Jia Tolentino
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Jia Tolentino is a Canadian-born American writer and editor. She is a staff writer for The New Yorker. She has previously worked as deputy editor of Jezebel and a contributing editor at The Hairpin. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine and Pitchfork.
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A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged exploration of the psychological condition of being Asian American, by an award-winning poet and essayist Asian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status: neither white enough nor black enough, unmentioned in most conversations about racial identity. In the popular imagination, Asian Americans are all high-achi...
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2020-03-06T00:00:00.000ZAlso recommended by
Celeste Ng"More than just a story of an abiding cultural preoccupation, The Longing For Less peels back the commodified husk of minimalism to reveal something surprising and thoroughly alive." -Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing "Thoughtful and absorbing . . . A superb outing from a gifted young critic that will spark joy in many readers." - Kirkus Rev...
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2020-01-27T00:00:00.000ZIn the afternoon or early evening of June 25, 1980, two young women, Vicki Durian and Nancy Santomero, were killed in an isolated clearing in rural Pocahontas County West Virginia. They were hitchhiking to an outdoor peace festival known as the Rainbow Gathering, but never arrived. Their killings have been called “The Rainbow Murders.”For thirteen ...
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2020-01-22T02:26:09.000ZAlso recommended by
Lulu MillerAn Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2020This unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existenc...
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2020-01-20T23:25:31.000ZThe prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital ageIn her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener—stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial—left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New Yor...
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2020-01-09T14:07:52.000Z“The Gimmicks is a gorgeous epic that astounds with its scope and beauty. With empathy and humor, McCormick unravels the ties between brotherhood and betrayal, love and abandonment, and the fictions we create to live with the pain of the past. This novel will blow you away.” —Brit Bennett, New York Times bestselling author of The MothersSet in the ...
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2020-01-07T15:18:18.000ZEverything you have been told about creativity is wrongFrom line managers, corporate CEOs, urban designers, teachers, politicians, mayors, advertisers and even our friends and family, the message is “be creative’. Creativity is heralded as the driving force of our contemporary society, celebrated as agile, progressive and liberating. It is the spri...
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2019-10-10T21:45:49.000ZThe riveting, powerful memoir of the woman whose statement to Brock Turner gave voice to millions of survivors. She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statemen...
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2019-09-30T21:22:52.000ZWhen the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death.With The Testaments, the wait is over.Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female ...
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2019-09-05T00:00:00.000ZAlso recommended by
Guy KawasakiIn the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister pas...
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2019-08-03T00:00:00.000ZLie With Me by Philippe Besson
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Severance by Ling Ma
Motherhood by Sheila Heti
Lot by Bryan Washington
The Word Pretty by Elisa Gabbert
Made for Love by Alissa Nutting
Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang
Afterglow by Eileen Myles
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J. K. Rowling
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
Who Is Rich? by Matthew Klam
Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
Slow Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz
Barbara the Slut and Other People by Lauren Holmes
Barbarian Days by William Finnegan
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
Love and Other Ways of Dying by Michael Paterniti
Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins
Tapping the Source by Kem Nunn
Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg