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Regarding the Pain of Others

Susan Sontag · 2013

<p><b>A brilliant, clear-eyed consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture--its ubiquity, meanings, and effects.</b><br> <i><br> Considered one of the greatest critics of her generation, Susan Sontag followed up her monumental </i>On Photography <i>with an extended study of human violence, reflecting on a question first posed by Virginia Woolf in </i>Three Guineas<i>: How in your opinion are we to prevent war?</i><br><br> <i>"For a long time some people believed that if the horror could be made vivid enough, most people would finally take in the outrageousness, the insanity of war."</i><br><br> One of the distinguishing features of modern life is that it supplies countless opportunities for regarding (at a distance, through the medium of photography) horrors taking place throughout the world. But are viewers inured—or incited—to violence by the depiction of cruelty? Is the viewer’s perception of reality eroded by the daily barrage of such images? What does it mean to care about the sufferings of others far away?<br><br> First published more than twenty years after her now classic book <i>On Photography</i>, which changed how we understand the very condition of being modern, <i>Regarding the Pain of Others</i> challenges our thinking not only about the uses and means of images, but about how war itself is waged (and understood) in our time, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience.</p>

Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin · 2012

In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documentaries like I Am Not Your Negro bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes of a Native Son serves as a valuable introduction. Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength through the words of one of the most captivating essayists and foremost intellectuals of that era. Writing as an artist, activist, and social critic, Baldwin probes the complex condition of being black in America. With a keen eye, he examines everything from the significance of the protest novel to the motives and circumstances of the many black expatriates of the time, from his home in “The Harlem Ghetto” to a sobering “Journey to Atlanta.” Notes of a Native Son inaugurated Baldwin as one of the leading interpreters of the dramatic social changes erupting in the United States in the twentieth century, and many of his observations have proven almost prophetic. His criticism on topics such as the paternalism of white progressives or on his own friend Richard Wright’s work is pointed and unabashed. He was also one of the few writing on race at the time who addressed the issue with a powerful mixture of outrage at the gross physical and political violence against black citizens and measured understanding of their oppressors, which helped awaken a white audience to the injustices under their noses. Naturally, this combination of brazen criticism and unconventional empathy for white readers won Baldwin as much condemnation as praise. Notes is the book that established Baldwin’s voice as a social critic, and it remains one of his most admired works. The essays collected here create a cohesive sketch of black America and reveal an intimate portrait of Baldwin’s own search for identity as an artist, as a black man, and as an American.

Heart of Darkness and Other Tales

Joseph Conrad · 2008

The Wander Society

Keri Smith · 2016

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey · 2007

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Italo Calvino · 1981

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens · 2003

The Stranger Albert Camus

Albert Camus · 2021

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1994

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens, GP Editors · 2017

Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte · 2002

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge Classics)

Judith Butler · 2006

Righting My World Essays from the Past Half-Century

Dennis Altman

Madonna in a Fur Coat

Sabahattin Ali · 2021

The Sea, the Sea

Iris Murdoch · 1978

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami · 1997

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Carson McCullers · 1958

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin · 1964

The Road

Cormac McCarthy · 2007

East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

John Steinbeck · 1952

On the Calculation of Volume I

Solvej Balle · 2025

Fifteen Dogs

André Alexis · 2015

Virginia Woolf

Alexandra Harris · 2011

The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd · 2003

The MANIAC

Benjamin Labatut · 2024

Rest and Be Thankful

Emma Glass

Foster

Claire Keegan · 2022

The Swan Thieves

Elizabeth Kostova · 2010

Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes · 2000

A Pale View of Hills

Kazuo Ishiguro · 1990

20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth

Xiaolu Guo · 2021

A Dog's Heart

Mikhail Bulgakov · 2019

Troubling Love

Elena Ferrante · 2006

The Hole

Hiroko Oyamada · 2020

The Sandcastle

Iris Murdoch · 1978

Small Country

Gaël Faye · 2018

The Reformatory

Tananarive Due

The Color of Law A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein · 2018

