Francisco Cantú Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Francisco Cantú

Two reverberant histories were @nickwestes' "Our History is the Future," chronicling unbroken lineages of indigenous resistance, and @karl_jacoby's "Crimes Against Nature," which reveals how criminalization precedes "wilderness." https://t.co/HeTMgjx3CJ https://t.co/2Dei5GgOWE

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One of the strangest and most haunting books I read was "Border" by @Kapka_Kassabova, about the liminal mountains and river valleys at the crossroads of Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece—an ever-shifting borderland that teems with ancient mystery. https://t.co/Mdjp1nocnw

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Also check out Cristina Rivera Garza's TWO newly-translated books published earlier this year: THE RESTLESS DEAD (trans by @robin_ep_myers ): https://t.co/7eOfe38zPb And the long-overdue classic GRIEVING (trans by @sarahkbooker): https://t.co/FSi9dLI438

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A belated HAPPY PUB DAY to @daisypitkin and her beautiful debut ON THE LINE from @AlgonquinBooks. A deeply personal, lyric, and urgent look at the soul of the modern labor movement and what it truly means to build solidarity. Pick a copy up today! https://t.co/ZPiJieqqRg

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Each day I read a corresponding entry from Eduardo Galeano's "Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History." Reading in this way, the book invites you to tap into the temporal resonance and lingering residue of historical joys and injustices. https://t.co/ACPFAzI0Jp

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"Speak, Okinawa" by Elizabeth Miki Brina was my favorite memoir published in 2021, offering deeply observed and lyrically rendered language for grappling with how cultural power and historical erasure seeps into our families and re-orders our identities. https://t.co/jC27bjvdrw

Francisco Cantú

Also check out Cristina Rivera Garza's TWO newly-translated books published earlier this year: THE RESTLESS DEAD (trans by @robin_ep_myers ): https://t.co/7eOfe38zPb And the long-overdue classic GRIEVING (trans by @sarahkbooker): https://t.co/FSi9dLI438

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And finally, I caught up on a classic that I'd long been remiss in reading: Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior," which is surely one of the most stunning blendings of memoir and myth that's ever made it to the page. https://t.co/Z9fHtKM1sY

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Maria Stepanova's "In Memory of Memory" is one that truly floored me, a stunning hybrid of memoir, criticism, and lyric history, in the vein of Sebald, Nabokov, Rivera Garza, and other greats. https://t.co/fjUbU93rlB

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My review of @TobarWriter's OUR MIGRANT SOULS in @nytimesbooks, a resonant meditation on the many meanings of "Latino": https://t.co/OpolDnK4vH

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