Books I’m Reading 2025

New American Bible.

Kier-La Janisse, House of Psychotic Women: an Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films.

H.S. Cross, Amanda.

Mohammed Khair-Eddine, Scorpionic Sun.

Richard Sennet, The Corrosion of Character: the Consequences of Work under the New Capitalism.

Maria Medem, Land of Mirrors.

Delphine Horvilleur, Living with Our Dead.

Hilary Plum, State Champ. You must read this incredible, riveting, pitch-perfect novel on the dignity and nobility of protest.

Helen Vendler, The Odes of John Keats.

Susan Choi, Flashlight. Disappointed by this one.

Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus.

Bei Dao, Sidetracks.

Cixin Liu, The Dark Forest.

Joel Sternfeld, American Prospects: Photographs.

Merrill Gilfillan, Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue: Selected Poems.

Diane Radycki, Paula Modersohn-Becker: the First Modern Woman Artist.

Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork.

Gilles Deleuze, Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life.

A. Roger Ekirch, At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past.

Merrill Gilfillan, Red Mavis again.

Zach Savich, A Field of Telephones.

The Poems of Octavio Paz (ed. Eliot Weinberger).

Hilary Plum, Important Groups.

Fida Jiryis, Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family’s Story of Home.

Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women (ed. Jane Hirshfield).

Wadih Saadeh, A Horse at the Door: Poems (tr. Robin Moger).

Sophie Strand, The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Divine Masculine.

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power (ed. Mark Godfrey and Zoé Whitley).

Refaat Alareer, If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose.

Putsata Reang, Ma and Me.

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