Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
I read this book when I was young, in my early twenties and I found the book bewildering. I had no frame of reference for the character’s struggle. By that time I had read about the struggles of black people but from the perspective and…
Duchamp, love and death, even by Juan Antonio Ramirez
I have lost track of how many books I have read on Marcel Duchamp but it is approaching double digits. To say that I am obsessed with him is an understatement. He has changed my life by providing a channel, a groove, a way of…
The Lives of Fungi by Britt Bunyard
This beautiful volume which makes fungi look sexy and intriguing was a guilty purchase. It is both a coffee book with its beautiful photos and also encyclopedic covering how they reproduce, the nature of their chemistry, the various categories including saprobes, parasites, pathogens and how…
The Benjamin Files by Fredric Jameson
Last year I read Benjamin’s ‘One-Way Street’ and understood only a fraction of it. I had read Jameson’s ‘Postmodernism’ which while stimulating was a difficult slog and when I saw ‘The Benjamin Files’ I grabbed it. I’m not sure what made me turn to a…
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
I knew this as a film rather than a book but recently a friend and I picked this to read together. It was published seven years ago but the hangover of the financial collapse of 2008 feels very present. Did we think that was the…
On Death & Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
This book wasn’t at what I was expecting. I thought it would a clinical, analytical description of the five stages of death; denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. This is the lingering legacy of the book. But the actual book is much more than that….
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