Summer Reads 2022 - Summer
August 4, 2022

This summer has been full of new & exciting reads for me! Here are some that I really enjoyed, and/or am eagerly looking forward to devouring :)
Too Good to be True - Cliff Cardinal

Too Good to be True
Cliff Cardinal
From the acclaimed author of Huff & Stitch comes a new dark comedy about the lies we tell each other in order to make...
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
Rashid Khalidi
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through...
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A Minor Chorus
Billy-Ray Belcourt
An urgent first novel about breaching the prisons we live inside from one of Canada’s most daring literary talents.An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished...
More InfoMoldy Strawberries - Ciao Fernando Abreu
Ciao Fernando Abreus prose is rich and full. Though these stories are short in length, each one immerses you - places you deep in a world, a character and a psyche. The existential tones of his writing make the ruminations of his characters universal, though his prose is crafted in specificity. His words are at once careful and reckless. It has been a long time since I read a collection of short fiction that was this engaging and well crafted. A note - I would call this work beautiful and deep, but not light. It does deal with some heavy themes and topics!

Moldy Strawberries
Caio Abreu
Caio Fernando Abreu is one of those authors who is picked up by every generation. Surreal and gripping stories about desire, tyranny, fear, and love,...
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Decolonial Marxism
Walter Rodney
A previously unpublished collection of Rodney's essays on Marxism, spanning his engagement with of Black Power, Ujamaa Villages, and the everyday people who put...
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Acting Class
Nick Drnaso
A brilliant and suspenseful follow-up to the Booker-nominated graphic novel Sabrina. "Every single person has something unique to them which is impossible to re-create,...
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Fresh Banana Leaves
Jessica Hernandez
An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that...
More InfoRehearsals for Living - Robyn Maynard & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Rehearsals for Living
Robyn Maynard, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most important contemporary thinkers, writers and activists.When the world entered...
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Symptômes
Catherine Ocelot
Dans cette quatrième bande dessinée, Catherine Ocelot s’interroge sur les empreintes laissées par les mots, sur ce qui rend malade et ce qui guérit,...
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The Con Artists
Luke Healy
A quintessentially millennial tale about friendship and the quest for self-actualization A quintessentially millennial tale about friendship and the quest for self-actualizationThis is going...
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The Choreography of Everyday Life - Annie-B Parson

The Choreography of Everyday Life
Annie-B Parson
A renowned choreographer explores the dance of everyday life and reveals that art-making is as natural as walking down the street In this sparkling,...
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Designing Disorder
Richard Sennett, Pablo Sendra
Rethinking the open cityPlanners, privatisation, and police surveillance are laying siege to urban public spaces. The streets are becoming ever more regimented as life...
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I must admit as a sapphic and lover of Modernism I'm a bit of a Virginia Woolf fan girl, but did you know that during their lifetimes Vita was actually regarded as a more successful literary figure, and that she played a big role in encouraging Virginia to pursue her literary career? Always happy to unwind with some good past century sapphic letters.

Love Letters: Vita and Virginia
Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf
Delve into a legendary literary love affair'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the...
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