Gather your gossips
Talk is power.
Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
Silvia Federici
Following the threads from the witch hunts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to present-day gendered violence, Silvia Federici shows how—then as now—such oppression is not only a tool of capitalism but a critical component of it.
Undiscovered
On Scott’s Against the Grain & The Steerswoman
Scott’s Against the Grain
James C. Scott
Like another book with the same name, James C. Scott’s Against the Grain argues that the “just so” story of humans’ progression from barbarians to civilized agriculturalists is not the success story we might have thought.
Dry Land
B. Pladek
In the woods of Wisconsin, a young forester named Rand Brandt learns that he can grow any plant he imagines in minutes, merely by touching the dirt.
Move at the speed of trust
On Being Wrong & Emergent Strategy
Toward inquiry
On Being Wrong
Being Wrong
Kathryn Schulz
Kathryn Schulz posits a vision of wrongness as both the inevitable human condition and a generative source from which creativity, art, brilliance, risk-taking, and so much more arises.
A Half-Built Garden
Ruthanna Emrys
Judy Wallach-Stevens is woken one night to a warning about pollutants in the nearby Chesapeake Bay. With her wife and newborn in tow, she heads out to see what’s up—and ends up making first contact with a group of friendly aliens.
Radio noise
On The World of Silence
The World of Silence
Max Picard
“Silence is not simply what happens when we stop talking. It is more than a mere negative renunciation of language; it is more than simply a condition we can produce at will.”
God Went Like That
Yxta Maya Murray
In the middle of the last century, a research and development complex in California’s Simi Valley experienced multiple near-catastrophic accidents, leaking radiation and other toxins into the surrounding communities.
Treacle Walker
Alan Garner
“Ragbone! Ragbone! Any rags! Pots for rags! Donkey stone!”
The Absolute Book
Elizabeth Knox
When the murderer of Taryn Cornick’s sister is himself murdered just days after his release from prison, detective Jacob Berger is certain she has something to do with it.
Against Technoableism
Ashley Shew
“Technoableism is a belief in the power of technology that considers the elimination of disability a good thing, something we should strive for.”
The Saint of Bright Doors
Vajra Chandrasekera
In the seconds after Fetter is born, his mother kills his shadow.
The Language of Power
Rosemary Kirstein
In the fourth and as yet final book of the Steerswoman series, Rowan and Bel return to Donner, where they last barely escaped an attack of dragons.
The Lost Steersman
Rosemary Kirstein
Rowan arrives in Alemath, at the steerswomen’s Annex, searching for information.
The Outskirter’s Secret
Rosemary Kirstein
The second book in the extraordinary Steerswoman Series follows Rowan and her companion, Bel, as they venture into the outskirts: a dangerous, inhospitable land marked by few sources of food and panoply of monsters intent on killing the humans who dare to live there.
A unified theory of fucks
Where to give all your precious fucks.