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155 reviews

End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

informative tense

5.0

Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution by Sheila Jeffreys

huge bummer and inconsistent logic. the terf manifesto does not work with intersectional feminism, predictably!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

You or Someone You Love: Reflections from an Abortion Doula by Hannah Matthews

5.0

Contact by Carl Sagan

5.0

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

dark tense

5.0

Larger than an Orange by Lucy Burns

dark emotional reflective

this is such a personal story of the gulf between politics and emotion. i don’t connect to it, though. i can’t relate.

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Martin J. Sherwin, Kai Bird

5.0

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption by Katy Kelleher

4.5

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze

informative slow-paced

5.0

absolutely i am now convinced all the ills of the world today are rooted in the 2008 crisis (and subsequent eurozone crisis in the 2010s)

Preloved by Lauren Bravo

emotional hopeful

5.0