Summer Reads 2021 - Catherine
June 24, 2021

C'est déjà le temps des listes de lectures d'été! Comme à l'habitude, il y a beaucoup trop de livres qui m'intéressent, la pile sur ma table de chevet est énorme. Voici les livres récents que j'ai lus et aimés, ceux que je suis en train de lire et ceux que j'ai envie de lire.




Postcapitalist Desire
Mark Fisher
A collection of transcripts from Mark Fisher's final series of lectures at Goldsmiths, University of London, in late 2016.Edited and with an introduction by...
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Real Estate
Deborah Levy
From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the highly anticipated final installment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed "living autobiography"...
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Organic Music Societies
Lawrence Kumpf
Archival documents and new writings on the intermedia collaborations of avant-garde jazz trumpeter Don Cherry and textile artist Moki CherryDon Cherry and Moki Karlsson...
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Post-Growth Living
Kate Soper
An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life.The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked...
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A Little Devil in America
Hanif Abdurraqib
A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times bestselling author of Go Ahead in the Rain“Whether heralding unsung entertainers or reexamining legends,...
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Horror Stories
Liz Phair
The two-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter behind the groundbreaking album Exile in Guyville traces her life and career in a genre-bending memoir in stories about the pivotal moments that...
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NISHGA
Jordan Abel
From Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel comes a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastating autobiographical meditation that attempts to address the complicated legacies of...
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Pollution is Colonialism
Max Liboiron
In Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or against colonialism. They point out...
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Postcolonial Astrology
Alice Sparkly Kat
Tapping into the political power of magic and astrology for social, community, and personal transformation.In a cross-cultural approach to understanding astrology as a magical...
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Terminal Boredom
Izumi Suzuki
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Thrillist, The Millions, Frieze, and Metropolis JapanThe first English language publication of the work of Izumi...
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Butter Honey Pig Bread
Francesca Ekwuyasi
Longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize An intergenerational saga about three Nigerian women: a novel about food, family, and forgiveness. Butter Honey Pig...
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L'Anomalie
Hervé Le Tellier
En juin 2021, un long-courrier débarque à New York après de fortes turbulences. A son bord se trouvent des centaines d'hommes et de femmes...
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Les carnets du crocodile
Miaojin Qiu
A Taipei à la fin des années 1980, Lazi, étudiante en art, est attirée par un camarade plus âgé qui s'acharne à souffler le...
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Slipping
Mohamed Kheir
There are shards of magic to be found on every page of this novel.” —Omar El Akkad, author ofAmerican WarA struggling journalist named Seif...
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Book of the Little Axe
Lauren Francis-Sharma
ABOOKLIST EDITOR’S CHOICE BOOK OF THE YEARAmbitious and masterfully-wrought, Lauren Francis-Sharma’sBook of the Little Axe is an incredible journey, spanning decades and oceans from...
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Vernon Subutex T.1
Virginie Despentes
Vernon Subutex, ancien disquaire à la dérive, compte sur Alex Bleach pour l'aider à payer ses factures. Quand celui-ci meurt d'overdose, Vernon est expulsé...
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My Begging Chart
Keiler Roberts
?One of comics? preeminent humorists.??The AV Club Keiler Roberts mines the passing moments of family life to deliver an affecting and funny account of...
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Shadow Life
Hiromi Goto
Poet and novelist Hiromi Goto effortlessly blends wry, observational slice-of-life literary fiction with poetic magical realism in the tender and surprising graphic novelShadow Life,...
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Sweet Time
Weng Pixin
Sweet Time is an intimate rumination on love, empathy, and confidence. Singaporean cartoonist Weng Pixin delicately explores strained relationships with a kind of hopefulness...
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Wake
Rebecca Hall
Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall’s efforts...
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And Now I Spill the Family Secrets
Margaret Kimball
In the spirit of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Margaret Kimball’s AND NOW I SPILL THE...
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