Checking this out! I don't read fast but I am consistent :D
For work I read a lot of scientific papers so sadly I don't have too much energy to come home and read much of the political stuff that is still on my wish list. So there will probably be quite a lot of (science) fiction ...
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"Can a song trigger a murder? Can a poem spark a riot? Can a book divide a people? Away from …
Angela Carter: The passion of new Eve (1977, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
The Passion of New Eve is a novel by Angela Carter, first published in 1977. The book is set in …
This is a coming of age story about a Zaza (Eastern Anatolian culture) child in the Netherlands tackling the intricacies of having an immigrant background and an abusive father in a poverty stricken neighbourhood during the late 80s early 90s heroin crisis. And yes, it's as dire as it sounds but simultaneously, it is just so nice to read a book about this neighbourhood where I also lived at that time (though in much better circumstances than the main character) which highlights the good with the bad -and- lays the blame where it's supposed to be, with the government who let the area down from its inception, rather than placing it (like all the media did at the time) with the residents. Much love for this book for that reason.
James Scott, recognized worldwide as an eminent authority in Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies, tells the story of the …
Recommended to me through this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRTu2Su6HKI&t=29
Very interesting.
The most famous work of Japanese literature and the world's first novel—written a thousand years ago and one of the …
Apparently the first proto-scifi ever written
Fatema Mernissi, the world-renowned Islamic feminist, has shed unprecedented light on the lives of women in the Middle East, in …
Fatema Mernissi, the world-renowned Islamic feminist, has shed unprecedented light on the lives of women …
I highly recommend this book by a renowned Moroccan feminist and sociologist to anyone who considers themselves a feminist and also to anyone who might have preconceived notions about Islam and feminism. I feel it has aged well (2001). It was written in a very personal and easy to read way and it has a playfulness & storytelling quality to it which I don't think you find a lot in academic works. I so rarely get exposed to critiques of the western form of patriarchy from the perspective of a non-western feminist who also isn't living in a western country. Very unique read for me and am certainly interested in reading some of her other works at some stage.
he lantern light seems to have written a poem; they feel lonesome since i won’t read them. —“lantern” by Fei …
Ecoceanic: Southern Flows encompasses writing from the coastal regions of Africa, the Arabian Sea, the …
Excited to read this as soon as I can buy it from somewhere that's not amazon
"Can a song trigger a murder? Can a poem spark a riot? Can a book divide a people? Away from …
Fatema Mernissi, the world-renowned Islamic feminist, has shed unprecedented light on the lives of women in the Middle East, in …