Passing

Nella Larsen · 2003

Heaven

Mieko Kawakami · 2022

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini · 2018

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

Mary Shelley · 2018

The Pearl

John Steinbeck · 1993

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin · 2013

Burmese Days A Novel

George Orwell · 1962

The Last Sane Woman

Hannah Regel · 2024

Perfume The Story of a Murderer

Patrick Suskind · 2001

The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)

Henri Alain-Fournier · 2007

Moon of the Crusted Snow A Novel

Waubgeshig Rice · 2018

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan · 2021

Song of Solomon A Novel

Toni Morrison · 2004

The Moustache

Emmanuel Carrère · 2020

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)

Leo Tolstoy · 2008

The Thirty-Nine Steps Authorised Edition

John Buchan · 2011

Beloved

Toni Morrison · 2007

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney · 2018

The Moon and Sixpence

W. Somerset Maugham · 1919

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre · 2000

The Grass Harp

Truman Capote · 1993

The Beauty of Everyday Things

Soetsu Yanagi · 2019

If Cats Disappeared from the World

Genki Kawamura · 2018

Ex-Wife

Ursula Parrott · 2023

The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)

Dante Alighieri · 2003

Princesses of Darkness and Other Exotica

Jean Lorrain · 2021

Tender Is the Flesh

Agustina Bazterrica · 2020

<b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER</b><br> <br><b>Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore.</b><br><br>His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.<br> <br>Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English A Novel

Noor Naga · 2022

The Book of Disquiet

Fernando Pessoa · 2001

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Clarice Lispector · 2023

The Hole

Hiroko Oyamada · 2020

Baby Driver

Jan Kerouac · 2025

The Book of Disquiet

Fernando Pessoa · 2002

Fat City

Leonard Gardner · 2015

The Hearing Trumpet

Leonora Carrington · 2021

The Clown

Heinrich Böll · 1994

The Loser

Thomas Bernhard · 2010

The Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison · 1965

The Doors of Perception

Aldous Huxley · 1970

A Hundred Years and a Day 34 Stories

Tomoka Shibasaki · 2025

War of the Foxes

Richard Siken · 2015

The Right to Be Lazy

Paul Lafargue · 2022

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

Matsuo Basho · 1967

The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly

Sun-mi Hwang · 2013

A Storm of Swords

George R. R. Martin · 2002

Raiders, Rulers, and Traders The Horse and the Rise of Empires

David Chaffetz · 2025

Of Strangers and Bees

Hamid Ismailov · 2019

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 2012

Kokoro

Natsume Soseki · 1996

Stargazer

Laurie Petrou · 2022

Small Boat

Vincent Delecroix · 2025

Confessions of a Mask

Yukio Mishima · 2017

Big Kiss, Bye-Bye

Claire-Louise Bennett · 2025

Checkout 19

Claire-Louise Bennett · 2022

The Unbearable Lightness of Being A Novel

Milan Kundera · 1999

We’ll Prescribe You a Cat

Ishida Syou · 2024

Blue

Derek Jarman · 2023

Beware of Pity

Stefan Zweig · 2006

The Wandering Border

Jaan Kaplinski · 1992

To a God Unknown

John Steinbeck · 1995

Three Lives

Gertrude Stein · 1990

Spartacus

Lewis Grassic Gibbon · 2009

No Longer at Ease

Chinua Achebe · 2011

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka · 2009

Light in August

William Faulkner · 2011

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

James Weldon Johnson · 1990

Women Without Men

Shahrnush Parsipur · 2012

Paradise Rot

Jenny Hval · 2023

The Copenhagen Trilogy Childhood; Youth; Dependency

Tove Ditlevsen · 2021

Social Creature

Tara Isabella Burton

My Husband A Novel

Maud Ventura · 2023

The Wretched of the Earth

Frantz Fanon · 1963

A Lover’s Discourse

Xiaolu Guo

The Expert of Subtle Revisions

Kirsten Menger-Anderson · 2025