Reading

Books: on balance, I'm for them. These are most of the ones I've read since 2007 or so. The star ratings correspond more closely to "how worth my time this felt" than "how good this is."
2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007

December 25 Then and Now: Safe House Short Stories
Simone Haysom, Beatrice Lawmaka, Neema Komba, and Chike Frankie Edozien ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
December 20 The Border of Paradise
Esmé Weijun Wang ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
December 19 Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law, Second Edition
Staughton Lynd, Daniel Gross ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
November 28 The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Esmé Weijun Wang ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
November 20 The Stone Sky
N.K. Jemisin ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
November 15 Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation
Brian Massumi ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
October 25 The Obelisk Gate
N.K. Jemisin ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
October 19 An Ugly Truth
Sheera Frenkel ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
October 12 Necropolitics
Achille Mbembe ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
September 26 The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
September 10 The Ant King and Other Stories
Benjamin Rosenbaum ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
August 28 Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism
Seyward Darby ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
August 07 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (2nd ed.)
Charles C. Mann ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
July 23 Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
Giorgio Agamben ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
July 03 Veronica
Mary Gaitskill ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
July 03 The Precariat: The Dangerous New Class
Guy Standing ✪ ✪ 
June 19 The Belly of Paris
Émile Zola ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
June 18 The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
June 13 The_Future_is_Now / Neon_Rising (v2.3)
Josan Gonzalez ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
June 12 Cruel Optimism
Lauren Berlant ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
May 22 The Kill: La Curée
Émile Zola ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
May 15 Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times
Jasbir K. Puar ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
April 18 Under the Rainbow
Celia Laskey ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
April 17 Autonomous
Annalee Newitz ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
April 10 The Fortune of the Rougons
Émile Zola ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
April 02 Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About American Law, 5th Edition
Jay M. Feinman ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
March 14 Black in Place
Brandi Thompson Summers ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
February 09 The Overstory
Richard Powers ✪ ✪ 
February 03 Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto
Legacy Russell ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
January 30 The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
January 24 Blockchain Chicken Farm
Xiaowei Wang ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
January 16 The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019
ed. Carmen Maria Machado ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 
2021 total: 32