The New Inquiry 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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Vogue: The Editor's Eye: A History of Fashion Photography
Conde Nast
Aurelia Guo on the history of Conde Nast. Guo shows that "high-end glossy" magazines like Vogue and Vanity Fair were designed to socially reproduce the ruling class https://t.co/rTwl7Mia7E https://t.co/f0JyJ8wUol
Hardcover, 2012
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We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
Lou Sullivan
"I’ve tried to learn to live without affection, but I can feel it eating me from inside." From "We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, 1961-1991," edited by @zachozma and Ellis Martin https://t.co/9FG6z0bAok
Paperback, 2019
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Andreas Malm
Andreas Malm, author of “How to Blow up a Pipeline,” on what the climate movement can learn from the George Floyd Uprising https://t.co/K4S36pICzh https://t.co/Nhlqrx4pPc
Paperback, 2021
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
World of Interiors
Aurelia Guo
In an excerpt from Aurelia Guo’s new book, World Of Interiors, Guo looks at the eighties. Through an analysis of migration, Anna Nicole Smith, and post-Brexit England, Guo asks how we went from “the glossy years” to “the getting-by years.” https://t.co/MklgsQ67O8
Paperback, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Romance or the End: Poems
Elaine Kahn
"When I tell myself a story / I decide the end." An interview with Elaine Kahn on her most recent book, "Romance or the End" https://t.co/5iIb2pVTW6
Paperback, 2020
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Once a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West
Ethan Lou
“Thoughts of mining enveloped me like a fever” writes Ethan Lou, author of Once a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West. Crypto memoirs are addiction memoirs in tech clothing https://thenewinquiry.com/champagne-wishes-and-crypto-dreams/
Paperback, 2021
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Woman Running in the Mountains
Yuko Tsushima
"A woman lies in bed in a large maternity ward. She’s just risen from a dream, and it overflows from sleep to tint her waking perceptions." In our latest, @_gabrielfine_ looks at "Woman Running in the Mountains" by Yūko Tsushima https://t.co/7wMaBcd9XW
Paperback, 2022
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The Butterfly Jungle
Diriye Osman
"I really wanted The Butterfly Jungle to have the energy of a super-fly Somali sheesha session" Diriye Osman interviewed by Sofia Samatar https://t.co/TQ9CL7bjq8
Hardcover, 2022
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On the Inconvenience of Other People
Lauren Berlant
"On the Inconvenience of Other People" by Lauren Berlant is out now from @DukePress https://t.co/HwZUpbjoOi
Paperback, 2022
$25.95$12.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America
Xine Yao
In Not Feeling It editor Charlie Markbreiter interviews Xine Yao, author of Disaffected (2021). Together they make an intervention in the white washing of Trans Studies dissociation discourse. https://t.co/AQL6MVNKlE
Paperback, 2021
$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book