Jennifer Wilson 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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Jennifer Wilson writes for The New York Times Book Review. contributing essayist @nytimesbooks | PhD in Tolstoyevsky | adjunct prof CUNY @newmarkjschool | Email: jen.louise.wilson @ gmail
Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik
Winston JamesJennifer WilsonFor @DissentMag I reviewed The Making of a Black Bolshevik, a new biography of the poet Claude McKay. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-proletarian-poet
Paperback, 2022
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea, and the Shipwreck of the Titanic
Daniel StoneJennifer Wilson…the science writer Daniel Stone explores the public’s fascination with sunken ships and what attempts to resurrect the Titanic, an emblem of wealth and power, say about whose memories are allowed to sink and whose we refuse to let drown.
Hardcover, 2022
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Chilean Poet
Alejandro ZambraJennifer WilsonHappy to see the prolific translator Megan McDowell included among the nominees for the @nationalbook Award in Translated Literature. I wrote about her translation of Alejandro Zambra's Chilean Poet earlier this year. https://t.co/LIfxDWSqdy https://t.co/lfTX5Bl5Hr
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Taiga Syndrome
Cristina Rivera GarzaJennifer WilsonThe taiga the detective finds is not a repository for the myths we tell about remote places; it is, rather, a broken landscape, torn asunder by deforestation, extraction capitalism and the illegal enterprises set up to serve men in the logging industry.
Paperback, 2018
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Long Island Compromise
Taffy Brodesser-AknerJennifer WilsonBrodesser-Akner is a keen observer of class aspiration as a survival method... Writing about money is Brodesser-Akner’s bread and butter.
Hardcover, 2024
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lucky Breaks
Yevgenia BelorusetsJennifer WilsonReaders looking for clarity about the political factions and internal divisions that led to the conflict will find instead hazy dream sequences, witchcraft, a woman who loses the ability to walk in Maidan Square and jokes, “I am a living monument.”
Paperback, 2022
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Big Swiss
Jen BeaginJennifer WilsonI loved Big Swiss, a sexy romantic comedy about mental health, class, and the incredible feeling of finding someone who's messed up in exactly the same way as you. My review for @nytimesbooks: https://t.co/W7NgxzGZhm
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Heart Goes Last
Margaret AtwoodJennifer WilsonAtwood understands that abusive men are not motivated by sex, but by the desire to inflict harm on real women, who don’t need to be programmed with a numerical scale to know that they’re hurting.
Paperback, 2016
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Women Talking
Miriam ToewsJennifer WilsonFor @newrepublic I reviewed Sarah Polley's astounding new film Women Talking, a movie that asks us to consider how much the legal system has impacted the genre expectations we impose on women's stories. https://t.co/oJEljq6asP
Paperback, 2020
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
Franz KafkaJennifer Wilson"For Kafka, the relationship between word and world was symbiotic: literature was an appendage to life, but life was flat and senseless without the embellishments of literature." - Becca Rothfeld https://t.co/SCU87aSUlB
Hardcover, 2023
$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book