchant. The rest I skimmed were meandering, dense, and glancing, even when I wanted them to pierce me. The repetition and lack of notes of … Read more
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
by Ali Wong
★★★★
Surviving the City
(Surviving the City #1)
by Tasha Spillett, Natasha Donovan (Illustrations)
★★★½
From the Ashes
by Jesse Thistle
Jesse’s writing is magnetic and his story’s intense. Facing racism and bullying and dropping out of school in grief is the faint overlap I’ve lived. I thought about when a friend from Turkey told me that he was never bullied growing up—because the school system was so oppressive … Read more