Dissent Magazine Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Severance
Ling MaDissent Magazine"Ling Ma might be best known as the writer who predicted COVID-19. During the start of lockdown, many readers fixated on how Severance had captured, with uncanny realism, the surprisingly mundane experience of living in a pandemic under late capitalism." https://t.co/kyqReVlwkv
Paperback, 2019
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
On the Line: Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union
Daisy PitkinDissent MagazineDaisy Pitkin’s On the Line is one of the best books ever written about American trade unionism, @gabrielwinant writes. https://t.co/vgknJrywq1
Paperback, 2023
$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Freud: The Mind of the Moralist
Philip RieffDissent MagazineIn the latest episode of @KnowYrEnemyPod, @HZeavin and @re_colston help @MatthewSitman and @SamAdlerBell navigate Philip Rieff, Freud, and the conservative underbelly of psychoanalysis. https://t.co/e80ISqrKAK
Paperback, 1979
$29.00Member price:$29.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Plain Style
Christopher LaschDissent MagazineIn Plain Style, Christopher Lasch showed that we can render even the most iconoclastic demands in common speech. https://t.co/7JKn7CTYfj
Paperback, 2002
$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
Elizabeth D. SametDissent MagazineElizabeth Samet’s Looking for the Good War is the latest in a trickle of literature exploring how our collective historical memory of the Second World War has been falsified to enshrine the destructive myth of America’s heroic exceptionalism. https://t.co/lfU9G5xvdx
Paperback, 2022
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Life of the Mind
Christine SmallwoodDissent MagazineWith Christine Smallwood's THE LIFE OF THE MIND and Lynn Steger Strong’s WANT, adjunct fiction feels like it has finally arrived, even if its subjects have not. https://t.co/GaayW48QZI
Paperback, 2022
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Crossroads
Jonathan FranzenDissent Magazine"What is arresting about the drama of Jonathan Franzen's Crossroads," @krevinlorenzo writes, "is how it grants this middling family almost world-historical importance." https://t.co/1ODKiwXLgX
Paperback, 2022
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump
Edward-Isaac DovereDissent MagazineIn our Fall 2021 issue, @daschloz reviews Edward-Isaac Dovere's Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Trump. https://t.co/VV61kgHITz
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Harold Rosenberg: A Critic's Life
Debra Bricker BalkenDissent MagazineIn many accounts of the New York intellectuals, the prolific critic Harold Rosenberg seemed to fall through the cracks. Debra Bricker Balken’s biography reclaims him for the pantheon. https://t.co/oL2hV79zRZ
Hardcover, 2021
$43.00Member price:$40.85 + Free shipping5% off
Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity
Paisley CurrahDissent MagazinePaisley Currah’s Sex Is as Sex Does raises questions about efforts to achieve equal recognition under laws that sanction repression and inequality. https://t.co/kPwSwKRUl8
Paperback, 2024
$19.95Member price:$19.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)