The Baffler 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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The Iliad
HomerThe BafflerThe poets who followed Homer wove their verse in the manner of “The Iliad”—but never came close to its stature in Suleiman Al-Bustani’s view: “They drew water from its sea, and their own seas grew full, but they never exhausted their source.” https://t.co/Pzrw065ID5
Paperback, 2024
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The Silentiary
Antonio Di BenedettoThe BafflerAfter being overlooked for decades, Antonio Di Benedetto’s “Trilogy of Expectation” has been hailed as a masterpiece. @cementeriocc considers the work of the Argentine novelist upon the translation of “The Silentiary.” https://t.co/OLpfFgvnY4
Paperback, 2022
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Geek Love
Katherine DunnThe BafflerKatherine Dunn’s recently-rediscovered novel overflows with themes that readers will recognize from her cult classic, “Geek Love”—the inner lives of outsiders, the frustrating innocence of adulthood. https://t.co/pYOuQXDtcB
Paperback, 2002
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Woman: The American History of an Idea
Lillian FadermanThe BafflerLillian Faderman’s new feminist history sets out to chronicle the story of how American women fought for their rights, reinvented themselves, and then began to auto-destruct. @reproutopia reviews “Woman” in our latest issue: https://t.co/jWCfp2AZR1
Paperback, 2023
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Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--And How to Think Deeply Again
Johann HariThe BafflerIn Johann Hari’s “Stolen Focus,” our perpetual distraction is recast as a crisis of productivity. But as @lyta_gold asks, what exactly is being produced? And for whom? https://t.co/TyQ2CKFqky
Paperback, 2023
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The Well of Loneliness
Radclyffe HallThe BafflerIt’s hard to imagine now how radical “HERmione” was for its time. H.D. finished the fictionalized account of her bisexual love triangle in 1927, a year before an obscenity trial ordered all copies of Radclyffe Hall’s “The Well of Loneliness” destroyed. https://t.co/ZGrhQYDqod
Paperback, 2024
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Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club)
Claire KeeganThe BafflerClaire Keegan’s novel “Small Things Like These” evokes a small-town Ireland where tea and sweet cake conceal a history of institutional abuse. https://t.co/4BCGNuNOnR
Hardcover, 2021
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Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
Jeremiah MossThe BafflerJeremiah Moss’s “Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York” claims political life can be arrived at by cleverly adjusting the parameters of politics. Do not mistake this for “liberation”—no matter what the subtitle says. https://t.co/Y7tN0WMFlX
Hardcover, 2022
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The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker
Jack SkelleyThe BafflerJack Skelley’s “The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker” really isn’t about Kathy Acker. But her stream of genre recombinations was certainly a key inspiration for Skelley’s mad romp through 1980s Los Angeles. https://t.co/3pAItooZTS
Paperback, 2023
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: The Creation of Gothic Architecture: An Illustrated Thesaurus. the Ark of God [2 Volume Set]: The Evolution of Foliate Capitals in the Paris Basin: Th, John James](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780975742525.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709844562)
The Creation of Gothic Architecture: An Illustrated Thesaurus. the Ark of God [2 Volume Set]: The Evolution of Foliate Capitals in the Paris Basin: Th
John JamesThe BafflerWho was John Brown? In our latest issue, Willis McCumber considers the radical abolitionist’s legacy in history, fiction, and historical fiction, paging through the books of James McBride, Truman Nelson, and W. E. B. Du Bois (among others). https://t.co/Ek7h7IJZwj
Hardcover, 2008
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